James Bond

Creating a screen printed poster from a photo

Bond-poster

007 poster

Tate Modern
March 2025

Poster Screen Print Print

Creating the image

Screen printed poster project, starting with a classic pose from 007 in the Dr No film.

Printing

So we have our original image that we turn into a halftone, then we mask this out so we just have the half tone – ready now to create a transparency.

This is what we are looking to create, a four colour print of James Bond as an A3 Poster.

What we used

I like the 90T screens for the finer detail but you can use a 77T for this too, these are 16″ x 20″ frames which print nicely on to A3 paper.

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Here’s some of the first test prints.

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Bond, bang bang!

Bond Circles Colour

Using different colours for opacity overlays.