ADV @ UNDERCONSIDERATION Peek here for details
BROWSE
Client
Self-promotion
Quantity Produced
20
Production Cost
£11 (US$17)
Production Time
–
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
420 mm × 297 mm (16.5 in × 11.7 in)
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
–
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
VAG Rounded
I’m always interested to learn about new ways to manipulate ink on paper. I believe much of the world views printing as a rigid process, but it’s actually quite fluid. There are many ins-and-outs to be discovered or delightfully stumbled upon. Print can have sensual dimensionality, or create dialogues between printer and the public. Jon has done both here.
This project was an attempt to bring tactile design and design for the visually impaired into the public consciousness as well as furthering my personal explorations into this kind of printing method. Typography, as much as we all love it, is inaccessible to blind and visually impaired people. I have been experimenting with tactile graphics that can make things easier to understand without actually having to see or read. The illustration in question, named the ‘Quick Blind Fox’, can be ‘seen’ by feeling the raised black areas. The image is hand drawn originally and I concentrated on the fur only so that the body movement of the fox could be fully engaged with and understood.
The method of creating the raised image involves printing the document using an ink-jet printer onto ‘swell paper’ and then heating it. The heat makes the areas of the paper with coated with black ink rise up and become touchable. All printing and fusing was dome by Zychem Ltd.
Printing this way is always a challenge and the outcomes are fairly unpredictable. I printed the image in a few different sizes, the larger of which worked best. Thinner lines become less raised that thicker ones, and the lines of the smaller prints did not rise as much as I’d have hoped. Another thing to bear in mind is that only black ink will rise and become tactile. Colour will remain flat.
This post was published in the original layout of FPO so all images are smaller. Project descriptions as well as production lessons are quoted in the main content area.
Post Author
Lauren Dickens
Lauren Dickens
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 10, 2011
Filed Under
Posters
Tagged with
fox
print
tactile print
tactility
visually impaired
About
FPO (For Print Only), is a division of UnderConsideration, celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
FPO uses Fonts.com to render Siseriff and Avenir Next.
FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
All comments, ideas and thoughts on FPO are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or FPO’s permission is strictly prohibited
Twitter @ucllc
Sign-up for Mailing List
Mailing list managed by MailChimp
Thanks to our advertisers
About UnderConsideration
UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
products we sell
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.
Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
also
Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.
Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
Related entries
36 Days of Type Poster
Ministry of Environment in Colombia Poster
National Parks Map
eBoy Poster
“Love Your Mother” Print