better late than never...

prints

decided to try our hand in the screen print game...

our first run...

austin

took a short road trip to austin...met some friends, took some pictures, saw some art.

first we hit up the lombardi gallery for scions installation show.
a whole slew of great artists...

here are a few random shots.









the next day we took a stroll through town and spotted this faile piece...
saw the gold case covers at parts and labour...
a huge poster hit featuring our friend 'failure'

more buttons...

restocked at turntablelab.com

so, issue two is officially stocked at turntable lab.
just add it to your cart and they will send it with your order (for free)
if you haven't got a chance to check out their site, your in for a treat.
they are on the ball with... vinyl, clothes, rare books & mags, computer/dj equipment, movies, design tidbits...blah blah.

turntablelab.com

we are excited to see the mag next to some people we really respect.

in the studio with failure

Got this from failures blog. Thought it was rad (studio shots are always fun). Posted it here.

The man put in some serious time with these jackets, and documented the whole thing thing for our reading/viewing pleasure. Everyone thank failure.


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I just recently finished an interview with the dudes from Case Magazine.

I hand printed 200 jacket sleeves for the issue release. Each one was 7"x22" when unfolded. It is available in three colorways:

Pink Case logo & Black Gloss Failure logo - 150 numbered, not signed

Silver Case logo & Black Gloss Skulls - 25 numbered, not signed

Gold Case logo & Black Gloss Skulls - 25 signed & numbered

The pink & silver editions are available @ Domy Books in Houston and other random locations, as well as www.turntablelab.com. The gold editions are available for sale ($20)through me directly, & I will take them with me when I attend this year's Flatstock show.(www.flatstock.com)

It took a couple of days to print all of them, the actual art work was laid out in 3"x4" panels directly on the screen after the white layer was printed.
setting up the films onto the screen. the light overhead is a 40 watt bug light, so it wont expose the emulsion. after this is done, i lay the screen horzontal against a black panel, and expose the image with a 1500 watt work light for 5-12 minutes, depending on the weather, how old the emulsion is, wether or not there is any fine details, and mesh color.(as you can see, i pefer the yellow)
washout time. I start on the side that touches the paper, and then finsh rinsing until the iamge area clears on the squeegee side. anytime i meet anyone who has done actual commercial printing freaks out when i tell them how i expose and wash the screens. "real" screen printers wash the paper side with a pressurewasher. but they also wonder how i always have such small halftones in my work....
taping off, and getting ready to go...
the first layer of one of the runs. in took 600-650 individual pulls to hand print the 200 three color covers.

proofing, and then back to printing. no vacum table, just a little spray adhesive, and some register clips
starting the black layer. still along way to go...
proofing the black. i originally wanted to do just a straight gloss coat for the background. it only worked on some nicer, much more expensive paper, not on the card stock i ended up using. so i improvised, and added some acrylic gloss to a high gloss, water based enamel house paint. this had to be extended with some retarder, as it wanted to dry out crazy fast in the screen.

It was quite a task i took on, but i am really please with the final product.