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Work Smarter Poster Series

Production Method

Letterpress
Silkscreen

Design

Orange Element

Printing

Baltimore Print Studios

 — Kelly Cree

First imagined as a direct mail piece, then a custom sketchbook, and finally the set of six solution-oriented posters seen below, Orange Element’s dynamic illustration of their 2011 mantra, “Work Smarter,” takes its own advice.

We set out to create a series that would illustrate our 2011 mantra, “Work Smarter,” in a dynamic yet simple way. The goal was to inspire ourselves and our clients and friends to think and work differently. The process began this past summer, when we would gather in our kitchen during lunch and discuss methods of working smarter. Food always helps, right? Initially, we created a direct mail piece incorporating the same set of statements you see today on the posters; only first they appeared on a set of custom screen printed notebooks. We liked the outcome of the notebooks so much we decided to take it a few steps further. We designed and produced a series of six letterpress and screen printed posters containing the same set of statements and actions that have helped us with our creative process and how we function as designers and a team.

Initially, we were going to use polymer plates for the background shell and overprint with wooden type for the callouts on each poster. This proved to be costly and our clever friends at Baltimore Print Studios suggested screen printing each background and then letterpressing only the callout text per poster. We designed the backgrounds for the screen print portion digitally and then went in and physically measured BPS’s wooden print collection to see what letters would fit best. After finessing on the computer, we sent over files for the backgrounds to be printed, selected the colors and then came in to see what a wonderful job BPS did. With all the backgrounds of the posters printed and ready to go, we were able to handset the wooden type and print each callout text per poster. The alignment of text proved to be tricky at times but with patience and the helpful hands of BPS, we were able to complete the multi-media piece and we could not be happier with the outcome!

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