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komenkentucky.org LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 4.17 133 were really able to have a messy art space and then our living space too." Jasin, whose studio is called Madpixel, designs digitally, then prints each of the design's layers as a film positive on a thin piece of plastic. To make the screen, he coats the plastic with emulsion fluid in a darkroom, then exposes the coated screens for four minutes in a homemade UV light box — a tanning booth of sorts. "If I'm burning a lot of screens, I'll notice my hands are getting tan," Jasin says. e dark spots on the film block the UV light, which allows the emul- sion fluid to wash away, leaving a blank space for the ink to pass through. Each poster requires five separate screens: for blue, yellow, green, red and brown. "I've found that five colors is my sweet spot," Jasin says. He prints each color individ- ually, from lightest to darkest. "Limited colors is a fun design challenge to try to work within — how you differentiate things with those different palettes," he says. In the corner is a large metal table pockmarked with holes, above which heavy-duty clips hang from the ceiling on thin ropes. is is "the vacuum ta- ble." Jasin built it himself. "I put a little trigger on there, so the vacuum turns on and holds the paper tight to the table," he says. Once he squeegees the ink onto the paper through the screen, the in-progress print goes to the ceiling-tall drying rack, each row opening like a mouth to receive a print. Once he's filled the two racks, the early set is dry and ready for the next layer of color. Jasin did 100 hand-printed "special edition" posters ($75 each). In addition to that, KDF had 1,200 posters printed up ($30), plus 300 signed and numbered posters ($50). "e one thing that's been challenging with this poster is, in the past, neighbor- hoods were always building-focused. I never did a lot with people," Jasin says. "And people are such an important part of the Derby Festival. at forced me to look at how people would work in the print. It made me realize that not including people was kind of an over- sight, because obviously people make a neighborhood cool. It was nice to have my process pushed in a direction that I hadn't pushed it in the past."