Misregistered Screen Print Poster
An avant-garde screen-print poster — flat inks, a distorted figure, and the printing fault that makes it a print rather than a picture of one. Six fields.
We made two examples: a head cut at the brow and slid sideways, and a body cut at the waist and offset. Bone paper against grey, a lit window where an eye should be against a gull where a head should be, and in both the ink sits a few millimetres out of register.
You get flat inks on visible paper, a figure cut and offset, one intruding element, and a slipped plate that leaves the same sliver on the same side wherever it meets another colour, like a real misprint rather than a filter. No real institution, venue or brand appears. Tip: slip the ink that borders the subject along its whole outline; if you pick one that only appears in a small detail, the effect barely shows.
Generated for this library
Input
Announces Vibary - an exhibition of interfaces that were
described, not drawn
Subject a head in flat black silhouette, cut along one
horizontal line at the brow, the top half slid
sideways off the skull
Intrusion a small lit window floating where the eye should be
Slip the vermilion plate slips 4 mm down and to the right,
identically everywhere
Corners DESCRIBED NOT DRAWN · VIBARY 2026
Palette bone paper, black, one vermilion, one cobalt
Returned 1 poster · 3:4 · three inks, visible paper grain
subject the head flat black, the cut clean, the offset top half
leaving a bone-coloured gap across the brow
slip every vermilion edge carrying the same sliver on its
lower right - against the head, the cobalt, the frame
intrusion the small window bright inside the black, the only warm
thing on the page
ink coarse halftone in the mid-tones, ink friction at the
edges of the flat fields, paper showing through
type two lines in the top corners, tiny, wide-tracked, coldYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1What it announces
- 2The subject, distorted
- 3The one intrusion
- 4The misregistration
- 5The two corner lines
- 6The palette
Misregistered Screen Print Poster
What this makes
An avant-garde screen-print poster — flat inks, a distorted figure, and the printing fault that makes it a print rather than a picture of one. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. State the misregistration as a measurement and a direction, not as a mood — 'the red slips 4 mm down-right' rather than 'misaligned printing feel'.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check the slip before shipping: find three places the slipped colour meets another and confirm the sliver appears on the same side, by the same amount, in all three. If it varies, the run drew an effect instead of a plate.
What you swap
- What it announces
- Vibary — an exhibition of interfaces that were described, not drawn
- The subject, distorted
- a head in flat black silhouette, cut along one horizontal line at the brow and the top half slid sideways off the skull
- The one intrusion
- a small lit window floating where the eye should be
- The misregistration
- the vermilion plate slips 4 mm down and to the right, identically everywhere
- The two corner lines
- DESCRIBED NOT DRAWN · VIBARY 2026
- The palette
- bone paper, black, one vermilion, one cobalt
Before it runs
- A subject that survives being flattened to a silhouette. The style has no modelling and no light; a shape that needs shading to be read will not survive it.
- Two or three inks and no more. This is a press, not a screen — each colour is a separate pass and a fourth turns the poster muddy.
- One idea, held. The picture is a single image with one thing wrong in it, not a collection of strange things.
When to reach for it
When the thing being announced is difficult on purpose: an experimental show, a fringe production, a record, a manifesto. Templates in this style ask for misregistration by name and then return perfectly aligned plates, because they never say what misregistration actually is.
What changes
- One art-poster: two or three flat inks on paper stock, a heavily abstracted subject, and a great deal of empty colour.
- The misregistration is specified as a plate rather than as a texture — one colour, one direction, one distance, everywhere — which is what a real press does and what these templates never get.
- Halftone grain and ink friction that read as printing rather than as a filter dropped over the artwork.
- One intruding element that does not belong, which is where the unease comes from.
- Corner type kept tiny and cold, so the picture stays the loud thing on the page.
Pairs with
- Copperplate City PosterA copperplate-engraved city poster in one ink — where every tone is line density, nothing on the page is a flat fill, and the bare paper is a shape rather than a margin. Six fields.
- 3D Character Screen BreakoutA soft-3D character coming out of a screen — with the crossing proved: named parts behind the plane, named parts through it, and the surface visibly giving way. Five fields.
- Bakery Food PosterA bakery-counter food poster — one dish shot large under a Didot title — with the overlap specified as a construction so the picture layers instead of stacking. Six fields.