Quick process post today. The last few weeks have been about colour trials. I’ve been taking my prints and interperting them into different colour ways. The three colourways you can see here are just a fraction of the trials I’ve completed. I’d never used Adobe Illustrator before I started this journey and initially it was a real challenge. I’m getting faster and learning more short cuts; it’s an invaluable tool for print design development. I’ll need to choose the first prints and colourways to launch with and I’ll be doing a number of tests to determine which ones make the first collection.
…or get your head out of the sand. I pride myself on being quite organised and a ‘together’ kind of person. However, I totally slipped up on my HMRC/Companies House duties. My thinking was that as I’m not selling anything yet and therefore not making any money, HMRC and Companies House don’t care about my …
The more common version of this saying – I won’t dignify it by writing it out – involves felines. Now I’m not an animal rights champion, I’m not even vegetarian, but it felt inhumane to write that phrase down. Fortunately the clever people at http://theanimalrightsactionsite.blogspot.com/2014/01/animal-friendly-alternatives-for-common.html gave me this alternative and here we are. In my …
Vendor at trade show: Hi Me: Hi! Does your factory do digital printing? Vendor at trade show: Yes we do (friendly smile back). We only do sublimination printing. Me: Wonderful. (shoulders back, confident, ‘I mean business voice’) I’d like to print on 100% cotton at approximately x GSM. Can you help me with this? Vendor …
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Colour Trials
Quick process post today. The last few weeks have been about colour trials. I’ve been taking my prints and interperting them into different colour ways. The three colourways you can see here are just a fraction of the trials I’ve completed. I’d never used Adobe Illustrator before I started this journey and initially it was a real challenge. I’m getting faster and learning more short cuts; it’s an invaluable tool for print design development. I’ll need to choose the first prints and colourways to launch with and I’ll be doing a number of tests to determine which ones make the first collection.
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