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Artcrank STL Poster
Production Method
Laser-Cut
Silkscreen
Design
Simon Lam
Printing
Two Wheel Design
These customizable posters successfully avoid the prototypical bicycle cliches of someone or something riding a bike by playing with the pattern created by spokes on bicycle wheels. Even better, lyrics from a Queen song laser-cut along the spoke pattern create a sense of overlapping cyclist pathways and radiating light beams emanating from St. Louis’s famous Arch. Different color sheets of paper are provided so that the user can customize it.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
19 × 25 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
French Paper / Muscletone / Black / 140 cover
Number of Colors
1
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Neusa
Project Description
Create a hand-made, bike-inspired poster to be donated and sold at ARTCRANK STL 2013. From the get-go, I wanted to create a typographic design and not have the expected bicycle illustration or someone/something riding a bicycle, but still be bike-inspired. I have always liked the pattern from the spokes so I recreated them using an amazing and fitting excerpt from Queen’s “Bicycle Race.” The screen printed tracks in the background help make the connection with the visual, and I decided to have all type laser cut so that each buyer can utilize whatever paper they desire as backing to show through the laser cut, just like how they would customize their own bike.Production Lesson(s)
While laser cutting is pretty much limitless, I should still consider the amount and size of details and not overwork the laser cut machine — fortunately, the process was painless.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
October 31, 2013
Filed Under
Laser-Cut
Posters
Silkscreen
Tagged with
bicycle
black on black
customizable
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