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LOGAN BROACH DESIGN
Apparel Design
A series of mockups and final products that showcase my abilities in designing artwork intended for clothing production. All designs were created in conjunction with clients and their proposed vision.
Beauty Is Skin Deep Front
This shirt design was created for a client looking to create a clothing brand that is associated with his career as a music artist. His criteria were only that the shirt had his brand name on the front, and his song lyrics on the back.
Beauty Is Skin Deep Mockup Back
Both front and back designs were created by utilizing Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The client's chosen production method, Direct-to-Film, was kept in mind during the designing process. This specific method uses a .png for production. Unlike screen printing, using DTF allows for a greater variety in color and the use of photo realistic images.
Beauty Is Skin Deep Final Product
While the DTF process can be used for more intricate designs, a major con is that the colors tend to be muted when compared to screen printing. Generally speaking, this process is best suited for low volume production.
Screen Printing with Vellums
As a graphic designer it is essential to understand both digital space and real space. Creating digital art is one thing, but practical application is just as important. For screen printing, the process often begins with printing out your color separations on a transparency film.
Stock Leopard
Prior to the beginning of production, vectorized artwork is needed. In this specific project, I vectorized a stock image of a leopard and then reduced it to a one-color design.
Coating and Burning the Design
A clean high mesh screen is prepped by coating it with a photosensitive emulsion. Once dry the transparency is then taped to the center line and taken to the light exposure unit.
Pressing the Screen
From the exposure unit, the screen is taken to a washout booth. The parts of the image that were obscured by the transparency are removed by the water. Finally, any minor imperfections in the emulsion coating are taped up, along with the registration marks, so that excess ink does not go through.
Final Product
Ink is forced through the screen to produce the final image on a garment. After a trip to the curing oven, the completed product is ready for the client.
Laser Engraved Patches
Cut with an Omtech 80w CO2 laser engraver, these heat press leather patches were created as samples for clients. My general workflow for these projects is to make the vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator, and then import the design into the Lightburn software. This application simply allows me to format the files so that the engraver can recognize them, as well as control the speed and power settings.
Laser Engraved Cork Patch
This heat press cork patch is manufactured with a similar workflow. The only difference being that cork should be engraved and cut at a much lower power setting since it is not as dense as leather.
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