Open studio
In addition to meeting you in person, one of the nice thing for us with #jollygoodlördag is to have a deadline to clean up the studio and re-arrange the wall : )
jolly good video
We have made a short film to tell some about how we do it – the jollygoodfellow process, some of our inspiration, preparations and the actual printing. Hope you like it!
Jolly Good Lördag – May
Sunshine, books, vases, airplants, natural dyed textiles and a lot of prints! It was a very nice #jollygoodlördag and here are some pictures for you that live too far away to come by in person ; )
We served the kids with a lots […]
Arctic Paper was here
As we love paper and specially Munken, that we use for most of our screenprints, it’s a big honor for us that Arctic Paper wanted to interview us and feature us in their series Paper Passion.
Interview with Esa and Lisa Tanttu
Love, screen printing and a whole lot of bikes
The creative agency Jollygoodfellow is run by spouses Esa and Lisa Tanttu. Together, they create everything, from brainstorming and sketching, to actually pressing motives of screen prints in their own workshop. In just […]
What is a screenprint?
Most of our products are screenprinted by hand, but maybe you wonder how it works…..
A screen print (or silk-screen) is a print where the ink is forced through a mesh (screen) using a rubber squeegee. Jollygoodfellow usually start with one or more photographs which is adjusted and rasterized in the computer. Sometimes with some added hand-drawing. The image is transferred to a transparent film and exposed on a screen which is prepared with photo emulsion. And when the screen is rinsed and dry it’s time […]
From stack to rack
This week we have planned and built a rack to dry our prints, mostly with things found in our basement. Afterwards we were eager to try it and printed the first part of the bicycle poster. Usually its hard to find room for a bunch of 70×100 cm sheets, but this worked really good!
We also found out that the roof was leaking just over the rack filled with new prints , but that’s another story.
Now there is hanging a bucket were the drops are […]
the basement work space (3)
Light in the dark room
We bought an old solarium at one of the summer flea markets, and now it works as an exposure lamp in the process of preparing the silkscreen frames. We have used it to expose our new prints Tidsoptimisten and urban No. 1-9 CPH and we are very pleased with the result! Now that we have all the parts of the silkscreen […]
the basement work space (2)
Water in the basement!
When the winter arrived it wasn’t possible to take water from the hose outside any longer. For a while we ran with the silksscreen frames full of paint two floors up to wash them in the shower cabin. As an early christmas present Esa’s brother helped us to find the right pipes and tubes and then put them together. Now we are very glad that we finally have running water in the […]