Screen Printing: Art, Ad, or Alchemy

About Screen Printing: Art, Ad, or Alchemy

Screen Printing: Art, Ad, or Alchemy? covers the wide variety of uses of the world’s oldest printing technology in its modern form. The podcast introduces listeners to the people and the magic behind the squeegee. From leading-edge medical devices fighting COVID, to fine art and rock posters, the clothes you wear and the teams you cheer for, the electronic devices and new energy sources that will guide our future – it’s a screen printed world out there, and host Andy MacDougall will take you into it.

Publisher

SmartWork Media/GK Magazine

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2021

Latest episode

5 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Aug 2026

   Episode 32 Split Decision

   Meet artist and screenprinter Dominique Desbiens of Montreal and get inky. Art, Ad, or Alchemy Podcast number 32, explores a screen printing technique that imitates nature and defies logic. It’s not practical, it’s unpredicatable, takes longer, and wastes ink. So of course some screenprinters love it, and artists eat it up. The split fountain. There is a written story with pictures of Episode 32 in the latest issue of screenprintingmag.com (http://screenprintingmag.com/), (link) but if you are listening thank you for visiting Art, Ad, or Alchemy, push start and let’s get going.

2. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Episode 31: Technology, Technique, and Travel

   This episode of Art, Ad, or Alchemy takes us from state of the art in Orlando, to seat-of-your-pants printmaking on the side of a volcano in a 3 room schoolhouse. From Tito’s Cantina in Veracruz, to the biggest rock festival in Mexico. Screenprinting may be a process, but it’s also a vehicle to meet people, get creative, and have cool adventures. Join us.

3. 

   14 Feb 2026

   Episode 30: Part 2 Print or Print 2 Part

   In episode 30, Andy takes stock of the changes that have happened since he started writing for Screenprinting Magazine 32 years ago, and the demise of the once mighty printing industry worldwide. The changes at the Magazine reflect this, but with the switch to digital, it’s the opportunities we need to look at, not the demise of certain types of printing and media. One thing that hasn’t changed - the need for skilled screenprinters to continuously adapt their particular abilities and amazing process to an evolving world of manufacturing that not only relies on it to label and decorate 3 dimensional parts, but helps rebuild North American manufacturing capabilities in the 21st century. Print that part!

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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