paperHAUS Screen Print service for graphics, Fine Art & fashion textiles

Bespoke screen print service service based in Hackney, equipped to produce high quality, very affordable screen prints on paper or fabric. Gallery standard screen printing and editioning service, working alongside the client to turn initial ideas into beautifully finished print editions. Working in collaboration with individuals to produce print editions for artists, designers, fashion makers and for galleries alike.

Considerable experience in screen print techniques. Ex Royal College of Art Print as well as having worked as a technician for a number of years with leading London based Screen Printers, K2 Screen. I’ve worked with experienced artists & fashion makers as well as graduates and beginners.

We specialise in printing finest quality art prints, posters, record sleeves as well as high end stationery. My clients include a range of established and emerging artists, illustrators, graphic designers,fashion makers and record labels.

THE SUPERCEDED SOUNDS OF THE NEW OBSOLESCENTS

Since discovering the Philips 21st Century Prospective series of French musique concrete LPs on tour in European the 90s, Kevin Foakes aka DJFood, had been fantasising about one day making a record with a Héliophore patterned silver foil cover. The patterns etched in the covers are achieved by minute differences in the angles of the foil coating which then reflects the light and appears to animate when moved. These legendary and increasingly expensive LPs contained critical works from an international array of leading artists in the tape and electro acoustic field, spearheaded by Pierre Henry who also released many of his own works on the label.

Tracking down the company who made the original Philips covers in France led to a dead end as they had long ceased to exist. But unknown to Kevin, a British company had managed to replicate the process under the name Dufex in the UK. Sadly they’d also wound up business in 2019 but via a chance encounter on a separate project he managed to find the final stocks of card from the business at a lighting company.

Once The New Obsolescents’ album was finalised, Kevin started to think about artwork and knew that this collision of tape loops and turntablism was the perfect record to sleeve in foil as a homage to the Philips series. Those familiar with the originals would immediately make the visual connection and it would set the tone for the sounds contained inside as the group name would be unfamiliar to most.

300 sheets in five different designs were handed over to us at paperHAUS, who carefully and expertly screen printed each panel with the cover design. Each sheet was then cut to a 12″x12″ size and painstakingly glued to each sleeve, pressed while drying and sleeved in PVC outers, making sure not to scratch the foil which is extremely delicate.

Format: 12” Coloured Vinyl LP in Screen Printed Foil Board Sleeve. Hand Assembled by DJ Food

THE SUPERCEDED SOUNDS OF THE NEW OBSOLESCENTs. Black Prism Second Edition

Following the immediate sell out of the first Duflex foil edition of THE SUPERCEDED SOUNDS OF THE NEW OBSOLESCENTS , designer Strictly Kev started to look for sleeve options for a repress that would equal the beautiful invention of that initial edition of the album. He discovered a new card stock which has a prism effect and which gives the viewer an illusion of depth.

Inverting the the original design and printing white onto black, the card was handed to paperHAUS, screen printing the covers on various holographic Mirri CArd, before they were sent for assembly.

To compliment the new design, a pressing of silver and white vinyl was chosen, making this new edition perhaps even more breathtakingly covetable than the first.

De:tuned ANNIVERSARY DE.10.10 exclusive poster

DE:10.10 poster(De:tuned)2019

2019 marked the 10th anniversary of Belgium’s De:tuned label and they released nine 12″s, one a month, throughout the year. The tenth and final 12″ required something special. This vinyl release came with silver ink and silver foil as well as CMYK and initial copies came on silver vinyl. A poster was designed by Open Minded Design, the graphic design alias of Kevin Foakes / aka DJ Food / Strictly Kev, with whom I worked closely to create a six colour A2 art print. This six colour image featured the full modular from the cover of the release, designed to showcase all the artists in the series. The resultant print was screen printed by paperHAUS in an edition of 100. This project took a lot of trial and error to achieve, running many tests with inks, paper samples and screen densities to achieve the print quality desired.

Designers Republic x De:tuned sT8818r Humanoid Print

Specially designed for Bleep by Ian Anderson, head at iconic 90’s design agency Designers Republic, paperHAUS worked on this exclusive art poster print edition, using elements from Ian’s sT8818r Humanoid artwork. The original EP, from which the poster lent it’s design, took material from the first decisive UK acid techno record to break into the mainstream as well as remixes from Autechre, Luke Vibert and Mike Dred. Hand printed paperHAUS at our London studio, in a numbered edition of 100.

