The status of screen printing in the graphic design profession
More and more schools realize the importance of typography for design courses. All design products, especially graphic design products, need to be realized by printing. Almost all art colleges now offer printing courses. Of course, silk screen Printing is also indispensable. In the teaching process of design, focusing on practical teaching is no longer a problem that a school attaches great importance to. Now all courses allow students to materialize design as much as possible, and let students experience it in the printing course
Hand-printing, actually visit the printing factory, and see the complete process of the design from design to printing into finished products. Students must actually operate these real things, such as the typesetting, offset printing, screen printing, etc. of the books themselves, so as to present the final and complete production of their own design works.
With more and more academic exchanges, some foreign teaching concepts of graphic design courses have been gradually brought to our country and applied to actual teaching. Among the printing methods, screen printing has the lowest investment and the most convenient Schools have established studios, and many schools have established screen printing studios on their campuses, offering screen printing courses for students, teaching in practice, and experiencing the wonders of screen printing. Graphic design and printing complement each other, especially for learning graphic classes
Cheng’s students, it is very important to understand printing technology. Whether it is different materials, inks, or post-press processing methods, they can provide more inspiration for future design, and also provide more ideas for future designers to show their design works and creative ideas. chance.
Advantages of screen printing in graphic design
Compared with embossing, gravure, and offset screen printing, it has strong advantages in texture, touch, and color brightness. In addition, screen printing technology can achieve large-format printing. With the advantages of color texture, the printed product has a more eye-catching effect. Especially in the use of color, it can be used to the fullest, pursue the texture that the designer wants to achieve, fully display the charm of the color in the design, and bring different visual and tactile feelings to the viewer. And structurally, it provides a wider space for free expression for graphic designers. Most designs include two processes of “design” and “completion”. Most of the graphic design works need to be copied and completed by means of printing before the entire design process is completed. Different printing production techniques determine the different works of the work. Personal style. Different printing times, different substrates, and different ink coatings will bring different texture styles. Screen printing is the printing method that achieves the most textured style.
As we all know, the completion of a graphic design product includes pre-press design, printing, and post-press processes. Screen printing can not only undertake the printing and copying functions during printing, but also many special processes after printing are inseparable from screen printing. The participation of, more precisely, screen printing in graphic design is more to carry the effect of generating novel textures and new ideas, and is not simply used for large-scale reproduction and reproduction. The present of screen printing in the application of graphic design
Modernity, artistry far surpasses other printing techniques. Only when graphic designers fully understand or master the technical and artistic features of screen printing, and fully participate in printing practice, can they continuously create unique and impressive screen printing graphic design works.