Banners Aussie-style

Linda SandersCreative Director

OzFeathers

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

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

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.

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

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

FORT WORDEN, USA 2004

• 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

• 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

Precut pieces, Logos 2004

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…

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

PROJECTOR (2)

OPAQUE PROJECTOR“Epidiascope”

Art supplies, US $6002-piece design, project in 2

halves

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”