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Banners Aussie-style

Banners Aussie-style. Linda Sanders Creative Director Oz Feathers. HISTORY from 1998. Ripstop nylon, ¾ ounce, NOISY!! Quickly faded Double-fold seams, time consuming Rectangular cardboard templates Wooden broomstick anchor Whippy tip pole, poked through tops. EARLY DAYS.

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Banners Aussie-style

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  1. Banners Aussie-style Linda Sanders Creative Director OzFeathers

  2. HISTORY from 1998 • Ripstop nylon, ¾ ounce, NOISY!! • Quickly faded • Double-fold seams, time consuming • Rectangular cardboard templates • Wooden broomstick anchor • Whippy tip pole, poked through tops

  3. EARLY DAYS • Patterns hand drawn • Graph paper, pencil, eraser • Photocopy to enlarge • Cut-away applique • Ripstop nylon 1½ ounce sleeve

  4. COMPUTER use 2001 • Discovered Microsoft Publisher • Choose own fonts, size as needed • Print onto A4 paper • Print larger letters as tiles, stick together • Banner fabric on floor, tracing around printed letters QUIET!! Flows better. Tougher. Easy. BUT… Can’t spray glue. Stretch / bias.

  5. ONE-SIDED, first of its kind • SolarMax body with sew-on 1½ ounce ripstop lettering and cut-away appliqué • Message one-sided • Still a NEW concept for Australian businesses • 4 metres “waving” not been seen before

  6. Early ARTWORK 2003 • SES needed check pattern, Bargello self-taught • Balloons, scissor cut-away. Fraying? • Surf drawn full-size by hand. Scissor cut with slow-to-sew satin-stitch • Still frayed

  7. Deb Cooley – hot-cutting, ouch 1 day’s training at “Windfeathers” in Florida Hot cut ALL pieces & assemble like a jigsaw Need hot-cut tool and suitable light table Used glass-top dining table with reading lamp beneath FORT WORDEN, USA 2004

  8. Precut pieces, Logos 2004 • Lots of PRACTISE needed • Hand-drawn logos, enlarged • One school sent full-size patterns as A4 pieces sticky-taped together. • Fine lettering still one-sided

  9. DRAWING SOFTWARE • “CorelDraw” • Template “Blank”, Scale 1:20 • Each design drawn & saved in minutes • Simple to change fonts, sizing, position • FINAL DESIGN – take disk to printshop for printing full-size paper pattern, or…

  10. PROJECTOR (1) • Finished design is printed as a Transparency • Find a school with an overhead projector • Project & pencil draw onto large paper. Use chisel-point felt-tip pen to create cutting lines, approx. 4mm

  11. PROJECTOR (2) OPAQUE PROJECTOR“Epidiascope”Art supplies, US $600 2-piece design, project in 2 halves

  12. 2006 onwards • Wide Format Printer, big investment, sped up production time • Patterns print in less than 10 minutes • All seam / cutting lines a standard 3mm • Like “painting by numbers”

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