DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
Materials
A course by Paolo Proserpio , Art Director and Graphic Designer
About the video: Materials
Overview
“Before starting to design, it is important to have all the necessary materials. Here I will show you everything you need to start producing! ”
In this video lesson Paolo Proserpio addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins. Learn to create graphics for band merchandise with Photoshop and Illustrator, and apply them using thermal and transfer printing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this course, I'll tell you how to make brooches and how to make a cover of a small vinyl, also called 7 ", transfer printing and hot stamping without using a cliché, then a Do It Yourself hot stamp. To begin with, we will see in this lesson the materials we need. To make the pins you will use a button maker, that is, a machine to make brooches, we will use different types of paper on which we will print the graphics you will create, we will use the refills for the pins to make all the pins you will need. To make your brooches even more unique, we will use paper scotch tape and ...”
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Course summary for: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
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Category
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Areas
Art Direction, Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Printing

Paolo Proserpio
A course by Paolo Proserpio
Paolo Proserpio is a graphic designer who lives and works in Milan. He's been a big fan of the underground music, graphic design, and art scenes since he was young. He first studied at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio followed by the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan where he specialized in graphic design.
He worked in the fields of music and fashion during his student years and continued for a time after graduating. He now has over a decade of experience running his own studio, which focuses on graphic design and art direction, primarily for printed products such as gadgets, T-shirts, catalogs, packaging, and album covers.
From 1999 to 2009, he also worked as a photographer for magazines, webzines, and agencies, as well as MTV.it, capturing images of famous musicians and bands from Italy and around the world. Since 2005, he's been sharing his knowledge on brand design and printmaking techniques as a professor at the I.E.D in Milan, and currently teaches two courses on screen printing at the Domus Academy.
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