Acrylic In Print

Acrylic In print

Acrylic In Print Part of the Working In Print Series Acrylic in Print is the second in a series of experimental printing techniques. Using influences from the past and printing reproduction methods from history. This is in the hope to bring contemporary design to life with tactile media and techniques of the past.

Wax In print

Wax In print

Wax In Print Part of the Working in Print Series Wax in Print is the first in a series of experimental printing techniques. Using influences from the past and printing reproduction methods from history. This is in the hope to bring contemporary design to life with tactile media and techniques of the past.

X-Ray Prints

X-Ray Prints

X-Ray Screen Prints A selection of x-rays were screen printed to make a small collection of postcards and print work with unusual imagery.

Exposed

Exposed Stencil - Copyright Thomas Jackson 2009

Exposed. Exposed is a project combining cutting edge image capture technology with the intention on exploring a hidden world focused around a competition project by iSTD titled 3 Minutes. The Brief: Produce a piece of work from an A1 sheet with the focus on 3 Minutes. The above image shows a laser cut acrylic stencil, [...]

Repeat

Repeat

Repeat…Repeat…Repeat “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana. This is another quote project, this time experimenting with etching. The process is simple, etch into a aluminum plate, ink up and put through a roll press. Simple but definitely effect and marvelous. The sheer detail and very low reproduction value [...]

Letters Are Signs

Letters are signs

Letters are signs for sounds.  ”Letters are Signs for Sounds” Eric Gill. This is another quote project, this time experimenting with lino-printing. Each one of the letters is my favorite character from several unique typefaces. This was assembled and transfered onto the lino to cut by hand. The finished prints are shown above. As with [...]

Dream within a dream

Dream within a dream. This is another project which is part of a larger quote project running through the course of this year. This quote is a famous one by Edgar Alan Poe “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”. I have depicted this quote with two types of [...]

Merry Christmas 08

Christmas Cards 2008 This year I have decided to use my skills acquired this semester at university to create a set of 35 bespoke christmas cards. Using both laser cutting and screen printing a clean and contemporary card was achieved. Challenging convention in both terms of colour and size the christmas cards are a bright [...]

Designer’s Direction

Designer’s Direction “Through the Designer’s Direction…Technical craft becomes an art.” Martin Solomon This is another quote project, this time the experimental printmaking technique is letterpress. Using the laser cutting machine i was able to cut out the individual letters and affix them to a 44″ x 1.5″ x 1″ stick to make a type rule. [...]

iSoul

iSoul The introductoruy project for the 3rd and final year of my design degree at Sheffield Hallam University was an open sky brief to which we were given: If God exists what would you ask him/her/it? I chose to ask him how to get into heaven and given that is it possible to buy yourself [...]