EDIT: Posted this the same time as Darren posted his post, so now I feel like an idiot for concentrating on the promotion stuff.

EDIT 2: I only just checked the printkids blog, so now I'm an UBER idiot. You can pretty much ignore this blog, as I'll just copy whatever you guys/gals end up doing. Still, I'll leave this up for peace of mind.

Hello everyone, Leo here, just with a couple of thoughts/mockups.


This was the first mock-up I made for the website/print design (not using actual copy/title/bckgrd image).

I soon realised that what we'd been talking about meant that the readability of the text would be difficult to manage (it depends what's going on in the bckgrd image). It also kinda ruined the graphic elements of the design, especially from a distance. I used Clarendon by the way, which I think looks pretty good.

A possible fix for this would be to just use one-colour screen print for the whole poster:

But then I started to feel like it was missing colour. So I thought, what if we used coloured paper, and did a two-colour screenprint:

Tell me if this is possible, screenprint experts, but this is how I'd do it: blue paper, black colour print for the bckgrd texture, then white colour for the strip/type.

Anyway, I did most of this just to see what it would look like. So feel free to criticise, destroy or generally mock my graphic design skills. Or just generally walk around in a malaise as to why Leo spent a few hours designing stuff he said he didn't want to do.