Cherry Tenneson made signs, for the NHS, job centre plus, exhibitions and various others, using vinyl letting.
She developed her skills from working in a factory and stemmed from that into developing that skill into art work. You can see a link between her work she's done for signs and that of her own art work, there's alot of structure between the two, organisation, she follows rules and order, colour and tone (Tenneson says she uses vinyl primary colours in her work), other influences are of Pop Art, Minimalism and Politics, which concur true.
Tenneson works with a partner and together their design name is Tenneson & Dale, above is of one of their pieces 'Order Order' 2006, is of 26 canvas's worked with vinyl, they form a grid which has been influenced by the nature of Politics. The colours in the canvas's represent how many members were in each group, demonstrating the election groups. This was exhibitioned in Cornerhouse, but they didn't use all the canvas's defeating the meaning behind the work.
Below is another of Tenneson & Dale's work is 'Librarians of the House of Commons' 2006, it demonstrates each Librarian of the House of Commons and how long they were in parliment.
Working with Vinyl and Vinyl Lettering
We were shown a demonstration on working with vinyl and I luckily got to produce my own, above is of a letter T applied with the same techniques Tenneson used, below is the outcome when font's are over layed, it was quite successful but not all together smooth, you can see where they overlap quite clearly but finer vinyl can be used to it is less noticable.
The smallest font for vinyl letting is 12mm at it's best for exhibition purposes or signs, Aluminum 1.5cm and PVC 1cm. When applying vinyl to make it equal with no bubble, a roller is best to use as it gets a more accurate finish. Roll with font facing upwards so it doesn't slide.
Paints and drawing on vinyl is achievable if oil based.
Vinyls are best left in a cool place so they don't stretch and lose their quality.
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