Monday, January 11, 2016

Industrial Training

Week 6 (4 Jan – 8 Jan)

6.         Continuing the remaining design that is required. For the sixth design, starting it with round shapes with the idea like bubbles and names of group members in the bubbles. This tee shirt design is called bubbles.

  
Starting design with round shapes.

The shapes are duplicated to fill it with more bubbles and to add more space for names in it.


When satisfied of round shapes that unites as bubbles, they are joined all together. This is to avoid breaking it up into pieces and looking messy. Then, sampling ‘name’ were filled to show how does it look as it has been filled with names.


 

Sample of how names filled in bubble design.


Later on this design were attached on a vector tee in Ai to keep it as draft and soft copy of the work. Additional design can be added by customers if needed to this tee shirt design.



The design in applied on model images (source: internet) that is given by the company. This is due to drafting the designs for customer references.


 
Sample of design 6

7.         Following the next design, is the A-maze-ing design. This particular design is made of maze style. The names and shapes are made of maze game board. The names are placed in each sides of the maze’s wall.

 
Maze type design with name sampling.


The same process were carried on this design by placing it in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.

Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet).

 
Sample of design 7


8.         While thinking for the next design, my free time game inspired of a design to be used for the school commercial tee design. This design is about crosswords. It contain names as in cross forms. Alphabets are arranged mixed and according to name sampling.

 
Forming names in crossword style.

This design then placed in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.


 Placing design into a tee shirt vector in Ai.

Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet ).

 Sample of design 8.

9.         Next design for the commercial school tee is Splatter. This design is a splat shape design that is filled with names in it. Starting the design by creating the splat shape and filling it with names.

 

Creating splat shape.


 
Filling name samples in splat shape.

Placing the design in a vector t-shirt for draft copy of the design. Attaching the design in a vector is for sampling and record purpose.


 
Attaching design in vector.

At the end of this design, it is applied on a model image (source: internet) for log book copy.

 
Sample of design 9.


10.       Final design for the commercial school t-shirt is about friend+ship. This design is specially named for old friends and long term friendship. It is started with a shape of ship in it.

 

The ship design were filled with name samples and by grouping it with a ‘FRIEND’ typeface in a square box. This is a combination of typeface and shape that gives a different meaning or word.

 



Placing the design in a vector t-shirt for draft copy of the design. Attaching the design in a vector is for sampling and record purpose.





At the end of this design, it is applied on a model image (source: internet) for log book copy.

Sample of design 10.

During the week by designing, the pre-production work are also carried on as usual. Pre-production such as Silhouette cutting, vinyl printing and vinyl peeling process.







Saturday, January 2, 2016

Industrial Training

Week 5 ( 28 Dec – 31  Dec)


Commercial tee shirt for school are mostly ordered and produced in Hotspot printing. Therefore, 10 sample tee shirt design were required for the log book of the company. These 10 designed are required to be fresh and new in market.

1.         Firstly the idea of my design was about numbers. The reason of selecting number is because student of secondary school that demands numerical design as following year they finished studying.


The number typeface were transformed to outlines as in shape form.




Sample names were typed and placed in the number shape by clipping mask method.




Then lastly for this design, the typeface with numerical shape were placed such as printed on tee shirt. Moving on it, the design were required to be installed in a sample picture that is given in the company (source: internet).



Sample of design 1


2.         Moving on to my next design which is called Formal. This design is about the way of dressing and identity. So, for gents, tie was a very significant symbol. Hence, the tie shape was given with typeface of names in it by clip masking it.





The same process were carried on to the second design by placing it in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.




Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet).

Sample of design 2


3.         Next design for the commercial tee called Ipad. This design contains app icons with names in it. This design is a suitable design for students that is active in technology and apps.



 



The same process were carried on this design by placing it in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.



Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet).

 

Sample of design 3




4.         Moving on to the next, it is called Facebook Friends. This tee shirt is for the one who are friend in both Facebook and real life friends. It has a slogan ‘WE ARE NOT FB FRIENDS, WE ARE REAL FRIENDS’ on the shirt.



This design used the symbol ‘f’ for facebook and it was applied to shape and then added names by clipping mask tool in Ai.






The same process were carried on this design by placing it in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.

  


Sample of design 4

Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet).


5.         The fifth design is about Tag. This design is a tag that contains typeface of names in a tag. The names in the tag is the list of friends or members of a group.




The names in the tag is attached by the help of clipping mask. All the designs of this company are applied with the same method. This is due to the file format that is used to be attached in the Cameo Silhouette cutter driver application. This application able to trace PNG file images. Thus, all the files of design are saved in PNG format.






The process were carried on this design by placing it in a vector tee shirt for sampling the design.



Sample of design 5

Then, it was applied to a sample image of model which is given by the company (source: internet).




