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BROWSE
BLOW Poster
Production Method
Silkscreen
Design
Tyler Deal
Printing help from Hutch Hutchinson
Photography by Ryan Troy Ford
Printing
Tyler Deal
What’s better than lickable wallpaper? An insufflatable Blow poster! Created with a mixture of metallic silver, baking soda and PVA glue, this hand-cut screenprint looks a little too good to be true — yet it is! Let’s just hope no one gets any ideas at the AIGA Toledo’s Popcorn Posters exhibition.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
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Paper Stock
100#
Number of Colors
2
Varnishes
1 powder-coat
Binding
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Typography
Hand-drawn and hand-cut all the way.
Project Description
I was invited to submit a movie poster for AIGA Toledo's Popcorn Posters exhibition. I chose Blow not only because it's a compelling story, but the ending monologue is my favorite movie line of all time. I knew I wanted to try powder-coating a silkscreened design, but I wasn't sure exactly how. We all know this movie is about George Jung's foray into the business of cocaine... a lot of cocaine. Now I don't have thousands of dollars, nor the fortitude to procure the amount of blow I would need to make this work, so I settled with a close second: baking soda.Production Lesson(s)
If you're looking to powder coat your own design, get some friends to help you. Even though I had help, the PVA-glue + medium mixture I used for the BLOW layer ended up drying in the screen about 10 posters into the run. I would say you need at least 2 people sprinkling on the powder and one pulling the posters to be safe.Use a low-mesh (180-220) screen so that as much glue goes through the screen as possible.
When knocking the extra powder off of the drying prints, be very careful. I found if I just tipped it forward and shook it a tiny bit a lot of powder stayed on the poster.
You can do this with any powder! Cinnamon, metal dust, ground up glass, sand... go crazy!
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
October 13, 2014
Filed Under
Posters
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