G&B Arts at the Design Museum - One hundred screen printed posters, a retrospective exhibition

(Introduction) 'Screen printing is a young industry, first making its appearance in Britain in 1907, when an artist, Samuel Simon of Manchester, took out a patent for 'improvements relating to stencils. The process emerged commercially during the late 1920s, to be used by poster and ticket writers for the short-run production of colour posters and display material. It was a craft process requiring little capital, for most of the equipment was hand-made, a Heath Robinson trade of wooden frames, benches and drying racks, with hand-cut paper stencils and oil-based inks combining to produce prints instantly recognisable as screen printing by their porridge-thick deposits of colour. It was not until after the Second World War that screen printing was legitimised as a genuine printing process, with the advent of automatic machinery, advancing methods of photographic preparation and specially formulated inks. For many designers, screen printing is still associated with an introduction to the rudiments of printmaking at college, a stencil process for reproducing images in solid colours. The basic principles of the process still hold, but today, screen printing is a high-tech printing process, a multi-million pound industry using electronic circuitry, precision engineering and computer controlled photographic techniques...'

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