DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
Transfer Printing with Solvent
A course by Paolo Proserpio , Art Director and Graphic Designer
About the video: Transfer Printing with Solvent
Overview
“How do you print the covers with solvent? Now I will teach you all the tricks! Remember to always wear gloves and a mask before starting work.”
In this video lesson Paolo Proserpio addresses the topic: Transfer Printing with Solvent, 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
“Transfer printing with solvent In this lesson, we will do a solvent transfer print. It will therefore be necessary the use of gloves and a mask. To begin the process, you have printed on an A3 sheet of the margins, of the flaps and marks that will allow you to cut, glue and fold your vinyl after printing it. Again, there are print marks. These marks will allow us to cut out the sheet so you can place it exactly in the square of your vinyl. Now what you need to do is take your graphics, put it on the clipping plane and cut it out. I take the ruler, I place it over the marks, I take the utili...”
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Course summary for: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
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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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