Monogram Presentation!

After all the different monogram-related tasks, it's finally time to present our work!

first monogram display

Ms. Lisa said the arrangement looked a bit sparse so I changed it slightly.


good tips: you don't always have to arrange cups vertically, and you can overlap things!

helo

the final layout, yay! it kinda looks like I'm selling my own merchandise haha

a group photo with some of my classmates :]

Monograms: A2 Posters + Display!

Some progress photos of the A2 monogram poster.

the beer board I bought was slightly bigger than A2, so I had to cut it to size

drawing borders for my print; I wanted some negative space since my design is just one big monogram printed onto cardboard.

I printed this on an A3 card, and cut the black lines to make another big stencil/shape for my cardboard print.

Finished cutting the shapes!

I then pasted the shapes on a piece of corrugated cardboard. 

putting it in place roughly before I print it!

I was deciding on a colour scheme so I did this quickly in Illustrator. In the end I decided to use the pink and blue colours.

 An unfortunate thing happened to my cardboard print. Since I used acrylic paint for my print, when I pressed the papers together I left it for too long and the paint got stuck to each other. So when I took it out, some of the pieces of cardboard came out :/ But I managed to save it by carefully re-painting the pink parts, and it turned out kinda okay! It makes it look kinda grungy to me. Ms. Lisa says it gives it a nice texture, heheh.

I decided to display both the final A2 print and also the flipped cardboard print together. My overall colour scheme is blue, white, black, with an accent of pink.

Monograms: A2 Poster Research

For the next step in our monogram designs, we have to make an A2 sized poster out of our monograms using the techniques we experimented with in the previous week. We were given the freedom to choose any medium we liked, while utilising our understanding of compositions, and rule of thirds

The technique I decided to use was monoprinting, and to be specific cardboard printing! It's interesting to experiment with since the corrugated cardboard gives it a unique texture.

Examples of cardboard prints:

Also, I found some tutorials on cardboard printing here and here.

Monograms: preparing stencils & products

After we finalising our monograms, we have to print our designs onto different things.

I made a list of possible things I could monogram on before deciding (the final few items are bolded):

And then I proceeded to prepare a few items before we stencil our monograms in class!

before spraypaint

after first coat of spraypaint

after 2nd coat of spraypaint


3rd coat

used masking tape on my book to protect it from the paint

Different monogram sizes!

I have a total of 4 different sizes for my monograms. I printed out the design first, and used it as a base to cut over my plastic sheets.

the tiniest monogram

cutting this out was quite difficult :']

note to self: don't use paint markers for stencils because iT WILL BLEED ):

secured it with tape so that the plastic won't move

the paint marker bled really badly so it didn't turn out so good

the "negative shapes" of the stencil

yay stencils!

the mess I made on the floor trying to spraypaint my book

I still wasn't too happy about my stencils so that day in class, I decided to re-do them on tracing paper in different sizes. I thought it would be more convenient since I'll be stenciling on some curved surfaces and the tracing paper is more flexible.

the pencil boxes, before monogram

placing the stencil...

I used black fabric paint and a sponge! It turned out pretty well :D

And here are all my products so far!