PrintAsArt is not so much of a client driven site with projects and postings like our other sites (see buttons above), it actually draws from the work we do on other sites and attempts to showcase the crossover in applications to give you ideas to personalise your own space, whether it be your home or office. Ideas often begin as a commercial application and are then adapted for personal use. Think wall decal applications now being used for interiors. This is an artistic interpretation of vinyl graphics which began as a logo treatment for vehicles, offices and all sorts of signage applications. But they’ve been given a new life, and adapted into a more fluid aesthetic design for the home ~ florals, shapes, lines, dots, animals, patterns, children’s vector art etc.

Let’s however start with a printed image on clear film, then applied to glass to create an aesthetic for National Sound & Film Archive …

This job came to taylormadesigns via Signaway Signs (Sydney). We printed the graphic onto clear film and sent it to Signaway Signs for their client National Film & Sound Archive. Here at the National Sound & Film Archive, the printed film has been applied by Signaway Signs to an inserted glass wall.

It is suggestive of an office space, or a library with books all in a row, or as the name suggests an archive. It is a visual walkway, both aesthetic, friendly and colourful, leading and enticing you to the entrance door.

We print a lot on clear film and have made a business out it with Wall Scrawl - printing layers on all sorts of film but more often than not, clear and semi clear film and then inserting the printed layer between two layers of perspex to serve as a funky memoboard. Printing on clear or semi clear film offers transparency; a screen but not a blockout, an artistic interpretation, an aesthetic addition (environmental graphics).

The idea behind PrintAsArt is to create something a bit more personal, homegrown; a bit of a shift away from generic and mass produced and soulless really. It seems to me that we are all looking for this in lots of ways ~ a more comfortable home with cherished items surrounding us, farmer’s markets, fresh produce, home grown vegetables, dinner parties with close friends, being more attentive to what we buy, best to buy for keeps than cheap and disposable and meaningless. Art has to mean something to you and PrintAsArt enables you to express your art in a number of ways ~ on canvas, perspex, film, fabric, window blinds, awnings. Your art can be anything, a piece of fabric with a beautiful pattern which can be scanned and reproduced just for you, a favourite photo, a collection of photos, a texture, your children’s artwork or poem or story, a family tree or as I have chosen here, graffiti. I took a picture of this graffiti which appears on our signwall - it means nothing to you but I like it. I like the colours; Ethan (our son) has written his name in bubble writing in bottom left hand corner and even though the text doesn’t make sense I kinda like that too. Don’t be afraid to express yourself with whatever resonates with you … With digital cameras today you can capture art everywhere, it takes nothing for us to scan a hi res image and print on a medium that appeals to you.