Fionn (that’s me?) has a B.Eng in Print Media Technologies from HdM Stuttgart.

While studying, I worked as assistant manager and technician in the screen printing lab at HdM, assisting with student projects and leading workshops. I have also worked extensively with printed electronics and conductive pastes. We worked extensively with the battery manufacturer Varta on various projects to create fully screen printed, flat, alkaline batteries. This was quite some time ago and Im not sure if i can publish anything about this research on the internet, but I will be happy to talk about the process more during our interview.

Since graduating in February, I have returned to HdM to give a guest lecture about experimental textile printing as part of the industrial printing course. The presentation can be seen below (unfortunately the fonts don’t load so it looks a little basic, but I think you’ll get the point).

I am currently employed at Big Image GmbH, a large-format textile printing company based in Potsdam, working in the R&D department on process innovation on and off the press, with a specialization in developing and implementing sustainable processes to deal with dead-stock textile leftover pieces and prevent the material from disposal. I’ve included a reduced version of my bachelor thesis presentation dealing with the same topic ((REMOVED) sensitive info under NDA) displayed below.

Furthermore, Fionn actively teaches screen printing workshops as pop-up events and in collaboration with local organizations, with an upcoming specialist teaching spot at a local youth center in Berlin underway in the next few months. I have included the proposal for the project below, since it has not yet started.

As this page is dedicated to showcasing an overview of a range of accomplishments in print, the following images are examples of more creative printing projects from the last few months. The photo below shows a screen print workshop that I organized during the Ramba Zamba event at Fridas Pier in Stuttgart.

During the workshop we began testing out experimental techniques of dripping the cleaning water over the shirts, spray painting a mist of color over the wet areas so that it wouldn’t adhere to the shirt in those areas, and then printing over this as the background color. We also tested some prints in non-standard areas of the clothing pieces. SOME Sample photos below.

The next images illustrate some tests I made at work to see if our printing machines could be used reasonably to print on ready made clothing garments. I started by trying a pair of jeans. Although the image reproduction wasn’t perfect due to the large offset distance necessary to protect the print-heads, it was possible to correctly register the printed image onto the pants even though they have a non-standard shape.