Graphics - Materials and Components

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Cartridge Paper
Textured surface - ideal for sketching with pencils, crayons, pastels, gouache, inks and watercolours.
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Layout Paper
Thin, translucent - for general design work
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Bleed-Proof Paper
Used when drawing with felt tips and marker pens
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Tracing Paper
Translucent - used to copy images
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Solid White Board
High quality bleached surface, ideal for printing. Used for primary packaging (packaging for one item)
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Mount Board
Used to mount drawings and photos
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Corrugated Board
Used in secondary packaging (packaging lots of the same item). Made up of fluted inner core sandwiched between two layers
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Duplex Board
Different colour and texture on each side, used when only one side is seen. Unbleached so great for food packaging
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Grey Board
Rigid, easy to cover with paper so graphics can be printed. Found in game boards, hardback books, ring binders and covered boxes
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Properties of Board and Paper
Recyclable, made from wood pulp, sustainable material, biodegradable
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Laminating Paper with Aluminium
Used to package food, keeps flavours in and air out, print graphics onto paper
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Laminating Paper with Polythene
Makes it waterproof so is used for things like paper cups
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Laminating Paper with Polystyrene
Makes foam core board, stiff, lightweight, used for mounting posters and making models
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Spiral Wound Tube
Made from paper and held by glue. Light but strong. Often given a smooth finish (covered in thin paper sheet which is easy to print on) Used for fireworks, toilet rolls and snack containers.
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Acetate
Flexible, easy to print on, sustainable as made mostly from wood, hard, shiny, transparent or translucent. Used in thin sheets for overhead projector and packaging products that need to be seen.
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Polypropylene (PP)
Quite strong, tough, flexible. Used for packaging, chairs, textiles and car parts
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High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS)
Rigid, variety of colours and thicknesses, fairly cheap. Used for making boxes for products and for vacuum forming
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Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
Cheap, durable, easy to print on, quite brittle. Used for blister packs, vinyl records and insultaion
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Corrugated Plastic Sheet
Lightweight, rigid, weatherproof. Can be bent into shapes. Used for estate agents signs, students folders and outside cases of electronic items.
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Expanded Polystyrene Foam
Lightweight and can be shaped with a knife, can be crumbly or have a dense structure
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Machining Foam
Compact, work on it with machine tools, can make detailed pieces that can be painted.
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Modern Materials
Renewable materials, biodegradable, sustainable. Made from plants (potatopak, paper foam, cornstarch polymers)
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Cornstarch Polymer
Made from maize, clear, flexible, used for sandwich packaging
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Potatopak
Made from dried potato starch that's baked inside moulds, fairly rigid, lightweight, good for making plates and trays
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Paper Foam
Composite of potato starch and paper fibres, lightweight and printable, used for mobile phone packaging
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SMART Materials
Change their properties in response to heat, light, pressure or something else (depending on material) Often change back to original state when the reactant is taken away.
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Precious Metal Clay
Easy to work wit. Once heated, the binder burns away and the metal fuses to create a solid metal object. You can solder and polish it also,
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Plaster Filler
Powder that you mix with water into thick paste. Improves surface of foam models by filling in small cracks
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Paints
Water based and acrylic paints take less time to dry. Pigment (colour) and vehicle (solvent carries the pigment)
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Spirit Varnish
Solvent evaporates to leave a thin protective layer of transparent garnish
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Laminating
Using heat to sandwich paper between two layers of plastic
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Pencils
Different hardness and blackness, range of colours. HB for sketching. 2H for technical drawings
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Inks
Pigments suspended in water. Good for colour infilling, background washes and writing
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Chalk Pastels
For backgrounds or to add tone and shading. Use finger to blend.
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Gouache
Opaque paint, for flat areas of colour or for adding highlights
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Dry Transfer Lettering
Applied with pressure from a waxed translucent sheet onto drawings
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Airbrush
Blows mist of ink from a reservoir using compressed air.
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Fine liners
Variety of thicknesses and colours, for drawing fine lines and outlining
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Markers
Hundreds of different tones, great for thick lines, different tips
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Glue Sticks
Non toxic, cheap, clear when dry, environmentally friendly, bond paper and card
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Rubber-Based Cement
Apply to both surfaces of paper or card, repositioning is possible
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Glue Pens
Liquid, messy, bonds paper and card, clear when dry
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Aerosols
SprayMount, mounting photos onto paper or card, makes repositioning possible
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Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA)
Water based, bond wood, good for paper and card but takes a while to dry
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Balsa Cement
Sticking balsa wood, clear when dry
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Glue Guns
Quickly bond materials like wood, fabric and card, use low melt plastic that will burn you
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Acrylic Cement
Used for plastics, gives off harmful fumes
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Masking tape
Low tack, easy to remove, used to mask areas when using pastels or markers
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Double Sided Tape
Used to stick card models, hard to remove
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Adhesive Plastic Film
Cover and protect large or awakardly shaped card and paper models
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Scissors
Cut paper and thin card, not good for detail
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Surgical Scalpels
Very sharp for precision cutting paper or card
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Guillotines and Rotary Cutters
Cut large sheets of paper and card or many sheets at a time, cut in a straight line
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Die Cutters
Used to cut out materials for packaging.
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Hot-wire Cutter
Cut stytrofoam
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Double Sided Sticky Pads
Stick things together quickly
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Ratchet Rivets
Join sheets of corrugated plastic together
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Snap Rivets
Plastic clips used to join sheet material like plastic
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Comb Binding
Punch holes in the sheets using a special machine, then put plastic comb in. Bound book opens flat and can add/remove pages without damge
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Spiral Binding
Plastic coil is inserted down the spine
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Wiro Binding
Same as spiral binding but uses a double loop wire
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Saddle Stitching
Double sized pages are folded and stapled together at the centre. Easy and cheap but doesn't hold many sheets
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Perfect Binding
Pages are folded together in sections, roughened at fold then glued to spine, bind lots of sheets, book doesn't open flat
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Thread Sewing
Expensive, pages are sewn together, then soft cover glued on, pages less likely to come loose
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Case-Bound/Hard-Bound
Thread sewn but with hardcover
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

Thin, translucent - for general design work

Back

Layout Paper

Card 3

Front

Used when drawing with felt tips and marker pens

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Translucent - used to copy images

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

High quality bleached surface, ideal for printing. Used for primary packaging (packaging for one item)

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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