Original post author: Ryan
After making custom bandanas for our wedding favors last year, we brought a few of them to Hulaween to gift to other friendly festival attendees. It was fun to have something to share, so I decided to do another bandana project for Electric Forest this year.
While the wedding bandana was made entirely by hand, I chose to do the art digitally this time around using an app called procreate. This allowed me to make better use of interlocking patterns and duplication. It also allowed me to make more mistakes, because erasing doesn’t leave marks on the paper when you’re working on a tablet.
I did all of the art in a single day. Then I wasted about two weeks negotiating with a screen printer who ended up not even wanting the work order (beyond frustrating). I had to scramble to get another printer lined up, but it all ended up falling into place. I was very happy with the final product that was delivered. I ended up ordering two color variants of the same print: black/green and black/gray.
The art features many of the familiar attractions at Electric Forest, along with various iconography from festival culture. I put the festival dates and location on the bandana, but I didn’t write “Electric Forest” explicitly; I know this bandana is technically impeding on their intellectual property, and I figured I wouldn’t push the limit.
Similar to the wedding bandana, we tie dyed these bandana right in our apartment. This time, we only tie dyed about 1/3 of the bandanas (so we could gift plenty of standard bandanas too). We chose to use pink, orange, and blue dyes, which seemed to play well together.
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