• Acrylic screen print

• Hand printed by Jonas Ranson at paperHAUS London

• GFSmith Nutralis 300gsm archival paper

• Artwork by The Designers Republic

• CM (Pantone 806) YK overprinted with Pantone 877 texture

• Hand numbered edition of 100

The Designers Republic (also tDR, and styled as The Designers Republic) is a British graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips. They are best known for electronic music logos, album artwork,  and anti-establishment aesthetics, embracing "brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands". Work by tDR is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

bleep records. SCALPING. Flood art print

Bleep exclusive

• Limited hand numbered edition of 30

• Hand screen printed by Jonas Ranson at paperHAUS

• 4 colour acrylic screen print with Lascaux metallic layer

• 330gsm GFSmith Nutralis Archival Paper

Exclusive deluxe screen print designed by the band using reinterpreted elements from the artwork from their EP Flood, released on Houndstooth

There is nothing better to compliment the physical impressions that produce the records than a hand printed record sleeve. Screen printing yields a unique and individual print quality with a real hand crafted feel that is just not obtainable with standard digitally printed options.

Vibrant colours can be produced using a full four colour build of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. This method allows for any number of colours to be printed more economically, ensuring stunning results at a fraction of the cost.

We also print in a wide range of Pantone options, as well as mettalic and fluorescent colours

Beautifully printed sleeves with high attention to detail, excellent colour matching and coverage. Perfect for detailed artwork, slick style design, and sophisticated music.

We can print sleeves in quantities from small to large, standard 7”, 10” and 12” single and album sizes too.

We realise musicians and bands sometimes have a hard time finding affordable, yet professional designs to help promote their music. We can also design sleeve artwork, working up clients initial ideas and mood boards with stunning results. It needs to reflect your sound, and help create a buzz for upcoming releases.

I have years of experience with dealing with musicians, I know how musicians think and what they want, because I am a musician myself, as well as a printer and designer.

The printmaking process usually starts with hand-made or photographic images that we transfer onto screens ready for printing.  Artwork may be drawn or painted on to transparent film. It may be hand-cut from paper or masking film or it may be any type of digital image: a photograph, a scan of a painting or drawing or an image created in the computer. Our service is flexible and we do our best to accommodate the needs of all of our clients. If you have something that you’re interested in having screen printed, please do get in touch. I aim to make the transition from artwork to finished article as simple as possible.

ARTWORK SUBMISSION:

If you already have your artwork, you need to send it to me, preferably as a PSD, PDF, AI or TIFF file at 300dpi. I will then send you an estimate for your project as a whole.

ARTWORK SETUP:

If you're not sure how to format your artwork as above I can set up your project for you for a small fee. Send your artwork in whatever filetype/size and i'll let you know if there is any additional artwork preparation I need to do. Please email and I can discuss your requirements in more detail.

CUSTOM DESIGN:

If you require artwork to be designed, whether for a poster, record sleeve packaging, invites etc.. I can create a unique piece for you. I specialise in graphic design and illustration, from hand-drawn artworks straight through to high detail Photoshop tablet creations. I can design anything from simple lettering utilising unique fonts, straight through to full scale album artwork, or screen printable gig posters. 

Screen printed graphics are some of the most beautiful promotional and collectable pieces brands can make. Brands benefit from eye catching art that promotes your message while giving consumers something more than plain advertisements to look at.

You can use screen printed posters to elevate your brand by creating art instead of standard promo flyers.

Screen Printed Posters are a unique and interesting way to create both art and promotional materials. Expand your design by experimenting with different types of inks and paper stocks and other upgrades to create truly one of a kind pieces.

Screen printing is the best option for designs that require a high level of vibrancy. The ink in screen printing is applied thicker than digital printing, which results in brighter colours.

Screen printing really is unrivalled when it comes to flexibility. You can print on almost anything as a surface (as long as it’s flat) including plastic, fabric, metal and wood to name just a few meaning the design you create could be turned into signs, office stationary and much much more!

Screen printing is also really flexible when it comes to product shape making the process even more hassle free if you are looking to print designs onto slightly more obscure shaped products.

Gradients can be achieved with screen printing and will leave you with a crisp, sharp design. Screen printed designs are typically much more durable than the likes of heat press or digital designs which is due to the technique laying down thick layers of ink which are absorbed by the material, leading to enhanced durability, especially when a product will be under direct contact with sunlight, often causing them to fade which is a common characteristic of digital printing for example.

Four colour process screen printing takes some additional time, knowledge and setup, but this process offers artists and designers opportunities to create more painterly, subtle and complex artworks and photographs.

