Registration is the whole craft
Color is easy to pick and hard to line up. If the layers do not sit right, nothing else about the poster matters.
Rafa Duarte
Screen printer and poster artist
I pull every print by hand. Posters for shows, editions for other artists, and lettering big enough to read from across the street.
Oakland, CAOpen to poster commissions and artist editions
- Show posters
- Hand-pulled editions
- Wall lettering
- Screen print
- Color separation
- Type
Selected work
Shop
Foghouse Press
A two-person screen-print shop in Oakland: show posters, artist editions, and short-run merch, all hand pulled.
Open since 2019
Work
Poster series
Show posters
Hand-separated posters for Bay Area venues and touring bills, printed in signed editions.
Work
Lettering
Hand-painted wall work
Brush-painted signage and lettering for storefronts around the East Bay.
Proof
Shop open since 2019
Foghouse Press, Oakland
4 years on press
Press assistant before founding the shop
Monthly beginner night
Screen-print class taught at the shop
Story
I started pulling squeegees at a community print shop in East Oakland while I was still bussing tables at night. Four years as a press assistant taught me registration and patience, and I opened Foghouse Press with one partner in 2019. Half the work is show posters on a deadline and half is edition printing for artists who want their color right. I teach a beginner screen-print night once a month, because a night like that is how I got in.
Perspective
Print it to be read from the sidewalk
A poster competes with a street. Scale and contrast first, detail second.
Ways to work together
Poster commissions
Hand-separated, hand-pulled show posters and art prints in signed editions.
Edition printing for artists
Color proofing and short-run edition printing from an artist's own artwork.
Wall and window lettering
Brush-painted signage for storefronts around the East Bay.
Questions
What does Rafa do?
He is a screen printer and poster artist in Oakland who runs Foghouse Press, a two-person shop printing show posters, artist editions, and hand-painted lettering.
What can he print?
Hand-pulled screen-print editions, show posters, short-run merch, and brush-painted wall and window work.
Is he taking work?
Yes. Poster commissions and artist editions.
Timeline
Co-founder & Printer, Foghouse Press
Show posters, artist editions, and lettering.
Press Assistant, Alameda Print Collective
Registration, color separation, and production.
Certificate, Graphic Communication, Laney College
Mural·shown with a fictional demo record
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