An invite I designed and hand screen printed for the sixth birthday of One69A, run as a Manchester Bee design competition and screen-printing party at Islington Mill. The invite is a die-cut hexagon that opens out into a honeycomb concertina, printed in yellow, grey and gold, with a different screen-printed bee on each panel and the brief tucked inside.
It is one of the more involved printed objects I have made, the folding and die-cutting as much of the job as the printing itself. A bee for Manchester, a honeycomb for the fold, an invite that is already a small exhibition of the thing it is asking people to make. The party ran at the Mill with printing demos, and the best bee designs got printed up on the night.
See also The winning bees.
Part of one69A.