Print Liberation

Founded in 1999, Print Liberation is a Philadelphia based creative visual agency and the collective endeavor of three artists who share a passion for print, design, and culture. Working at the intersection of art, design and commerce, offering non traditional concepts and a unique vision.
Print Liberation with Luren Jenison show you how to start screen printing today using the most basic elements—a screen, some emulsion in a bucket, artwork, a light source and a sink. With your burned screen, a squeegee and some ink, you can print any image onto anything you feel like printing. While screen printing can be unpredictable, with some helpful tips and troubleshooting from the Print Liberation, you’ll soon be able to print on the bottom of a ship in a hurricane
I chose this image off their website as I thought it was a really good idea to get people experimenting with screen printing, I love the simplistic informative design of the book which suggests that its easy to have a go and you don't need a big studio with dedicated apparatus, which opens screen printing up to the someone just interested in having a go in their spare time, and people wanting to have a go seriously. I'm definitely going to get one ordered! (why not!)


While having a gander in Print Liberation's website I came across these images, I like these because you can't beat little inspirational quotes, and I definitely agree with 'life is what you make of it.' I like the way the illustration and type link together to form the overall picture with the thumbs up or down is a great touch suggesting life can be either way, but its what you make of it (life.) The way I see it is, anyone's glass can be either half full or half empty the choice ultimately is up to yourself. The other three images I find intriguing because of where they are placed, the environment I get from the pictures is there not in a wealthy area, where people probably have plenty of opportunities available to them already. The pictures have alot more power in the environment they have been taken in.

Julien Van Havere

As a student coming back into HE from working a good few years I found it invigorating but daunting to have so much freedom:(I'd of had a right bollocking if I'd decided that the oak framed house at £600,000 looked more contemporary if it had triangular windows and roof! it just wasn't a option we worked off plans, done!) Sometimes having lots of options available can make me feel lost. I'm just starting to explore and experiment with the wide array of techniques and programs out there, so I can relate to Juliens' notebook on his website www.sevendaysmakeaweek.com, he describes it as a 'daily exercise existing to help me develop my creativity everyday' and 'I publish this exercise to increase creativity, personal accountability and to share this with you.' I definitely think that I would come on as a graphic designer a lot quicker both conceptually and visually by coming up with some similar exercise for myself.

Here's a few examples of Juliens work.

Ice Cream For Free

We're going to be experimenting with black and white media, and i thought these logos by ICFF (ice cream of free, based in Berlin) looked the business! I think it just goes to show that even with all the image manipulation available today often the simplest of forms and type have a real impact, and can stand out better than a heavily manipulated photoshop or illastrator image in the right context.




More ICFF work for a Berlin based PR agency 'Check Your Head' Logotype, identity and website. Again I love the simplicity of these, especially the business card how its colours are reversed, simple yet I think really effective as I wouldn't be able to stop flipping it between my fingers.



More by ICFF, I couldn't resist these images of fliers, These really do deserve a place on your bedroom wall unlike the overwhelming amount of fliers I get shoved in my face on the way to and from college.

My first attempt at still frame animation

Well here we go!

I'm not the most technical of graphic design students so I've decided to post some of my experimental work up here an see how my computer skills progress over the year, amongst the body of graphic design I plan on pilfering from just about anywhere I can find inspiration, (trying to stay on the right side of the law.)

So this piece of work came really from not wanting to stand up in front of a group, and I have no idea how to work powerpoint! So a stop frame animation was on the cards, the brief was a 2 minute presentation of our summer work, (mine was the vowel 'O' and pick 10 facts about it.) I thought I'd start with this, as its my first time I've attempted a stop frame animation, I cant tell ya how much fun it was right from the start, taking the pictures wondering how it was all going to turn out! to messing around with the music and trying to make it all sync. Mind you I'd be lying if I didn't say that turning off the Ken Burns on all the bloody frames was tedious, (must find an easier way for that.)

Later on in the week I was scanning through the Metro on my train ride to college (forgive me I was really bored!) and I found what I thought was a little gem. An exhibition in Bradford, at Impressions Gallery www.impressions- gallery.com there seems to be a fair lot going on all over Leeds and Bradford check out the website. The exhibition I caught was Composure: Lumen HD Short Film Commissions. There were eleven new short films by artists from the region exploiting the detail of HD and exploring the tension between the still photograph and the moving image, which i thought could be interesting and come in handy after loving the stop frame animation. Unfortunately i couldn't get any pictures of inside but i thought it was an interesting building very contemporary inside and out, I think Bradford is having a lot of regeneration going on at the moment. (which isn't a bad thing!)