My name is Dafi Kühne, I am a graphic designer / letterpress printmaker from Zürich + Glarus, Switzerland. Please feel free to contact me or come on over and join me printing...
Serie of 3 posters for an art project. Calls to protest. The different statements where printed from adhesive foil mounted on a rough OSB-Woodblock, which makes the whole 1c posters very wild.
3c letterpress posters for the monthly prgram for veka-glarus.ch. The first printing-colour was white, to give
those browserwindows a nice light background on that lightgreen paper. Then gray and black.
2c letterpress posters for the Pussywarmers. I used extracts from Pussywarmers lyrics to layout them like cheap newspaper ads using just one font in two weights. By giving the lyrics a new context, they lead to interesting new associations.
1c letterpress posters for the naming ceremony for my new ‹FAG Control 900›. The black maiden voyage of my press is symbolised by a
gradation from top to the bottom of a black woodblock.
8c letterpress magazines for the monthly program for veka-glarus.ch . I used the maximum size of my polymer processor for these plates (25cm x 35cm). For those 400 magazines, I pulled more than 3200 impressions.
3c Letterpress Tickets for a ‹Monsters› concert at veka-glarus.ch . Printed from lead-type, old magnesium plates and photopolymer plates. Autonumbered while printing and letterpress-perforated after printig...
2c letterpress posters on pink/green paper for a ‹Captain Moustache & Fredo Ignazio› concert at Kunsthaus Glarus. Printed from linoleum and photopolymer plates.
2c letterpress posters for a monsters concert at veka-glarus.ch . Two reversed 2c splitfountain prints. Printed from lasercut linoleum and some old magnesium plates I got from a printmaker.
For the ‹Kunstschaffen Glarus und Linthgebiet 2009› exhibition at Kunsthaus Glarus, I pulled huge proofs of cut trees in the forest. The exibition was from december 05, 2009 until january 17, 2010.
...before they book your mother! Promotion stickers for ‹Captain Moustache & Fredo Ignazio› to send out to bars, clubs & concert hosts. Printed on white, red & yellow pre-cut adhesive foil.
2c letterpress posters for the monthly program for www.veka-glarus.ch. I drew the whole poster on a plywood plate. The impression of the pen was deep enough to print some 500 copies.
Temps, a gigantic project by Remo Caminada. 365 different black letterpress prints over fluorescent screen printed circles. Every Compact Disc with an individual date and phase of the moon.
I moved my studio. I just got too much stuff. It was a whole lot of work but now it's done. Right now i have two presses, a ‹Schneider› (50cm x 70cm) and a ‹FAG Control 405› (40cm x 55cm).
Yeah, I got me an old ‹FAG Control 405›. Yes, this is really the name of the press. Haha. Its a Swiss made halfautomatic! Watch me as I am running it for the first time. Not printing, just running the press just for the use of running it...
4c letterpress posters for the monthly program for veka-glarus.ch using photopolymer plates. Since my photopolymer processor was to small to handle these printing plates, they have been exposed to sunlight and washed in a bathtub. Yep!
2c letterpress poster for a cd release. Printed glossy black on matt black from lasercut MDF woodblocks. Bon Jovi did it ‹BACK to BACK› with Richie Sambora! Dryconditions do it ‹BLACK on BLACK›... Haha
10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1- Happy New Year! New Years Countdown for veka-glarus.ch. Oh man, this guy got stuck between 8 and 7... It felt like the year 2009 would never come.
Posterwork for an aperitif of the visual communictions departement at Zurich University of the Arts. 4 different posters were hand drawn with edding pens.
3c purple letterpress posters for a new year's party at veka-glarus.ch. Printed from MDF and plywood blocks. Since it was not possible print it anyway, the overlapping of the letters was completely faked.
During summer 2008, I could do an Internship at Hatch Showprint, one of the oldest and largest still producing letterpress poster printshop in the states. They started business in 1879 and are still printing with a huge archive of woodtype and ...