This course will explore print production via screen-printing and the computer/digital output process. Students will consider the history of contemporary printing in relation to these high and low processes. This history includes large and small scale advertising, propaganda, decoration and political textiles.

Students will be introduced to conceptual and technical approaches to print in relation but not limited to the two-dimensional plane and are encouraged to question the role, placement and context of their work.

Objects of production and placement can include: digital printing onto industry substrates, posters, utilitarian multiples, printed fabric, garments, signage, domestic surfaces, public surfaces, interior and exterior sites.

This course will introduce basic techniques in screen-printing and utilize photographic, computer and hand-generated images as print source material. Forms of output will incorporate: printing onto paper, fabric, alternative materials, direct on-site printing, and large format digital output.

Students must have a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Class Limit 10.

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