4 Colour Process printing was developed to reproduce full-colour artwork accurately when printed on white paper. Essentially, a decent sized gamut of visible colour can be represented by printing various densities of the primary colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.

Indeed, this typically works great on paper and on-screen,

The four CMYK colours – cyan, magenta, yellow and black – are
combined to create beautiful results with four colour process printing.

While all good screen printing begins with good artwork, quality artwork becomes even more important when printing a four colour process. It’s imperative that high-resolution images are used for your four colour process jobs. I can provide this as part of the service by offering to photograph works at high resolution using a high quality Leica digital SLR.

When it comes time to print your four colour process job, you will print from the lightest colour to the darkest, so your colour order will be yellow, magenta, cyan, black. The goal with four colour process screen printing is to have the ink colours blend to create a myriad of tones.

Rock Roll Repeat takes you on a trip back to the heady days of eighties London and its favourite club haunts, Blitz & Cha Cha Club, with Cultural Icons Scarlett Cannon & Princess Julia, as well as the photography of Dick Scott-Stewart. Each shirt was is printed by hand in London by Paper Haus. 

Scarlett Cannon Shirt. Scarlett was one of the key faces of the 1980s when youthful London was a city sharply divided. On one side, the moneyed mobs of yuppies and Hooray Henrys. On the other, the more straightened but super-stylish creative tribes who were inspired by the legacy of punk to revolutionise the worlds of art, fashion, music & magazine publishing. Scarlett firmly inhabited the latter camp, whose stunning and frequently gender-bending style was given full throttle in their club-haunts — Billys, Blitz, Heaven, Cha Cha, the Wag, and Taboo — as well as acoss the pages of The Face, i-D, and Blitz.

Lipstick Shirt . Take a look inside the Blitz Club, circa 1981 with photographer Dick Scott-Stewart. Scott-Stewart was a freelance photographer and an admirer of the great European and American black and white photographers, using high contrast and a vivid use of light and dark to distinctively portray those with “a withdrawal from and opposition to the realities of the present”, who he saw “escaping...into their music, their dress style, their meeting places” during the late 1970s and post-punk era in London.

“Scott-Stewart related most strongly to those he saw as facing certain struggles in life, who lived on the periphery. His images of youth subculture reflect how individuals congregate, survive in their groups and strive to move against the tide of the mainstream." - Anna Sparham, Museum of London

Princess Julia Shirt . Blipping on to the cult radar as a teenager in the late 70s, as one of the so-called Blitz Kids, Julia – who first became a "Princess" in the early 80s – has been in the mix of London club culture ever since. Princess Julia is regarded by many as 'London Royalty' and has been an integral part of the London fashion and art scene for many decades. From her days at PX, to starring in Visage’s 'Fade to Grey video, to making waves as a DJ with legendary London nights at The Wag, The Daisy Chain, Kinky Gerlinky, and Queer Nation, she continues to leave an indelible mark on everything she touches...

"I'm very much a Londoner and I have been part of the scene for decades. You have to own your own look – that's what I have done, but it's quite by accident." 

- Princess Julia

DECODE: zero waste design

DECODE is a complete zero waste design system that solves industry problems through communication, sharing, and play. Founder, Danielle Elsener, has dedicated her life's work to proving zero waste as a valid and robust design model. For over a decade, she has learned from industry, educational institutions, and self-run initiatives to understand how best to do this. What began as a love for puzzle solving through zero waste pattern-making, became a way to fix the fashion industry’s biggest problem. paperHAUS worked closley with DECODE to print lengths of fabric which was used for this collection.

DECODE likes to think of problem-solving in terms of puzzles. They enjoy the challenge of creating no-waste patterns on a swath of fabric.

JIM DAVIDSON STUDIO

paperHAUS have enjoyed working with illustrator & St Martins School of Art Lecturer James Davidson on regular commisions of hand printed sweats and t shirts, incorporating James’s bold, dynamic and painterly designs.

I love the delicate color variation in a hand pulled ground, and how the screened pattern adds a subtle texture to the paper.

I believe hand printed processes make a huge difference. I believe in using our hands whenever possible. The quality of the paper, the colour, and how the pattern is printed are all equally important factors.

My service offers an opportunity to create a personal and unique surface design and wallpapers. Suitable for those who wish to have their favourite current design in a particular colour. Depending on design style and complexity, I offer a breadth of printing techniques, employing methods relevant to each design.  I have used many years of experience to refine special techniques such as metallics and varnishes.