Logo

Myself and Jinnipa have come up with a logo for our company, we hope you like it! We tried to keep it clean and simple to fit in with our branding, as well as having the same colour schemes.

Laura x

PESTLE Analysis

This is the PESTLE analysis that I have done, I hope it's the right. I still need to type it up properly so we can add it to the presentation.

Laura x

Finance

I have done some further work on the finance that we worked out earlier. Earlier we decided that one roll would cost us £27.28 with the costs of glow in the dark pigment added to the £4.50 production costs from the company.

I have worked it out more accurately with a little help from my boyfriend so that we can get a cheaper cost. To do this I have worked out how much ink we will use to cover 10% of the 5.2 square meter and then multiplied it by the bulk cost. Rather than just dividing the bulk price by 10 which was too much.

I hope this makes sense to everyone, I'm not that great at explaining it, but this is a more accurate price and makes it even cheaper for us. The total cost ending up at £21.41.

Laura x

Sampling and Prototyping.

These are just a few hexagonal designs that I did quickly on Illustrator. They may be a bit too bold though.

Printing the sample that I showed today and the stencils that I used.

The 30ml pot of glow in the dark paint came today that I ordered. It cost £6.63 and £10.00 with postage. As you can see here, it is clear when in the light which is good, and glows really well in complete darkness. Unfortunately I wasn't able to photograph this as it was too dark for the camera lense to pick up anything.

Laura x

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/104575028/blue-glow-in-the-dark-pigment-powder?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_promoted_en_gb&utm_campaign=supplies_low
This link has some good information on the properties of the glow in the dark pigment.



Our pigment powder, sometimes also known as Photo Luminescent/Fluorescent Pigment illuminates after being exposed sunlight or indoor light will charge the pigment to glow for hours). to black light (365 nm wavelength black or ultraviolet light excites the pigment to produce glowing light source for club and party events and It can be excited many thousands of times without degradation.

This pigment can be added to many mediums, such as, paint, ink, plastic, glass, ceramic, etc. The pigment is environment friendly, requiring no Electricity, Wiring, Battery Power or Maintenance. It is non-toxic and not flammable; it has no radioactive components or heavy soluble metals. The pigment can repeatedly absorb energy and emit visible light for over 20 years without any visible change to its properties.

Learn more about mixing instructions or how to use the pigment powder with different applications on our website technoglowproducts.com.

Product Attributes:
Brilliance-Bright - Blue
After Glow-Pigment glows while excited by UV; If charged with other light it glows afterward
Average Size-Available 18 - 60 um
Excitation-Sunlight, indoor lighting, or UV (365 nm light)
Shelf Life-10 Years and more
Composition-Strontium Aluminate doped with Europium and Dysprosium
Temperature Resistance- -20°C- 1300°C (-4°F - 2400°F)
Compatibility-Waterproof (Encapsulated)
Commercial Name-Fluorescent/Photoluminescent Pigment.

1 Minute of charge will be enough to see a nice glow for a few minutes. 

Feel free to contact us with any questions. info [!at] technoglowproducts.com


Laura x

Glow times

file:///C:/Users/Laura/Downloads/Photoluminescents%20measurements.pdf

If you look at this, it has some really useful information about how long the glow is likely to last; as it looks like it varies quite dramatically from colour to colour. This will probably be good to refer to as we are likely to get asked how long the glow is going to last.

Laura 

Glow in the dark pigment research

Sonsoles Print Studio

Sonsole are a screen printing company, who speacialise in soley screen printing.
They are a london based studio that offer open work spaces for individuals to book in and use their facilities.
I think they also offer a printing service as well. However the largest you can print up to is size A0. Obviously laura and jennipa know more about screen printing than i do, so understand the ways in which a print can be created on large scale repeat. Obviously doing it this way would be very time consuming and expensive making our product much more costly and potentially priced out of out market.

They do however screen print with glow in the dark pigments, showing it is possible and used in the printing industry.
Perhaps one option we could explore would be to get the paper printed elswehere and we then screen print the glow pigments ourdelves?

You can get a quote for how much your design would cost for them to print, the criteria is :

 

Perhaps we could contact the to see how much it would cost just to produce a sample of our design, if we struggle sourcing the materials to do it ourselves.

Website : http://sonsolesprintstudio.co.uk/printservice/



Next i have found a company Called Nazdar who sell all varieties of printing inks, including screen printing inks. They sell phosphorescent powder (glow in the dark) they don't have any prices or much information about them really, we have to contact them to find out more..

However they do have the specification sheet

I dont really understand any if this if im honest, does someone want to email them to find out more information?
If so, there distribution office (nazdar limited) is just down the road from me in stockport! Im home thursday day so could maybe try and find it and pick some up if we can get hold of them?

website: http://www.nazdar.com



I have also found a company called Sinkro, who also specialise in inks for printing.
They sell phosphorescent ink for flexo and gravure printing (nazdar glow pigments are also applicable in this way)

website: http://sinkroink.com


I researched what this is as i didn't know and they are types of industrial machine printing methods. Many are used to produce packaging and magazines etc, but also wallpaper.
There are loads of companies out there that offer flexo printing but most talk about it just for packaging.


I have found a company called 'Surface Print' who produce wallpapers solely for the customer. They do not produce their own designs, only those that are sent to them... Cath Kidston is one of their clients.

This is a direct quote from their website "As we do not produce any of our own ranges our focus and attention is always on that of our customers. You can be assured a dedicated and personal service from initial conception to delivery and beyond. Our customers are always our main priority.

We print wallcoverings for many respected UK and international designers whose work features in the homes of Royal families and celebrities, in hotels and on TV and film sets all over the world."

One of their printing methods is flexo printing so i assume they probably wouldn't have an issue working with the inks i have found. They produce samples and when approved most often or not print in bulk. 

They're based in lancashire so would reduce the production costs massively! I think this is definitely a viable option and would be great if we could get in contact with them

Website: http://www.surfaceprint.com/#1

I found a website with loads of information on how wallpaper is produced including a great section on quality control.. There is a lot of information here we can rip 

Website: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Wallpaper.html#b

Jordan