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Risk vs Reward Poster
Production Method
Silkscreen
Design
Büro North
Soren Luckins—Design Director
David Williamson—Senior Designer
Jordan Rowe—Graphic Designer
Wil Campbell—Industrial Designer
Andrew Robertson—Student
Chelsea Vandenberg—Student
Printing
STS Creative Printing
A creative solution to a fun project. The “glowing” portion of this poster is triggered by a motion sensitive UV light source. I won’t ruin the rest of the story (see below). A simple, clean idea executed thoughtfully.
Client
Design Kids Melbourne
Quantity Produced
50
Production Cost
$1,200
Production Time
4 Weeks
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
33.11 × 46.81 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Arches 88 Paper
Number of Colors
–
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Custom
Project Description
Over the last three and a half weeks we have been collaborating as a part of the "Threesome" poster exhibition. An initiative set up to pair a number of Melbourne design studio's each with a student and a recent graduate. The brief was to produce a typographic poster that would be placed in a secret CBD Melbourne location to become part of a typographic treasure hunt.The content for the poster was to be based around a three word sentence which expresses something that we as designers are passionate about. In response we selected our phrase as "Risk vs. Reward". To express this we placed our poster down a dark alleyway, with only the word "RISK" being constantly visible. In order to reveal the remainder of the poster, the viewer must go down the alley to trigger a motion detecting UV light source that reveals the "vs reward" component through the use of invisible UV ink.
Upon posting it up, our artwork was "souvenired" with in less than 8 hours. So fortunately or unfortunately one lucky Melbournian took the risk and was certainly rewarded.
Production Lesson(s)
The initial plan for producing the print was create two A0 stencils and apply the UV and black ink by hand. We had a few issues with this production method as it was extremely time consuming and our results were incredibly varied due to the consistency of the UV ink which was incredibly thin. Due to this result we decided to go down the path of producing it via a screen print which resulted in a fantastic crisp and clean finish.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
November 4, 2013
Filed Under
Posters
Silkscreen
Tagged with
custom type
hidden messages
UV-lamp
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