Nicola Woowat just graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with BA(Hons) Graphic Design. We bumped into her at New Blood where she handed over one of her floppy business cards made from latex and acryclic-based inks. Using the same experimental method, Nicola produced a poster series. We got in touch to ask more about the process.

“For the poster I etched my design into a large single sheet of acrylic using the laser cutter, this had to be the same dimensions as the poster as I had to do it all in one go. I etched the design in reverse for it to come out the right way round from the mould. I mixed my latex, which is a liquid, with my colour, I used acrylic ink, and then poured it over the sheet of acrylic- I needed a lot of it! I had to pour it right up to the edge of the acrylic sheet to cover the area, so it needed to be in a DIY card box to stop it flowing everywhere (which had happened in previous attempts!) Then I just needed to wait for it to set, peel it
off the acrylic carefully and cover it in talcum powder front and back to stop it sticking together.” Click here to see more of Nicola’s work.

Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 10:36 am by James in Design, Published, Typography | rss feed for comments | Leave a response, or trackback