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The Protest Poster

 

1-day course

Jon Flannery  

Students will take home their own screen and squeegee! 

 

Schedule

Sunday February 23rd 

11am-3pm

 

Course Description

This course will introduce you to the practice of urgently communicating your voice through striking images that serve a greater social call to action. Unlike a typical client-based poster project that may afford you time and comfort to relay info about an event or cause, this addresses the other side of the coin…Something has just happened in the world which you have an instinctual desire to speak out about (beyond and alongside the venue of social media), and now you have the tools in front of you. You’ll be tasked to produce a poster from start to finish in one class, with nothing but a knife, paper, screen and ink. These limitations cut out the unnecessary textual and visual expression in order to accentuate the visceral and possibly untidy idea at the core of the issue, quickly and impactfully.

 

Please come to class with text(s) and image(s) you feel strongly about, in mind and/or on paper. You’ll alchemize them (one per student) into posters and print as many of them as you can. We’ll then exchange posters with classmates, and hang and discuss them as a group.

 

Topics covered

-Brief poster history, basic tenets of effective and efficient image-making. Historical examples following.

 

-Creating visual impact within limitations and very brief timeline

 

Materials 

Provided by TLP, class fees:

(1) 21 x 27” screen (230 yellow mesh)

(1) 14” squeegee

Mask paper

Poster paper

Guide/instructional on building your own poster press (as we’ll be using in class)

 

Provided by Student:

Sketchbook/drawing paper, drawing tools of your choice.

 

Helpful skills

-Basic image-making / composition 

-Screen printing experience and/or basic understanding of printmaking processes

 

Level of study

Beginner-Intermediate

 

Instructor

Jon Flannery is an artist/printmaker living and working in Cincinnati. He operates Cryptogram, an image-making studio in Northside. Specializing in graphic design and illustration often through the vehicle of print, the studio focuses on working with independent clients big and small. Through in-house silkscreen, there is an emphasis on the printed poster, and working with artists to produce singular and collaborative editions.  

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Class Fees 

Member Fee: $120 

Non-Member Fee: $135 

(Class fee includes the cost of a screen and a squeegee which each student will get to take home.) 

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Member Fee $120

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Non-Member Fee $135

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Designing and Printing the Poster

 

4 week course

Jon Flannery  

Students will take home their own screen and squeegee! 

 

Schedule

March 30th, April 6th, April 13th and April 27th 

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11am-2pm 

Last Class 11am-4pm 

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Description

This course will give you the tools to design a beautiful AND functional poster. Posters are not paintings, they are often created in response to or in service of a current event (a concert, a call to action/protest, an annual event, etc). Therefore the poster must service its function within limited time and often limited means (budgetary limitations that directly effect the printing process). We will learn to creatively work with and against these parameters. The best posters are usually few colors, in order to serve as quick reads that leave lasting impressions. 

 

Topics covered

-Poster history, basic tenets of effective and efficient image-making, and color theory

 

-Creating visual impact within limitations of few colors and brief timeline

 

-Taking your poster from digital final to print (pre-press and separations)

 

-Basic rules and best practices of photo emulsion screen printing 

 

Course Agenda

Day 1: Posters / Graphic Design overview and conversation.

Image-sourcing, collaging, sketching and/or color-blocking for your poster.

 

Day 2: Poster design work day. Poster to be completed and separated for films by start of Day 3.

 

Day 3: Screen burning, color mixing, printing your edition.

 

Day 4: Printing & trimming your edition. Poster hanging and crit/conversation with light drinks and snacks

 

Materials 

Provided by TLP, class fees: 

(2) 21 x 27” screen (230 yellow mesh)

(1) 14” squeegee

Poster stock, ink (+ mixing sticks and additives), screens, press, squeegees, emulsion.

Films, image-source materials (Cryptogram).

 

Provided by Student:

Sketchbook/paper, preferred drawing/mark-making materials, laptop or desktop computer with adobe illustrator and photoshop, any additional image-sourcing materials you may have and want to use.

 

Helpful skills

-Adobe suite

-Basic image-making / composition 

-Screen printing experience and/or basic understanding of printmaking processes

 

Level of study

Intermediate

 

Instructor

Jon Flannery is an artist/printmaker living and working in Cincinnati. He operates Cryptogram, an image-making studio in Northside. Specializing in graphic design and illustration often through the vehicle of print, the studio focuses on working with independent clients big and small. Through in-house silkscreen, there is an emphasis on the printed poster, and working with artists to produce singular and collaborative editions.  

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Class Fees 

Member Fee: $295

Non-Member Fee: $335  

(Student will receive 2 screens and a squeegee to take home with them.)   

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Member Fee: $295

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Non-Member Fee: $335

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