We’re stoked to present a selection of Risograph projects from some of the talented members of our community. The Risograph printer works by using spot colours and stencils to create highly textured, vibrant, and affordable prints. Our members have used this printing method to bring a variety of their works to life, from greetings cards, to screen print reinterpretations, and illustrative posters.
Rag and Tone Studio: Fun-Gal and Fun-Guy Cards
Wish a HBD to the Fun-Gal or Fun-Guy in your life with Rag and Tone’s new Risograph printed Birthday cards. Inspired by Victorian botanical and floral etchings, they are hand illustrated in pen and ink before being digitally art-worked into two colour designs. All of the studio’s cards are printed using eco friendly soy and rice based inks, and these utilise the bold Gold and Neon colours that Riso is renowned for, in the hopes to emulate the magical qualities of the mighty mushroom! Printed in Flat Gold and Fluorescent Orange, on 100% recycled paper, they come supplied with a recycled manilla envelope.
Lemonni: Floral Notecards
These notecards are based on floral patterns Lemonni created digitally. She studied the shapes of different types of flowers and translated them into geometric forms. “Using Risograph is a fun way to express the patterns in a more tactile way, which also add more charms to it because of the imperfections from Risograph printing,” says the illustrator.
Julie Pernet: The Lurking One
This Risograph print by illustrator Julie Pernet was reproduced from a watercolour painting, in three Risograph layers (blue, fluo orange and black). It is part of a watercolour series that explores our relationship to ecosystems and to the Living. Printed in Les Ateliers du Toner in Brussels.
Becky Mann: Risograph Illustrations
Becky Mann first became interested in Risograph printing a few years ago as she loved the way the colours overlapped, creating new ones using only a very limited colour palette. She decided to look into various Risograph printers in England and came across Duplikat, a studio based in Hackney, London. Duplikat use a vast range of different colours for their prints, however she started off with the classics; cyan, magenta, and yellow. Cyan and yellow would then create green, magenta and yellow; orange and cyan and magenta; purple. Since then, Becky has experimented with more and less colours to create her illustrations. She tells us; “I think my work lends its self well to risograph printing as I use a lot of often quite simple colour and shapes, however the techniques you can come up with layering and erasing colour are endless.”
Wen Ching Yiu, Krystine: The B-liens
The B-liens are 12 Archetypes in this human world. Wen Ching Yiu collected her old toys, deconstructed, and reconstructed them painlessly and playfully. The illustrator comments; “Although colours may fade away over time, the order change of colours and layers, the new creatures are to explore how toys and memories carry our distinctive existences, and how individuality affects community. Identities build personalities; personalities shape us.” The collection is printed in CMYK method in Risograph. Being experimental with the colour combinations, she mixed original CMYK colours in different orders in small prints, to explore the diversity and playfulness of Risograph.
VrijFormaat: Extra Ordinary
Extra Ordinary is an ongoing series of Riso prints from VrijFormaat that celebrate the objects that we use almost daily without a concious realisation of the ingenius design or world-changing concept behind them. “So what is a roll of film doing here? Not exactly a daily object these days. Well, we come from a time that they were… and yes we’re that old.”
Hannah Brown: Screen Prints into Risograph
Printmaker Hannah Brown decided to take some of her existing screen print experiments and turn them into Riso prints. This was a great way for her to learn more about setting up files for Risograph and getting the greyscale just right. “I took a bit of a risk and didn’t think too much about what I was doing, but I love the results. This process is pretty addictive,” says Hannah.
Abigail Fairhurst: Koi Pond
Koi Pond is an A3 Risograph, two colour print made from orange and green ink and printed on natural off white recycled, 190gsm paper. Abigail tells us; “I have always been fascinated by these beautiful fish that can live up to 100 years old! There is something wise and mystical about them, and I love all the amazing patterns they have along their scales, so I wanted to capture this in a fun risograph print.”
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