DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
Making Pins
A course by Paolo Proserpio , Art Director and Graphic Designer
About the video: Making Pins
Overview
“In this lesson you will see how to make pins with a diameter of 38 mm. You will need a badge maker, a circular cutter and, of course, the pins to make!”
In this video lesson Paolo Proserpio addresses the topic: Making Pins, 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
“Making brooches The time has come for the final project and to make your own pins. I remind you that the pins we will make are 38mm in diameter, even if, if you buy a Flexi machine, you will have the possibility to replace the cylinders of the machine in order to obtain other dimensions, such as the small one of 25 mm. A premise on the budget: when you buy a badge machine, we are around € 130. Then you absolutely have to buy the circular cutter, which costs around 110 €. The last thing you are missing from purchasing is the brooches. To buy 500 pins, we are around 100 €, and to buy 1,000 pi...”
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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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