Impossibility Zines

I thought it would be a cool idea for each print to come packaged with a short zine. I've put these together really quickly, each page just has a vectored version of the print, then the shape it was originated from and a short but of information about the original shape. It's items like these that really add to the sense of limited edition.

Impossible Screen Prints

I've spent the last couple of days exposing and printing these designs. Because of the pure scale of the prints and the gold ink drying much faster than regular ink (down to it's powder form I think) It makes them much harder to print than usual. Instead of being able to print with one big pull I've had to use a small squeegee and go over each section over and over to push as much ink through as I can. I've done an edition of 5 of each design which I think is sufficient.

Shapes 4

Looking at how text might work over the top. I think some of these look quite interesting and dutch, maybe I should look at the work impossibility in some other languages. But I'm not sure whether they are detracting from the strength of the patterns.

Shapes 3

Looking at how the patterns could use colour or even overlay to create a more confusing effect. I think the gradient works well but it's been done so many times I think it's lost it's speciality a bit. When overlayed I like how the colours multiply but the shapes become to confusing to follow.

Shapes 2

Experimenting with extending the shapes into one another to create almost impossible patterns, through looking closely at how the shapes work and how they can be interlinked and repeated. I'm really pleased with how these have turned out.

Shapes 1

These are my own three versions of the shapes I've come up with, I quite like the harsh shading but also think that they work really strongly on their own.

Impossible Shapes Progress

(images from wikipedia)

These are the three most famous impossible objects/shapes, the blivet, penrose triangle and necker cube. They're all shapes that I have been fascinated with over the last few years and I think it would be a really nice idea to use these three shapes as the basis for my set of prints. I want to see how I can use these shapes as a starting point and then experiment with them and make them my own.

Impossible Shapes 1

I've started to have a play around with the idea of geometric shapes that could be a basis of my limited edition screen prints. There seems to be three basic impossible shapes that are the most commonly recognised and used. I think it might be interesting to use these three shapes (penrose triangle, devils for and impossible cube) and a basis for three prints and to really push the application to form some new ideas. I have also been looking at classic uses of impossible shapes by artists by Escher. His painting are often dressed up with large elements of people and buildings, I thought it might be quite interesting to take some of these really famous uses of impossible shapes and take them completely back to basics and just shows the mechanics of how the illusion works, almost like modernist versions of the classics.