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Posteress https://ift.tt/3o4nvtx Posteress is the artistic alter ego of Angelina Severino, a graphic and brand designer based in Amsterdam. Since studying Graphic Design in Minsk, Angelina has worked as an Art Director in international advertising agencies creating visual concepts for brands including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Finlandia, and Yamaha. After more than a decade in advertising, her professional focus now lies in Brand Identity and Digital Product Design. In her artistic practice Angelina transforms graphic design tools such as graphic elements, colour blocks, and typography into abstract and minimalistic poster art. “My main inspiration is my professional frustration with the general attitude to graphic design,” says Angelina. All the years that she worked in advertising, Angelina saw graphic design being used solely for the practical, utilitarian purpose of creating an image that sells; “It has always raised all kinds of questions for me: why don’t I see graphic design works in museums? Why are posters not seen as art pieces? Why are traditional visual arts such as painting or sculpture more valuable than digitally created design artworks?” With her artistic practice she aims to show that graphic design is not just a functional tool for boosting sales. Angelina’s poster project declares graphic design as an independent, self-sustainable art form in which she researches and structures human hopes, dreams, illusions, and desires. Born and raised in Russia before the fall of the Soviet Union, Angelina’s art is influenced by the radical, revolutionary approach of Russian Constructivism and Soviet design. She explains; “While most of the visionary work of Soviet designers remained unrealised, their innovative bold experiments and the dream of creating a new world continue to inspire, stimulate and attract designers all over the world, including myself. Russian Constructivists urged “Be a poster! Advertise and project a new world.” (Disk manifesto, 1923). This idea still resonates with me and keeps me going.” Angelina’s work always begins by considering the message, asking herself; “what exactly do I intend to say with my new poster?”. She states; “I guess it’s in my DNA as a graphic designer and in the nature of the medium (poster) to transform messages into visuals and try to predict what a person who looks at them will feel and think”. Angelina usually starts with sketching some ideas in her notebook, and then works on the final look of the poster in Adobe Illustrator. The next step is to actually materialise the poster by printing it out. After initially trialling different print houses to process her orders, in order to ensure the best quality, Angelina then started up her own in-house printing studio. She purchased a large format HP’s flagship Giclée printer and Hahnemühle’s award-winning ecological Bamboo paper; “This combination of a high printing resolution, pigment archival inks and a premium inkjet coating paper creates museum quality art prints that have incredible vivid colours and last for more than 100 years without losing their gorgeous look”. Each poster is hand-printed with personal quality control over the process and final product, and then hand-packaged by Angelina. Every order includes a set of cotton gloves for the unpacking and handling of the poster! This year, Angelina hopes to create more one-of-a-kind mixed media hand-finished posters. Thus far, she has produced 3 mixed media canvases, each entirely hand-made and created with various materials such as acrylic paints, paper tape, spray paints, volcanic pumice stone, charcoal, bubble wrap, and markers. The creation of these works was big learning curve for the designer; “It took so much time and nerves to produce them, because any mistake or slip-up would have been catastrophic and would have destroyed the whole artwork. So in the future I will be taking a different approach: I will be Giclée-printing a part of the poster including all the outlines and texts, and will hand-finish the other parts with paint, markers or any other materials. This way I believe the final artwork will only win in quality, and more than that – the Giclée-printed part will be incorporated in the mixed media technique, which makes me really happy as I’m a big lover of printing.” Creating her own printing studio has inspired Angelina to start her own Giclée printing business aimed specifically at artists. “I realised that I’m not the only artist who has trouble having their artworks printed with top quality and sent to their customers in branded packaging,” comments the artist. As a professional designer, she hopes to make the online ordering process as user-friendly and flawless as possible, and of course, creating a brand identity for her own company is a “world of fun and pleasure”! Angelina concludes; “I think I would never be able to separate my professional design career from my artistic practice – they are closely interwoven by how they stimulate and inspire each other. Also I’m always very happy to switch between different kinds of activities that require totally different approaches but simultaneously belong to the same field of the visual arts.” www.posteress.com Printing via People of Print https://ift.tt/2DhgcW7 January 27, 2022 at 04:00AM
