Football Scout & The Festival of Football Ideas

 
Physicality, determination, awareness, creativity, aggression.

Football Player Scouts evaluate the talents of footballers with the aim to sign new players to a club.
Boy & Girl Scouts collect merit badges to demonstrate their achievements in various pursuits and activities.

These metaphorical merit badges are collected by football players to show off their skills and technical attributes.

… or you can buy them and sew them onto your jacket!



Football Scout is also a 3 colour screenprint for the Miniature Print exhibition at The Festival of Football Ideas, Bristol

The Festival of Football Ideas explores football art, literature, music, comedy and much much more, and runs from May 30 – June 14, 2014. There is loads of events for everyone – you don’t have to like football!



The print is on show with 32 other amazing artists at the festival venue (which happens to be a big silver football! see!) and also at the Beatroot cafe on Lower Park Row, Bristol.

Process

As always, the best place to start is the sketch book. You can see a few ideas forming on the pages below, including football scout and bacteria football which I would love to do sometime.

The lists helped to figure out the final badges to bring forward to artwork and produce from all the possible choices. I suppose this also shows the set could be expandable in future.

 

Digital embroidery

Inspired by embroidered football club emblems and scout merit badges – I originally wanted to make my submission for the Festival of Football Ideas as the embroidered versions, however there was not enough time left for me to do this due to how busy the facilities were at the art school, but I booked in and started teaching myself the embroidery software which is Wilcom EmbroideryStudio e3.

The software was a bit tricky to begin with, having already started digitising the badges in Illustrator, trying to work between the two programmes was a bit of a waste of time. After spending a bit of time doing some tests, playing around with the different tools and redrawing artwork, things started to speed up and the symbols were all looking really good. The text was the next issue…

I wanted the badges to remain very small, all are between 30-40mm. At this size the text is unreadable because it is impossible to stitch – so it will work better to only embroider the symbols – was worth a test to see how far it can be pushed.

Sample testing different methods for stitching the text at a small font size:



Next was finalising the colours and the order of stitching – then going ahead to get them embroidered…

Video of badges in progress:

Buy Football Scout badges

Football Scout

£5.99

 

Buy Football Scout screenprint

Prints are priced £25. Please contact The Festival of Football Ideas.
Email: hello@fofi.org.uk  twitter: @bristol_fofi

El Bosque

Studio Oh! No! recently printed and hand bound El Bosque.
El Bosque is a small edition of artists books written by Danixa and illustrated by Beto Jet-o. The book was printed and finished completely by hand by Jono Sandilands.
The book pages and covers were first screenprinted. This time-lapse video shows the process of hand finishing the book: trimming, folding and binding using the Three Hole Pamphlet Stitch with red waxed thread.
In real-time the finishing process alone took between 10-12 minutes per booklet.

Careers in Facial Hair

Artwork

This project stemmed from sketches done whilst thinking about badge designs for the recent Button Badge Design Competition. Thinking circularly I sketched a few ideas based around character faces, and noticed they each had facial hair, not something that was originally planned!
Pushing this idea forward, I asked: which jobs require you to have facial hair? It’s pretty much standard that jobs don’t really require this so there is scope for a bit of fun, my ideas were lumberjack, french chef, pirate and English gentleman. I don’t know if there are much career prospects in some of these jobs, so maybe don’t come to me for career advice.
After scribbling down the initial thumbnail sketches, I knew I wanted to do some experimentation and practice in printmaking and work on a larger scale than the button badges… Looking down at my glass on the table it suddenly comes to me… Coasters! Screenprinted onto wood.
My final drawings were done on layout paper full size. I have developed a method for art-working some of my illustration work and want to describe it as it sort of covers a part of my background and understanding about some past work.
First draw basic lines of the piece in reverse. Next add areas I want coloured and shadowed in marker pen, I want it to bleed through to the other side of the paper (which will be the front). Finally and most laboriously I use a scalpel to cut the areas I want as black lines and detail. I find this method to improve the quality of the line work from my pencil lines, it’s a bit like a stencil but I am using the scalpel like a pencil in a way… a stencil pencil? No? Anyway, the lines become more organic and grow, from my initial basic lines into something which just seems to work so much better than I can ever draw in pencil or pen.
I think this method is good and bad – it’s sometimes a total pain, yet I feel attached to it in my artwork generation because everything I do with it seems to work well. I’m trying to move away from the method, and there is potential in some of the new printmaking techniques I am learning on the course at UWE. Certainly as I learn more about relief print, but also perhaps there’s something in etching.
Anyway, for now my artwork ready for the next stage:

