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Wallpaper City Guide Salzburg 2012

By: ninalevett

16-12-2011

Why I became an artist 'n not a porn star

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My work was feetured in Wallpaper City Guide 2012.

This is the text that was written about my work (quote from Wallpaper City guide Salzburg 212):
“Austrian designer Nina Levett produces textiles, paintings, illustrations, prints graphics and product design, including car seats for Alfa Romeo. She also created tableware for the company’s centenary. Levett studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and is represented in Salzburg by Artmosphere at the Rudolf Budja Gallery (overleaf). Artmosphere has loacations throughout Austria and Miami, and focusses on 20th century American, European and Japanese art. Levett’s wallpaper caught our eye, with it’s fun storyboard style.: Alfa Romeo Wonderful Car Crush (above costs 1200 USD per roll). Levett also exhibited at the MAK in Vienna and in smaller galleries around the country,…”

Making of a second colour layer of the yellow flower wallpaper

By: ninalevett

11-10-2011

Grandma's wallpapers

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I am designing a collection of wallpapers.

A the moment all of my wallpapers are hand-printed.

The first step is to create a base pattern. Then the silkscreen print is created for the first colour. I do this myself by creating the screen and then exposing the light-sensitive screen to UV-light with the design underneath. The light and table construction for exposing the screend was designed by me.

The printing process is slow. The 10m roll takes about 2 weeks to print for the first colour.

In this case after the printing of the first colour was half-finished I wanted a more personal colour style and so I decided to add more colours, so I currently work on the second colour for this design. I don’t know how many of these colour layers I will be adding to the final design.

My daughter created this wonderful video for me (she is cracking up beside me while I’m writing this). The size of the basic pattern is about 53x40cm and several layers have to be drawn. Therefore the making of the silkscreens is the most difficult part of the process. The printing process is more fun but slow because I do one print at the time and then wash the screen. In the future I will be posting a video which will show you the printing process.

Photos and video by my daughter Clara Gaiba.