One of the groups is tackling how to press the medium of vinyl using the vinyl cutter. I was wondering if you can hunt around and find examples and techniques of designers who have used vinyl in unexpected and exciting ways. There are only a couple restrictions:
- Project must use vinyl or another material that is meant to be used with the vinyl cutter.
- Our cutter has a 22" width with a 4' approximate legth restriction, so we're looking for works that are of either that scale OR that can be tiled to be larger.
- Our cutter is the Roland GX24
- Vinyl as printmaking (multicolors with registration points)
- Vinyl as stencil for paint / etching / etc
- Round surfaces
- ARE THERE MORE???
Here are a few things Ive found so far.
ReplyDeletescreen printing with a vinyl cut
http://www.instructables.com/id/Silkscreen-Print-with-Vinyl/
make a printed circuit board for electrical work
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/vinyl_cut_pcb_resist.html
this site offers another chemical to etch with
http://hackaday.com/2008/07/28/how-to-etch-a-single-sided-pcb/
reflectors for bikes or anything really
http://www.beacongraphics.com/brightbike.html
and pouches wallets and the whatnot
http://indiefixx.com/2008/03/18/tutorial-tuesday-cut-out-vinyl-pouch/
etching glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWgVweykq8
Ive mainly been looking for and found practical things to do. these could be brought in a new direction. I'll see if i can find some artists that have created unique works. the only one i can think of now is not necessarily vinyl but applicable and that's
Kara Walker whom we have probably all heard of
art
ReplyDeletehttp://studio-asgard.deviantart.com/art/Nick-Cave-Light-Box-41779642
more art
ReplyDeletehttp://www.behance.net/Gallery/wall-graphics-vinyl-cut/175524
yet more art
ReplyDeletehttp://www.behance.net/Gallery/Spectra-38/343921
Just looking over your post, the "round surfaces" item makes me think-- It would be interesting if there are any documented methods on how to mathematically calculate the curve of a various surface and then apply that curvature to your 2d artwork so it can be correctly applied to the surface when printed/cut. I know people are able to do it with fabric, so there's got to be some way of achieving that..
ReplyDeleteI'll try and look into that. Im looking to make a vinyl print for my motorcycle helmet soon. What I plan on doing for that is taking a piece of paper and laying it over the helmet, cutting it to the shape that fits, then scanning that piece of paper for a template to work with in illustrator. If this is what you want then there is a work around. As far as an equation I think the first step of getting the exact parameters of the curved item might be a bit tricky even before trying to flatten through math in order to prep it for 2d work. Si?
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