Pushing the boundaries of design, from MacBook to letterpress
Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of instruments, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, he pushes the boundaries of design. Never afraid of getting his hands dirty in his creative workshop, Kühne embraces the labor involved in the entire process of creating a poster from initial idea to finished product. Fusing modern means with the century-old tradition of the letterpress, he forms a new vocabulary on how to communicate through type and form in a truly un-nostalgic way. Never retro, his work is a clever response to the search for new ways of graphic expression: true print.
Dafi Kühne ( *1982 ) is a graphic designer. He studied Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts and owns a design and letterpress printing studio named babyinktwice. He was included in Print magazine’s 20 under 30 list in 2012. True Print is his first monograph.
Featured images are reproduced from 'Dafi Kühne - True Print'
This Saturday, March 2 from 4–6PM, master graphic designer and True Print author Dafi Kühne will appear in conversation with publisher Lars Müller and ArtCenter design professor and Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Glori Kondrup at Arcana: Books on the Arts in Culver City.
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FORMAT: Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 182 images. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 ISBN: 9783037785096 PUBLISHER: Lars Müller Publishers AVAILABLE: 1/25/2017 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Lars Müller Publishers. By Dafi Kühne.
Pushing the boundaries of design, from MacBook to letterpress
Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of instruments, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, he pushes the boundaries of design. Never afraid of getting his hands dirty in his creative workshop, Kühne embraces the labor involved in the entire process of creating a poster from initial idea to finished product. Fusing modern means with the century-old tradition of the letterpress, he forms a new vocabulary on how to communicate through type and form in a truly un-nostalgic way. Never retro, his work is a clever response to the search for new ways of graphic expression: true print.
Dafi Kühne ( *1982 ) is a graphic designer. He studied Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts and owns a design and letterpress printing studio named babyinktwice. He was included in Print magazine’s 20 under 30 list in 2012. True Print is his first monograph.
