Oscar Hunter Dudley









Printing
processes poster















– Project name

Printing processes poster

– Role

Poster designer
Illustrator
Photographer

– Date

Winter 2024

– Specs

Abobe InDesign
Adobe IllustratorFor the creation of this poster I joined a group within my class. We were given the opportunity to choose a printing process; we chose wide format and contour cutting. The purpose of this poster was to educate the younger generations on the processes and inspire them to explore them in the future; we primarily achieved this by using muted colours.






Prior to designing I ensured I collected research from primary sources. I achieved this by visiting my department’s (Typography & Graphic Communication) in-house printing team CPS (Creative Print Services). I took photographs of the printer and it’s process of pritning out a sheet of stickers with my camera.




Design

Illustration 01



This was the process of illustrating the truck segment of the poster; I felt that a truck would be the first most effective way of representing the wide format printing process as the graphics on the side of them are instantly associated with being large.





Illustration 02



This was the process of illustrating the tube element of the poster; I felt that the next most notable example of wide format printing would be in the form of advertising. Users of public transport, specifically the metro—in this case the tube—would be easily be able to associate advertisements present inside of underground tube stations with large formats as they are present infront of every platform inside of the underground network.





Illustration 03




To build on the connections advertising has with wide format printing I decided that the next best way of communicating an example of it’s use would be through the fronts of shops. In this example it was a bakery advertising it’s sale of cakes.



Illustration 04




As a group we came to an agreement that an illustration of a printer should be the focal point of the poster due communicate it’s purpose as quickly as possible as I learnt it represents both printing and contour cutting by visiting CPS, watching their printer cut out stickers after printing them.



Poster



This is the final poster. We intergrated all of the illustrations into sectors of the poster to replicate a sticker-sheet effect. To further this, we utilised negative space by copying the silouhette of the ‘stickers’ and filling it with white conveying the effect of a sticker being pulled off it.