NCERT Class 11 Graphic Design Evolution in Reprography

EXERCISES

1. What do you understand by block printing?

2. What are the main reasons which made man feel the need of printed books?

3. What is the meaning of block books?

4. Principally there are three printing processes—(relief, intaglio and planography. Elaborate.

5. How was block printing used in ancient India? What influence did it have on the Egyptian civilisation?

6. Make a scrap book of different printing media/ techniques available around you and write briefly about them.

7. Write the difference between engraving, wood block and lithography printing. Give examples.

PRACTICALS

1. Repeat a pattern to make a design with direct printing technique (any raised material that can be printed on a surface) e.g. cut an eraser to make a relief pattern and apply colour on the surface. Get the impression on the surface or discover and use other materials and technique from which a print can be taken.

2. Get the impression from the raised surface on a paper by rubbing pencil and then try to duplicate the effect with other media.

3. Make two illustrations using the effects achieved from the earlier exercise.

4. Use Red (R), Yellow (Y), Blue (B) colours to mix and create different colours. By increasing or decreasing the quantity of the colours prepare as many combinations possible and make a chart of the achieved colours.

5. Make a design based on a given subject or product and then recreate the design fit for printing as a Black and White image as used for planography.

6. Design your own name and then create the reverse of the letter in a manner fit for printing.

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