Test Your Fate: Vinyl

Initially, the designs for the main board where going to be printed onto sticker paper as one sheet however vinyl was suggested as a better option as it would allow for the same colour throughout and for a cleaner, bolder finish. Therefore blue vinyl was cut to the size of the board with white vinyl being used for the design. The white vinyl was printed as one sheet so the design would register with the holes on the blue (see figures 1-2).  

The main difficulty faced whilst preparing the vinyl was removing all the excess white without any of the text coming off in the process. As a serif typeface was used this made the process more difficult as the serif's tended to stick to the surrounding white vinyl making the removal process very difficult. Furthermore due to the size of the piece the white was removed in sections to minimise errors however some letters still came off during the process (see figures 3-6). This wasn't too concerning as they could be recut and places on after. Once all the white had been removed sticky back plastic is used to allow the vinyl to be transferred however this was difficult to done on my own due to the size of the piece. Therefore the first attempt went wrong as the vinyl curled up resulting in lumps meaning the piece couldn't be used. Therefore the second vinyl was cut out however the text was very difficult to deal with within this piece as the vinyl cutter hadn't cut some of the letters as well as others resulting in large errors (see figure 5). Consequently more white vinyl was cut and smaller sections cut out at a time to make the process easier. This allowed for fewer errors as there were fewer elements to be aware of at once meaning more attention could be given to each element. 

The smaller vinyl used for the backglass was much easier to prep as the text and illustrations where much larger. This meant the excess white was easier to remove as the bigger illustrations and text were less likely to come off alongside the excess (see figures 7-8). 

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