(From wikipedia)

Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that traditionally creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. A screenprint or serigraph is an image created using this technique.



It began as an industrial technology, and was adopted by American graphic artists in the 1930s; the Pop Art movement of the 1960s further popularized the technique. Many of Andy Warhol's most famous works were created using the technique. It is currently popular both in fine arts and in small-scale commercial printing, where it is commonly used to put images on T-shirts, hats, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood.



I was in a color theory class at Quad/Graphics when the instructor brought up this term, and the concept just hit me like a brick, whoa.



I enjoy this design for a couple of reasons:



-it's a humorous shirt that not many will get, but will ask; "what is serigraphy?" which gives you an awesome opportunity to make anything up.



-the sheer irony for those who know, or you let know, i'm sure you've figured it by now, anti-screen print message on a screen printed shirt you paid for, ha haaa.

wonderfully ironic. I enjoy this for the same reasons that you already mentioned. It seems like there should be a different word than boycott maybe. something stronger perhaps.

"which gives you an awesome opportunity to make anything up."----absolutely

wow... thats awesome...

I enjoyed your explanation, and I love the shirt. Is the shirt color gray, or a brownish gray?

thanks,



the background is athletic heather, and the thumbnail is sagestone, it'll show well on any light or medium color.

haha i like it

like the idea, but not the graphics



wearing that one would be begging people to ask you what it meant

it takes too much explaining to ectually get the meaning unless you know, like me. But it's great otherwise.

-Catalist

nice $5, i want to wear it in our screen print faculty @ uni, haha!

You may be on to something, but this needs a lot more polishing. For one, the shirt color is pretty ugly. I would pick something brighter.

Second, the curved text on the side does not go well (visually) with the "propaganda" theme, nor does the font of the large text. Look up some images of actual propaganda and see if you can get some ideas from there. Think art deco.

hahaha i love it.

thanks for the advice timrb, I'll keep that in mind since I think this one has a low chance of being printed.

This reminded me of that guy who went around to some really idiotic women with a petition to end women's suffrage. And they all signed it.

I think it also pokes fun at those people who are 'revolutionary' just for uniqueness and attention. Like most people who call themselves 'socialists' at any High school in America :/

and Robot!, Penn and Teller got a boatload of signatures at a Greenpeace rally (or something like that) to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, water, after listing actually 'harmful' effects of water.

I like the idea of making something up.

this isn't very clever.

i don't want to come off as negative, i just think it would cool if you came up with maybe more of an illustration like some cartoon or something. i know your trying to do the whole OBEY thing, but it isn't working. just let boycott serigraphy as the title, not put it on the shirt, it kind of defeats the purpose...

I think text saying "down with" would seem more appropriate than "boycott", since the fist just looks forceful.

are you also boycotting proper kerning?

NICE, but the design is not very well centered on the tee; plus, it'd be cool to have more color choices.

sorry, but I don't see the point of this shirt. A better tomorrow is looking through the roots.



designwise, I think there is a much better execution of the concept.



I love serigraphy just like how I love my SLR camera.

Thats pretty clever. I can dig it

Hm. But do i want to spend £10 to make some thing up?

I like it...and if I thought people would get it, I'd definitely buy it. I wish people had bigger vocabularies.

it reminds me of Rogue. that makes me want beer

interesting idea.. but.

lol kerning

I dont like explaining

or lying

I don't think most people would get this.

^that's the point^

This would have totally sucked without your explanation. I'll give you that.

I kind of like this, although I'm not too good at making things up on the spot. If I were, I'd jump at the opportunity. Maybe I will anyway.

nice speech.

your tee shirt is wack.

this and the comments that follow are proof that having too many designers in one place isn't such a good thing.

Wanky arsefaced bullshit.

Sorry that wasn't very nice. It's just like; where are you coming from with this? Mars?

Oh sure, that makes sense.......

maybe you could just make it say "boycott screen printing" since thats what most people call serigraphy anyways. or even just boycott t-shirts... well, thats a different message altogether

^ because it's funny when people don't know what it means, and even funnier when they do...



i like it though. $4

Good explanation. $5

I love it. 5$

and if you dont understand the point of this shirt, you either have

a)no imagination or

b)no sense of humor

(andy mason and friends)

lovely.

i think your explanation sold the shirt man... good.



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