Monday, December 28, 2015

Industrial Training

Week 4 (21 Dec – 25 Dec)


At the beginning of week 4, a requirement of a banner to be designed were requested due to the new shop and place of the company. The instruction were given is to be simple, spacious, theme coloured (red and black) and summarised details of the services of the company.
Firstly, the banner was planned to be white in background with black and red lines to maintain the theme colour.



Other than those lines, the company logo placed at the top left of the banner. The top left angle selected because to show the title of the banner which is the logo of the company.



After that, typeface of services and type tee shirt printing to be placed on it. This is as the requirement of the supervisor.






After aligning the typeface correctly in place the banner need some inspection of supervisor for critic and additional details. This banner design was never bothered and the supervisor designed a different banner which is very similar with this.



Pre-production processes were worked while designing the banner. Mostly, pre-production as printing the I-dot paper, vinyl cutting, measuring tees, and peeling vinyl and i-dot papers were the majority worked on.





Sunday, December 20, 2015

Industrial Training

Week 3 (14 Dec – 18 Dec)

Designing flyers
Since having a discussion in a group with all 4 members of the company, a flyer design were required by the employer for distribution around the town of Kajang. First of all, I started collecting some pictures of the previous works of the company to be included in the flyer. Then by the idea of attaching some previous work with some fonts and some printing service, I sketched one idea based on the requirement.


Sketched flyers initial idea (accepted)



While handling all the pre-production processes, in between started to work on designing the flyers design in Adode Illustrator. First of all, I tried to attach the accepted sketch into Ai to get as what have planned.



This is how I started designing the flyers. Moving on it, design process by placing a textured background design for the flyer.

Red textured background

Then, fonts and promotional typefaces as planned.

Typeface placement



Previous work advertising


 
Caption box placement


Including the services and type of products.



Almost at the completing stage.

While running the initial pre-production for the other clients and designing the flyers. This idea was rejected (no reason). Different type of flyers are started to be designed by the supervisor. Continued settling customer’s orders and pre-production works as usual.


Friday, December 11, 2015

Industrial Training

Week 2 (7 Dec – 11 Dec)
Hotspot printing company uses two main types of quality of shirts. One is 160 Gsm meanwhile the other is 180 Gsm for the round neck tees. Collar t-shirts are called polo t-shirts. This is because the economical brand that is used for client/customer’s requirement. Polo tees are usually at 190 Gsm.
Empiric is the tee brand used in this company for round necks. They come in purple, orange, white, pale pink, blue, yellow, green, pink, apple green, brown, red, aqua blue and black. These type of tee are available in both short and long sleeves.


Other than knowing all these qualities and working processes, handling the works such as attaching the design in Cameo Silhouette desktop driver and cutting it in Cameo Silhouette cutter. Other than that running work such as peeling the vinyl off are the works that included in my routine. Besides, running the company’s pre-production is the main responsible now. It takes more than an hour to settle one order of t-shirt at the count of 5 pieces. The more quantity of orders, the more time taken to run the process. Conclusively, one day work of pre-production might go up to 8 hours.

Conclusion

This whole week in this company is about working on the pre-production which is the initial process of running the printing services. Other than all these work, managing and writing order sheets are included in the pre-production task.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Industrial Training

Week 1 (31 Nov - 4 Dec)
           
          
First day duty in Hotspot Printing was to learn about the materials and the procedures of designing and printing on t-shirt. Basically, in this company, there are two main methods used for printing on t-shirts. They are heat press (vinyl), silk screen (fabric paint) and paper transfer (i-dot paper). Silkscreening process are not usually performed in the company. It is taken to head branch which is in Cheras.

Type of materials and methods of production

Vinyl


I-dot paper

            Vinyl are usually used to cut by a cutter called Cameo Silhouette cutter that cuts according to the Silhouette drive application. On the other side, the paper transfer process are similarly done but in additional process it has to be pattern printed on the i-dot paper before cutting it using the Cameo Silhouette cutter.


Vinyl cutting progress using Cameo Silhouette cutter

Moving on to I-dot paper, they are printed before cutting it in the Cameo Silhouette cutter. This is to avoid the pattern to be overprinted on the I-dot sheet.


I-dot printing


The cutting process of I-dot paper are similar with the vinyl cutting process which by Cameo Silhouette cutter. Depending on the design that is printed on the I-dot paper, specific type of design no involvement of Cameo Silhouette cutter. As an example design such as logos and shapes with fixed design in it.


Before (left) and after (right) of I-dot cutting on printed paper


After printing and cutting all the design and patterns, these two type of papers are peeled off from the protective sheet and heated on t-shirt to stick it permanently by a manual machine called Heatpress Machine.

Continuing on the introduction of the company, the management has planned to shift the company to Kajang and the introduction of the materials and the processes were stopped till there to the end of the week one.