Printing & Production

Thinking of production now, I look at pre-cut coasters, but quickly scrapped that idea, as thought it would be too fiddly to print 2 colours onto a circular shape and retain registration. The next obvious choice is lasercutting.
Lasercutting has been something which I’ve always wanted to explore. As I started researching about how it is done and where I can get them cut – I found a few places in Bristol (forgetting about UWE at this point as I need induction which is scheduled in January). I came by Bristol Design Forge, a bespoke laser cutting and engraving company. Perfect. After some advice how to set up the files from Neil, I convert my final drawings to vectors using Illustrator.
The plan is to lasercut wood which has already been screenprinted. I will also set the files up to etch the areas of detail into the coaster so all that needs to be printed is the solid areas of colour. It’s an experiment, and a learning curve but hopefully you agree, one with a good outcome!

Artwork to be Screenprinted

Lasercut vectors (red cut. black etch)

First colour printed on the wood

Lasercutting & etching in progress

Packaging

The packaging is a box which holds the set of four together. The box is screenprinted, cut and folded completely by hand.

Buy

The coasters are available to buy online here.

Lighten & Lyrical

Collaboration with Shetland based artist and textile designer Barbara Ridland. Part of Shetland International Textile Festival 2013.

I worked alongside Barbara to help her realise the printmaking potential in her work. We setup a DIY screenprint studio in Barbara’s existing knitwear studio to experiment with different methods to transfer the knitwear to print - including how existing knitwear can be scanned or photographed, then processed before being output to film to expose to the screen.

Knitting studio come DIY print studio setup...

... help from Harriet! Making sure we were doing it right :D

We also experimented by exposing a piece of knitwear directly to the screen which gave great results. Both methods were used in the final work.

Exposing knitwear directly to the screen

During the project I advised how one of the semi-transparent pieces could have an interactive element, that when someone was in close proximity to the object, a light would be activated and start pulsing at different speeds - almost like a lighthouse or a beacon in the sea. I used Arduino with a motion sensor and an LED within one of the pieces which made it subtly glow when someone was nearby.

Arduino was concealed in an adapted switch box, with motion sensor on the front

First test with blue LED - before changing to white LED

Final Photography: Chloe Tallack
(Process Snaps by Jono)

The Art of Ping Pong exhibition - Bristol

The Art of Ping Pong will be exhibiting from 14 April - 6 June 2014 as part of Platform 14 "Connecting..." at the Engine Shed, Bristol.

Platform14 is a new exhibition space for imagination and innovation – allowing us to connect to the world around us through creative experimentation.

Connecting… forms the first exhibition on this new platform. It’s a journey through a circuit of shapes and colours, of art and technology, of past and future – through inspiration and collaboration.

It explores the relationship between creativity and technology, our engagement with the world and the potential for creative development.

Featuring work by Florrie James and Nick James, Hannah Blight Anderson, Jono Sandilands, Kim Brunner, Arthur Buxton, Olivia Jones and Sarah Jeffs

14 April - 6 June 2014
Monday-Friday 8.30am-5.30pm
Free Entry

Private preview Friday 11 April
4.00pm - 7.00pm

Engine Shed
Station Approach, Temple Meads, Bristol BS1 6QH Directions
0117 915 1271
www.engine-shed.co.uk
@connecting_14
@EngineShed_BB  #Platform14


The Art of Ping Pong Exhibition from Jono Sandilands on Vimeo.

Stereohype Button Badge Competition

Delighted to announce four of my submissions to the 9th Annual Button Badge Design Competition #STBBDC by Stereohype have won the Special Stereohype Prize (set of 4) for 2013. The designs, which can be seen below, are four of the total of the 30 badges produced for this year and join the amazing and growing collection by Stereohype.

See and buy my four designs: http://www.stereohype.com/pages/bcomp13_JonoSandilands.asp
Shortlist 2013 and list of judges: http://www.stereohype.com/pages/CompetitionShortlist2013.asp
Winners 2004–2013: http://www.stereohype.com/pages/products_CompetitionWinners.asp
 

All the winning badges since 2004 (top) to 2013 (bottom)

I Saw You (Cut)

Meat Tin

Shuttlecock

Have Your Cake

Halloween by Co:Lab

Co:Lab have come together after a bit of a break to release some new Halloween inspired screenprints. Prints by New Dead Language, Beto Jet-O and myself who form the 3 team members of the Co:lab outfit.

The prints are the very first project for Studio Oh! No!
Available to buy here: studio-oh-no.com/shop/project1-halloween/

Video by Beto below: