IdleBeats screen printing & design studio is hosting an Open Studio Day + Print Art Exhibition on the 15th(Sat) this month at our new studio. We will have an open door from 10AM to 10PM to welcome all the friends, at the same time exhibit 30+ nicely-framed gigposters, art prints and woodcuts originally designed by local & international artists and all hand-printed by IdleBeats. Free entrance, free drinks and all the prints are on sale with really affordable price!

If you have time, it would be a privilege for us to meet you at the studio, and please feel free to invite friends over.



IdleBeats Open Studio Day + SilkScreen Art Exhibition
Time: January 15th, 2011 Saturday 10AM-10PM
Address: Room 302, Building 2, No.962 Changle Rd (near Wulumuqi Rd) Shanghai
Free Entrance + Free Drinks + Prints Sale!

Good news! We have recently moved our studio into a chill old house on one of the most fun streets in Shanghai - Changle rd. Now we are going to start regular private workshops / tutorials, don't hesitate to book one here or at [email protected] if you are interested in getting your own artwork screen printed or learning basic screen exposure and printing technique!

New printing room.

Dark(screen exposure) room. The bright thing is our new custom-made stainless sink for washing screens, magical exposure machine is on the other side -it's too big to get through the dark room's door so we had to saw it into half then re-install it in the room.. huh!



First workshop day with fashion and textile designer Isabel -she's trying out print her 2-layer pattern design on a piece of black fabric.

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IdleBeats Screen Printing Workshop:

Individualized screen printing workshops with one on one attention, bilingual tutorial and assistance from professional screen printers/artists. Participants can bring their own material such as T-shirts, art paper, greeting cards and print their own artworks/designs.

Dates & Schedule:
Every Saturday Class A: 2-5pm, Class B: 8-11pm
(Please send mail to [email protected] two weeks in advance to book your class)


Address:
Room 302, Building 2, No.962 Changle Rd. (Near Wulumuqi Rd.), Jing'an District, Shanghai

Fee:
1 class: 600 rmb
2 classes: 1100 rmb
4 classes: 1900 rmb

Workshop fee includes two screens, one on one printing tutorial & assistance for 3-4 hours, paint, construction paper, as well as other printing materials. you are also welcome to bring things that you wanna print on such as art paper, t-shirts etc.

Additional Information:
1-2 screens can be single color artworks x 2 pieces or 2-color artwork x 1 piece, concerning the time that screen preparation takes the digital artworks should arrive at least 5 days before workshop day. Format requirement: Vector(AI. EPS.) or High resolution(200+dpi) PSD with separated layers.
If you sign up for multipleclasses you can also learn about other aspects of the screen printing process, for example, screen exposure, design preparation, and printing on multiple different sorts of media. Special request will be taken on a case by case basis.

Please send all inquiries to [email protected]

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Many thanks to Frankie and Juli from CreativeHunt for making the lovely article about IdleBeats workshop and taking these amazing photos above!

Click here to read the post on CreativeHunt.

Volcom x Emerging Chinese Artists screen printing workshop was a great event we did jointly with NeochaEDGE and SOURCE, this Beijing + Shanghai two-city workshop was the first live screen-printing event in China, we were more than happy and honored to bring the hand-print fun to creative crowds from both north and south sides of the country. The trip itself was quite like a band tour -although I've never toured with a band.. anyway, it was fun!

Didn't remember to update the videos and photos until today due to the hectic studio move, check em out no matter you were there or not. :)


@ Shanghai


@ Beijing

IdleBeats recently took part in the fifth Europe gigposter flatstock which is associated with Reeperbahn Music Festival. It’s a great party of both sound and visual, check out below pictures from the live scene!





We were also asked to design and hand pull a run of gigposters for one of the bands that attended Reeperbahn festival, just like all the other studios at the flatstock. So here comes the lovely piece by Nini Sum for the band Deer Tick from the US! For more info please click here.





Middle one in the upper photo is the poster of ‘Europe GigPoster Flatstock V’ designed by Gregor.







Next stop is Treibhaus exhibition at Dresden, more prints and posters!

We ve recently discovered these posters in streets around Shanghai, the neighbors said that several aliens pasted them on one night while people and dogs are all sleeping! The aliens moved fast and refused to chat with the folks, very strange!


this dude was too afraid to look at it, he thought it s a tunnel to the outer space


Here..


There...


Everywhere!


The neighbors are still chitchatting about it.