DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
Hot Stamping
A course by Paolo Proserpio , Art Director and Graphic Designer
About the video: Hot Stamping
Overview
“After seeing how to print with solvent, now I will explain how to hot stamp at home! ”
In this video lesson Paolo Proserpio addresses the topic: Hot Stamping, 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
“Hot stamping It's time to hot stamp our cover without cliché, i.e. without the printing matrix. The first thing you need it's your sheet with the printed cover both front and back. This sheet must be laser printed, because if it was inkjet printed, unfortunately the hot foil cannot attack. Now, what you need to prepare is the hot foil that you will use to print your cover. There are several colors of hot foil and on this project I decided to use pink and gold, but of course you can choose the colors you prefer. Now, you need to cut out the hot foil surface according to the part you want to ...”
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Course summary for: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
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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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