Monday 18 April 2011

In other news


This isn't really a commissioned piece as I don't get paid to do this but this group mean so much to me that I do it for love.

Okay so my old drama group "The Beck Youth Theatre" did "Our House" the Madness Musical recently. Go look up the story or find the DVD because it's too complicated for me to tell you and it would be a waste of this post XD

So as stories go some of this show takes place at a secondary school. last day of Term. Cue "Baggy Trousers." The costume supervisor (who just so happens to be my mum but it sounds more professional to say supervisor) called me up and asked what is the quickest way to create a school logo badge that is bold, clean and for as little as money as possible. My initial reaction was screen printing. So therefore I got the job in creating and making the school badges.

Influences

So as the show is set in Camden this was my first thought of inspiration. Most schools have some type of bold symbol to represent them so I decided to start off with Camden Lock.
(this picture isn't mine. I have taken this from google images)

I redrew the Camden bridge and decided that this would be the best place to put the initials of the school.


(again, a template i have taken from google images)

Then I started to think about Madness. as they were a SKA band the saxophone made them iconic. I was briefed that the school uniform would be black and yellow so this saxophone template seemed perfect.

Printing problems

A problem I stumbled across was when it came to printing I couldn't get hold of the right binder and i didn't have time to wait for uni's new binder to come in. i tried to screen print with puff binder. i could have got away with this plan if I wasn't printing a bright colour on a black background. All the colour sinked through the fabric making it dark. However you could still see the silhouette of the print. I decided that my only best option was to carefully hand paint on top of the print using a mix of bright yellow fabric paint and yellow acrylic paint. this plan worked successfully.


(my badge design after the acrylic paint job)

(Shannon Stroud modelling the Baggy Trousers Academy uniform)