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U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet Feb. 8 https://ift.tt/3KKuly8 WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors will meet Feb. 8, 2022, in open session at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET in the Benjamin Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items: Printing via USPS News https://ift.tt/2hH9aDC January 26, 2022 at 01:03PM USPS salutes legendary sculptor Edmonia Lewis https://ift.tt/3G5iur0 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today celebrated the life and legacy of Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition, as the 45th honoree in the Black Heritage Stamp series during a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Printing via USPS News https://ift.tt/2hH9aDC January 26, 2022 at 11:38AM Carbon’s Next Gen 3D Printers Smoother and Faster with 4K Light Engine https://ift.tt/3AygyGh It’s been a few years since Carbon introduced a new 3D printer, as the M2 was launched in 2017 and the L1 came in 2019. But, today, the 3D printing... The post Carbon’s Next Gen 3D... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 26, 2022 at 11:27AM Quantum Computing Boosted by Nanoscribe’s New Microscale 3D Printer https://ift.tt/3KNiG1G Quantum computing may get a boost from 3D printing via Nanoscribe, a subsidiary of Swedish-based bioconvergence startup BICO (BICO.ST). At this year’s Photonics West Exhbition (January 25-27),... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 26, 2022 at 08:33AM Photocentric Expands with New 3D Printer, Materials, and Partnerships https://ift.tt/3IBq8eg Photocentric is the inventor of, and leader in, 3D printing based on LCD screen technology. Based in Cambridgeshire, UK and Arizona, US, the company has a patent in visible light... The post... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 26, 2022 at 08:03AM Redefine Meat Picks up $135M to Expand 3D Printed Fake Meat Production https://ift.tt/3AwJ7ns One of the leading manufacturers of 3D printed alternative meat products, Redefine Meat, has raised $135 million to further its vision of transforming the food system and meeting the growing... The... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 26, 2022 at 07:33AM 3D Printing News Briefs, January 26, 2022: Metals, Video Game Controllers, & More https://ift.tt/3rMcDSe We’re talking about metal 3D printing first in this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs, with pure copper powder that can be processed with SLS technology and the latest material for... The... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 26, 2022 at 07:03AM
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Oficina Loba https://ift.tt/3H342AR Oficina Loba is a screenprinting studio founded in 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, by illustrators Gonçalo Constanza and Gonçalo Duarte. The duo shared a passion for screenprinting, and decided to name their practice ‘Loba’ meaning ‘She Wolf’ in Portuguese as a reference to the creation of Rome, with the two brothers Romulus and Remus being fed by a she-wolf. “It can sound a bit pretentious but we both wanted to create something really special. Loba sounded like the perfect name.” In November 2020, Gonçalo Duarte left the studio. Today, Gonçalo Constanza runs the studio as a one-man-band by taking care of all the creative directions, choosing artists to collaborate with, and taking charge of the day-to-day running of the studio. Gonçalo first learnt to screenprint during his MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. “Being such a versatile technique with a wide range of different applications attracted me at first. So during my masters my favourite days of the week were the ones that I could spend printing,” describes the printmaker. Loba specialises in screenprinting on both paper and textiles. Besides producing their own prints, Gonçalo also prints work for other artists on commissioned projects. “Our business model is quite different from other studios here in Portugal. You can find people printing just on paper or on textile, but not many doing both as in Loba. Besides that we do both individual and group workshops, now on stand-by for Covid reasons,” says Gonçalo. Recently, he has been exploring printing patterns on flat pieces of fabric, and then building beautiful shirts and dresses. He explains; “It is definitely something that I’m excited to continue doing, even though it’s a really difficult process. That is another differential element of Loba which makes me really proud.” The studio is also where Gonçalo showcases his illustrative work. His works are all drawn by hand before working on the colours and preparing the images for print on Photoshop. He takes a different creative approach for posters and t-shirts. For posters he works monotonously and in detail, and for t-shirts he simplifies his drawings. However, whatever he is designing, there is always a surrealistic element to it. Gonçalo hopes to keep on promoting screenprinting as a unique printing technique, surprising his audience with unexpected prints and apparel. He concludes; “I want Loba to be the place for both big and smaller artists to find a platform to showcase their talent”. @oficina.loba Printing via People of Print https://ift.tt/2DhgcW7 January 26, 2022 at 06:26AM Kornit Digital Buys Tesoma, Expanding Digital Textile Production https://ift.tt/3rLe0AJ Israeli firm Kornit Digital (NasdaqGS: KRNT) is fast becoming a leader in digital fashion, digital textiles and the on demand production and printing of garments. The firm has previously... View the entire article via our website. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://3dprint.com January 25, 2022 at 09:39AM |
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