An energizable design image portion of a provided design pattern (101) is printed (103) on a provided substrate (101) using a functional ink comprised of at least one energy emissive material. A passive design image portion of that design pattern is then also printed (104) on that substrate using at least one graphic arts ink. In a preferred embodiment this process (100) further provides for printing (105) electrically conductive electrodes on the substrate to permit selective energization of the energy emissive material to thereby induce illumination of the energizable design image portion of the design pattern.