Orlando-based designer Jason Dean just sent word about his latest poster that changes from day to night! The 9-color, glow-in-the-dark screen print shows a sunny little town during the day which turns into a seedy city at night. Check out the side by side close-ups to see scenes full of crime, sex, zombies and more. (Love how The City turns into City Jail.)
"The most fun part about creating this was definitely coming up with ideas for the 'night' parts and how to integrate them without being noticed during the day," Dean told us about this poster. "Also, I learned quite a bit about the screen printing process through this print. Printing was a pretty huge undertaking, given that it's 9 colors total (including 2 different strengths of phosphorescent inks) so I worked pretty closely with my printer and learned a lot about the little details that can make a good print great."
It was a coincidence I came across this documentary, pretty much the first creature that came up had bioluminescent properties, and then to my surprise most of the fish, organisms etc glowed in the dark too.
I had heard of lots of the creatures before through research but it was good to see video footage to match up to the fish. This gave me a better understanding of why aspects of them glow.
This can be for a number of reasons, either to attract prey, distract pray, for visibility and even to camouflage themselves. They have developed these amazing properties over thousands of years which perfectly suit the pitch black conditions of the deep. I think this could be an interesting area to concentrate on.
I would like to concentrate on glowing life on land and in the deep hopefully. The contrast of the two areas might make for something rather interesting. I am really looking forward to getting stuck into this project.
With the love of screen printing and illustrating, this book was created combining those two passions in a personal project. Its purpose was to express the creativity of how mankind has chosen to represent natural forces with the use of deities. In the process these deities were combined into the daily life of the cultures that are represent. He has created and designed a custom made screen printed book that tells the story of for deities each representing their own element like Sun, Wind, Water & Earth and to show how mankind represent these natural forces from their own experiences. I used Glow in the Dark inks, gold metallic inks and a custom mixed blue gray ink I made all printed on Cream Percia printmaking paper.
Really stands out, has a really vibrant glow.
Bob Eight Screen Print
A two colour series of A1 glow in the dark posters, produced as Christmas promo’s for award winning screen printers Bob Eight Pop
I thought it would be interesting to see how far people have taken glow in the dark, so I have looked into glow in the dark rooms, experiences etc. It would be cool to do something on a large scale like this.
UV MOON GOLF
Todays next step in golf is apparently moon glow golf giving you the chance to play crazy golf in a black light lit room where everything glows! Looks pretty sweet need to give it a go.
UV THREAD INSTALLATION
3D UV Thread is the latest installation by Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi. With rooms beautifully illuminated with UV lamps, the creation of the Berlin-based artist is to discover at the Galerie Laurent Mueller until 26 January 2013.
I have collected a series of glow in the dark posters which I think work really well, They are all more for decoration than for information purposes like signage etc.
Really nice example of a glow in the dark print
keeping with the marine life
I like the layout of this image.
Very nice example, the designer has managed to apply
tones to the image with gives it an extra dimension
I like the Illustration style
Northern Lights very clever Idea
Beautiful example of glow in the dark type
Very clever idea and concept.
Almost blurred 3D image
I like the imagery, the green is much brighter here.
I think there is too much green on here.
Clever Idea, i like the use of lots of black
Really great illustration fun and visually pleasing.
Whilst researching into glow in the dark companies I came across this incredible concept, that could be applied to a motorway to liven up the roads. This just shows how far glow in the dark technolgy can go and also what uses it has. This is idea is both a useful and fun concept that will no doubt cause excitement for the drivers:
A smart road design that features glow in the dark tarmac and illuminated weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands from mid-2013.
"One day I was sitting in my car in the Netherlands, and I was amazed by these roads we spend millions on but no one seems to care what they look like and how they behave," the designer behind the concept, Daan Roosegaarde, told Wired.co.uk. "I started imagining this Route 66 of the future where technology jumps out of the computer screen and becomes part of us."
The Smart Highway by Studio Roosegaarde and infrastructure management group Heijmans won Best Future Concept at the Dutch Design Awards, and has already gone beyond pure concept. The studio has developed a photo-luminising powder that will replace road markings -- it charges up in sunlight, giving it up to ten hours of glow-in-the-dark time come nightfall. "It's like the glow in the dark paint you and I had when we were children," designer Roosegaarde explained, "but we teamed up with a paint manufacture and pushed the development. Now, it's almost radioactive".
Special paint will also be used to paint markers like snowflakes across the road's surface -- when temperatures fall to a certain point, these images will become visible, indicating that the surface will likely be slippery. Roosegaarde says this technology has been around for years, on things like baby food -- the studio has just upscaled it.
The first few hundred metres of glow in the dark, weather-indicating road will be installed in the province of Brabant in mid-2013, followed by priority induction lanes for electric vehicles, interactive lights that switch on as cars pass and wind-powered lights within the next five years.
The idea is to not only use more sustainable methods of illuminating major roads, thus making them safer and more efficient, but to rethink the design of highways at the same time as we continue to rethink vehicle design. As Studio Roosegaarde sees it, connected cars and internal navigation systems linked up to the traffic news represent just one half of our future road management systems -- roads need to fill their end of the bargain and become intelligent, useful drivers of information too.
