I really love these competition based projects, and even more, I love screen printing. So I figured it was about time to make up for past failures and produce this poster with the silk screen process. This competition was put forth by Enmark who sponsors the grueling run up the “south’s toughest bridge.” I personally take that assertion to heart as I meekly made my way up the bridge on my bike to grab some shots of what the bridge might look like as your run up it. The limitations of the project where that it had to be a three color job, sized 11×17, and the Enmark logo had to be in it along with the supplied copy, thats it. After collecting said shots and tons of sketching I decided on the design. I felt it was clean, simple, big and bold. Once that was done the real work began… What a way to kick off production design.

I can honestly say that producing this poster was a culmination of two full days (and late nights) of work and endless trouble shooting. I felt as if it was fighting me every step of the way, literally trying it hardest to keep me from success. I kept my head up and continued forward, and only one bruised fist later I had this stunningly beautiful print, worth all the missed sleep and frustration.

In addition to the poster there was a shirt design required that will be given out for the run, and in its design I just kept it the same and I feel like it translated well onto fabric. First place yields 400 smackers, so hopefully the judges will like what they see.