What is design for Print? Task 1

During today's lesson we got put back into the groups we were in for the presentation task and were given 2 tasks to complete, the first question we were given was. 

What is design for print?

In our group we discussed what we thought could go on this list, there was a such a broad range of answers that we thought it was, but below is the list we devised:

1. Physical products ( anything to go on stock ) 
2. Books, magazines, leaflet 
3. CMYK, consider changes from screen 
4. Layout/compositon, font size, legibility 
5. Promotion, distribution, inform, advertise 
6. Consider quantity, cost 
7. Consider scale, billboards, CD packaging 
8. What median 
9. What is it for? Purpose/Audience 
10. Resolution
11. Image (and/or) Type 

Whilst creating this list Lorraine came round and asked us what we thought laser cutting would come under in terms of print, within our group we thought that it would come under design for print because it produced something that made a mark on a material just like any other printing method would, it also uses the same process as other printing methods. 

Phil then pondered us with the question 'can you explain what design for print is in one sentence?'. 

As a group we thought that it is possible, but its hard to go into much detail without changing it from a sentence to a paragraph, the explanation is very vague but is yet understandable. 

Heres what our group came up with: 

'Design for print is a range of design processes and considerations that ultimately lead to a printed physical outcome'.


Next we were asked to come up with as many ways of printing that we knew.    

1. Foiling 
2. Screen print
3. Vinyl cut
4. Engraving
5. Monoprint
6. Lino cut
7. Thermology (raised printing)
8. Letterpress
9. Embossing 
10. Spot varnish
11. Intaglio
12. Woodblock
13. Digital print
14. lasercut
15. Reprogrpahics
16. 3D printing 
17. Heat transfer 
18. lithography

Although i want to try as many of these processes as possible if i had to choose 3 it would be, to do more screen-printing, to look into embossing and spot varnishing. 

Screenprint

examples

Embossing

examples

Spot Varnishing

We then got set a task to find examples of of relevant design for print with a given word. 
The words that we were given are format, colour, production, processes, finishing, stock.


Format

Magazine

Embossing

Inkjet printing

Large format advertising 

Spot Varnish 

Colour 


Tuskor 3D

Lea Munsch

Embossing

 Screenprint

Production



Foiling

Laser cut 

Finishing 

Letterpress

Foiling 

Stock

Glass

Tshirt

Bags