Following the guidelines provided - create a two colour advert in a week - Beto's idea was to promote a fictious food product, in a slightly old fashioned way...
The original idea evolved somehow from this: glass onion (White Album; Beatles) - glass sandwich (an unpublished book by Robert Smith; The Cure) - glass/food - any material/food = Bubblewrap Sandwich!
Once the idea was executed on paper (pencil and ink), Beto used Illustrator to clean it up and pass it into Manga Studio, a software he is familiarising himself with. "I like how easy traditional halftones can be applied and tweaked in Manga Studio. I wanted to use halftone for two reasons; One is that it gives an instant old fashion mechanical print look. The other reason was to achieve the type of effect you see in money". While playing in Photoshop testing colors for the print, Beto encountered the green/blue combination, giving the print the look of an old note or very old postal stamps.
The session went smoothly, and between work and jokes, we had a look at two books - Print Liberation and Meet Mr Product - both recommendable and available for just over a fiver. The later containing a picture of the Bazzoka bubble gum logo that brought memories to the older members of the team and illustrated that play with colors, halftones and off register layers that Beto was looking for from his print.
Colour variants:
Test prints:
Overall a fun session with some visitors, some of Jono's best ever cups of tea and some very satisfying prints to close a busy week that should see the Co:Lab team ready for thee monstrous task ahead.
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