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Tinta de Verano - Solar Prints
Production Method
Other
Design
Senyor Estudi
Designers: Lluis Serra and Daniel Guix
Photographer: Susagna Vilanova
Printing
Self printed
If you have ever been on press you know it can be an exhilarating experience, one that can drag on for days. Most of your time is spent in a windowless room checking e-mails while you wait for the next call from the press team a few doors down. The team at Senyor Estudi crafted a much better setting for their self-promotion, but something tells me they spent a bit more time than initially expected…
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
10 × 4 × in.
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
(third cardboard lining) / 300g
Number of Colors
–
Project Description
Somewhere between printing without ink and photography without developing, solar imprints allow for direct projection onto any surface. “Tinta de Verano” (Summer Ink) is a series of ecological post cards, naturally sunned due to over exposure to the sun, with rhythms of grilling out or the Macarena. It is a tribute to third cardboard lining — known as a check book cover — which had its glorious past in the last century and has passed into history. Due to its development with soft pulp and blown fibres, the dyes that colour it rapidly deteriorate giving way to tones typical of used pastels. A defect has become a plus thanks to this discarded myth.Production Lesson(s)
This cardboard needs 5 to 8 hours of sun exposure to reach a good legibility.
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
August 18, 2016
Filed Under
Other
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orenga
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