3D screenprint

An action packed design here from 2007, and a foray into screenprinting. The Loughborough University School of art, next door to my workplace, had a print making department under the guidance of the great Dave Gibbs, who helped me out of hours to make up a screen to print a run of blue and magenta B-movie-tastic 3D posters.

Unfortunately, these lurid lovelies did not transform well into a small digital image so the version for online promotion was left in a sea-scum brown:

I wanted the background to be a mass of curving lines and detail, full of characters on one side such as a giant bespectacled octopus chasing a surfing fink, offering beer to a fish and stealing a mermaids brassiere, to reflect the surf sounds of the bands in the first arrow. The bands in the arrow on the second side have more of a tuff garage vibe, so this one points to a man in beatle boots opening up a can of 'whoop ass' on a little smoking fellow, giving him a swift kick in the behind, like the jolt from a seeing a great energetic band. The arrows make the band names stand out and are an element often found on those super early stereo record sleeves.

 First of all I registered the prints with too much space between the cyan and magenta colours:

but got it right after a bit of trial and error:

here's the finished print modeled by our local luchadore el Lapiz Loco:

get out your 3D glasses to enjoy the full effect!