Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Packaging / / Development | Experimentation

FOILING ONTO ACETATE DOES NOT WORK.  
- it really really doesn't work at all.  
  Never try it unless you want this 
  to happen.


BUT IT DOES LOOK ABIT KEWL.
-  "A happy accident."


The whole idea of foiling onto acetate was to give the look 
of a matt finish on a shiny surface.  Generating a tactile form 
of intrigue, reflecting the nature of the work - 'forcing some 
kind of sense to take over' i.e. the way in which i've laid out
the type on the page for the poems forces the viewer to read 
it to themselves in a way they wouldn't usually- like an 
abstract, more structured form of deconstructivism.


My idea now is to try and mimic the image below to get the 
same look.  The image below is just the back of the acetate- 
with the black ink showing through and a grainy white back
ground from where the foil has failed me.  Looking through 
the documentation, the white background with black type 
communicate much more clearly - my next step is to try and
make this technique work successfully.










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