Studio Brief 1 - Stock Choices CAN POST

The stock choice was essential for my bank notes. The work produced by Bauhaus is normally produced on off white paper. It may not of been off white back in the 1920's but the off white style is something that is associated with the Bauhaus movement, Therefore in order to give my banknotes an historic, aesthetic style of Bauhaus then the stock I needed was an off white stock.

The average gsm of bank notes are around 80-90gsm so essentially I should off got the same paper weight to reflect a realistic banknote. However, because my chosen print process was screen printing I wanted to get a slightly thicker GSM. With thinner paper the screen print ink could essentially soak through the paper or end up weakened the structure of it. To avoid this I ended up ordering 135gsm, it wasn't much thicker but it gave me insurance that the paper would be strong enough to hold the ink.

I ordered from GFSmith to ensure quality and unique paper. This is what I ordered:

Colourplan - Natural - 135 gsm
Colourplan - Vellum White - 135 gsm
Naturalis - Vanilla Smooth - 135 gsm

As you can see it is all off white stock with a variation of texture just so I could experiment with it and see how the ink transfers onto the paper.