I met Swiss poster printer and typographer Dafi Kühne just one time, over a 12 months in the past, when he introduced an providing to Poster Home NYC. It was a picture so grand (and superior) in its ambition that I nonetheless discover it arduous to explain in phrases. So this video must do the job for me.
Now that you just’ve seen the video, learn Kühne’s pitch for his annual kind and printing workshop. He writes: “Cease believing within the phantasm of dangerous typography! For 2024, Typographic Printing Program breaks the typographic hallucination, daydreaming and misinformation and brings you the complete analog phantasma and disillusion.” I occur to devour “analog phantasmas,” so that is this system I’d attend if I might.
The objective of the two-week summer time intensive in Switzerland is to bridge the hole between analog design and manufacturing instruments {and professional} modern typographic posters. Contributors will undergo various analog duties to expertise the qualities of straightforward type-only layouts. All of the experiments and workouts might be realized with conventional letterpress printing presses and bodily kind. “By this very gradual however correct analog course of, the contributors will study to place emphasis on idea and micro typography,” he guarantees.
After a rigorous design course of, the contributors will every produce a typographic letterpress poster printed with a wide range of manufacturing instruments, equivalent to wooden and steel kind, chipboard, lasercut mdf, linoleum, hand-cast Ludlow kind slugs, and plenty of extra. Kühne’s objective is that the analog work will simply translate to the modern design apply for the advantage of the contributors’ future careers.
He presently presents two slots: June 23–July 6, and July 28–Aug. 10. Study extra right here and right here.
And listed below are some earlier posters:
