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About Dafi Kühne

About Dafi Kühne

Daf Kühne is a graphic designer + letterpress printer. He studied in Zürich in the Visual Communications Department of Zurich University of the Arts. During his studies he did an internship with Hatch Show Print in Nashville TN, focusing on letterpress printed posters with wood type.

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Goal of the course

In this 2 week Typographic Summer program in Switzerland you will do both conceptual and hands-on design work such as handtypesetting, kerning, linespacing and rags. Also Handling of letterpress proofing presses and printing equipment, analog typographic design iterations, typographic poster layout, full analog production of a poster, print form making, printing in several color-runs and QA presentation.

Perfect for

  • Graphic Design students
  • Typographers
  • Poster designers
  • Graphic artists who miss a manual or experimental design process.

Requirements for participants

Applications for the August Session (August 5–18, 2018) are open now: Please apply by sending a CV and a one page letter of motivation (both as a PDF).

In this 2 week Typographic Summer program in Switzerland you will do both conceptual and hands-on design work such as handtypesetting, kerning, linespacing and rags. Also Handling of letterpress proofing presses and printing equipment, analog typographic design iterations, typographic poster layout, full analog production of a poster, print form making, printing in several color-runs and QA presentation.

  • Graphic Design students
  • Typographers
  • Poster designers
  • Graphic artists who miss a manual or experimental design process.

Requirements

Applications for the August Session (August 5–18, 2018) are open now: Please apply by sending a CV and a one page letter of motivation (both as a PDF).

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Description

This is an intense 2 week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals with intense typographic layout exercises, guest lectures, evening talks, excursions, Saturday night studio diner and of course, 2o tons of letterpress equipment.

Dafi Kühne is a graphic designer/letterpress printmaker from Zürich + Glarus, Switzerland. Since 2009 he has been working full-time in his studio «babyinktwice» designing and printing posters, invitation cards, brochures and magazines for music, art, architecture, theatre and film projects. Since 2011 he has also been teaching everything from short workshops to full semesters in various universities in Europe and the United States.

This is en exceptional opportunity to see Dafi´s methods and techniques in real life in order to figure our how to create modern graphic design solutions in a traditional letterpress environment.

Workshop times: 8.30am – 6.30pm, ~1 hour lunch break
evenings 6.30pm – ...
The studio is only available during scheduled working times.

Tools and Equipment

What We Provide
  • A 220m2 (2300 square feet) light flooded factory floor
  • Working desks
  • 3 FAG letterpress proof presses
  • ~17 full cabinets of lead and wood type
  • Ludlow hot metal line caster
  • A pantograph to cut wood sorts
  • A 80W 60x90cm (23.5x35.5 inches) laser cutter
  • A photopolymer processor
  • Many powered and manual tools
  • Paper and Ink
Bring Your Own
  • Lunch

Detailed Daily Program

June 16 or July 28 / with Dafi Kühne

Evening: Welcome reception, studio tours, short presentation

June 17 or July 29 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Individual work space preparations,
Hands on: Task 1 «Material tests»
Afternoon: Hands on: Task 1 «Material Tests», Discussion

June 18 or July 30 / with Rudolf Barmettler

Morning: Theory Input 1 «Microtypography: Kerning, tracking and mikro spacings»
Afternoon: Hands on: Typography 1 «Typesetting & Kerning»
Evening: Talk: Niklaus Troxler, www.troxlerart.ch

June 19 or July 31 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Hands on: Task 2a «Form and space»
Afternoon: Hands on: Task 2b «Form, space and qualities»
Evening: Movie Screening: «Farewell – ETAOIN SHRDLU»,
Discussion

June 20 or Aug 1 / with Rudolf Barmettler

Morning: Theory Input 2 «Macrotypography: Paragraphs and macro spacings»
Afternoon: Hands on: Typography 2 «Typesetting a justified paragraph»
Evening: Individual work: Concept writing for Task 3a

June 21 or Aug 2 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Hands on: Task 3b «Content reduction»
Afternoon: Excursion: Zurich Poster Collection, a guided private tour through one of the biggest poster archives in the world!

June 22 or Aug 3 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Hands on: Task 3c «Typographic iterations for a poster layout»
Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
Evening: Traditional Swiss Raclette dinner at the studio

June 23 or Aug 4

Day off!

June 24 or Aug 5 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Hands on: Task 3c «Typographic iterations for a poster layout»
Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
Evening: Talk: Erich Brechbühl, www.erichbrechbuhl.ch

June 25 or Aug 6 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback

June 26 or Aug 7 / with Dafi + Rudolf Barmettler

Morning: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
Evening: Design finalisation, printing block production

June 27 or Aug 8 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Printing block production, letterpress production
Afternoon: Letterpress production
Evening: Letterpress production

June 28 or Aug 9 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Letterpress production
Afternoon: Letterpress production
Evening: Finishing up

June 29 or Aug 10 / with Dafi Kühne

Morning: Presentation, discussion, documentation, packing up

Description

This is an intense 2 week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals with intense typographic layout exercises, guest lectures, evening talks, excursions, Saturday night studio diner and of course, 2o tons of letterpress equipment.

Dafi Kühne is a graphic designer/letterpress printmaker from Zürich + Glarus, Switzerland. Since 2009 he has been working full-time in his studio «babyinktwice» designing and printing posters, invitation cards, brochures and magazines for music, art, architecture, theatre and film projects. Since 2011 he has also been teaching everything from short workshops to full semesters in various universities in Europe and the United States.

This is en exceptional opportunity to see Dafi´s methods and techniques in real life in order to figure our how to create modern graphic design solutions in a traditional letterpress environment.

Workshop times: 8.30am – 6.30pm, ~1 hour lunch break
evenings 6.30pm – ...
The studio is only available during scheduled working times.

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  • June 16 or July 28 / with Dafi Kühne

    Evening: Welcome reception, studio tours, short presentation

    Show More
  • June 17 or July 29 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Individual work space preparations,
    Hands on: Task 1 «Material tests»
    Afternoon: Hands on: Task 1 «Material Tests», Discussion

    Show More
  • June 18 or July 30 / with Rudolf Barmettler

    Morning: Theory Input 1 «Microtypography: Kerning, tracking and mikro spacings»
    Afternoon: Hands on: Typography 1 «Typesetting & Kerning»
    Evening: Talk: Niklaus Troxler, www.troxlerart.ch

    Show More
  • June 19 or July 31 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Hands on: Task 2a «Form and space»
    Afternoon: Hands on: Task 2b «Form, space and qualities»
    Evening: Movie Screening: «Farewell – ETAOIN SHRDLU»,
    Discussion

    Show More
  • June 20 or Aug 1 / with Rudolf Barmettler

    Morning: Theory Input 2 «Macrotypography: Paragraphs and macro spacings»
    Afternoon: Hands on: Typography 2 «Typesetting a justified paragraph»
    Evening: Individual work: Concept writing for Task 3a

    Show More
  • June 21 or Aug 2 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Hands on: Task 3b «Content reduction»
    Afternoon: Excursion: Zurich Poster Collection, a guided private tour through one of the biggest poster archives in the world!

    Show More
  • June 22 or Aug 3 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Hands on: Task 3c «Typographic iterations for a poster layout»
    Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
    Evening: Traditional Swiss Raclette dinner at the studio

    Show More
  • June 23 or Aug 4

    Day off!

    Show More
  • June 24 or Aug 5 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Hands on: Task 3c «Typographic iterations for a poster layout»
    Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
    Evening: Talk: Erich Brechbühl, www.erichbrechbuhl.ch

    Show More
  • June 25 or Aug 6 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
    Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback

    Show More
  • June 26 or Aug 7 / with Dafi + Rudolf Barmettler

    Morning: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
    Afternoon: Individual work on task 3c, individual feedback
    Evening: Design finalisation, printing block production

    Show More
  • June 27 or Aug 8 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Printing block production, letterpress production
    Afternoon: Letterpress production
    Evening: Letterpress production

    Show More
  • June 28 or Aug 9 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Letterpress production
    Afternoon: Letterpress production
    Evening: Finishing up

    Show More
  • June 29 or Aug 10 / with Dafi Kühne

    Morning: Presentation, discussion, documentation, packing up

    Show More

Tools and Equipment

What We Provide
  • A 220m2 (2300 square feet) light flooded factory floor
  • Working desks
  • 3 FAG letterpress proof presses
  • ~17 full cabinets of lead and wood type
  • Ludlow hot metal line caster
  • A pantograph to cut wood sorts
  • A 80W 60x90cm (23.5x35.5 inches) laser cutter
  • A photopolymer processor
  • Many powered and manual tools
  • Paper and Ink
Bring Your Own
  • Lunch

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The Location

The workshop will take place in Näfels, in the beautiful region of Glarus, Switzerland. This is straight in the Swiss Alps at the foot of some beautiful surrounding 2900MASL (9000FASL) mountains. Accommodations is on the participants own expense. It makes sense to find something direct in Näfels itself, since we begin quite early in the morning and some evening programs might take a little longer. We provide a list of possible hotels in Näfels. We're on the countryside, so please do not expect any 5* hotels... If you have any problems or need help with booking, contact us and we see what we can do for you.

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The workshop will take place in Näfels, in the beautiful region of Glarus, Switzerland. This is straight in the Swiss Alps at the foot of some beautiful surrounding 2900MASL (9000FASL) mountains. Accommodations is on the participants own expense. It makes sense to find something direct in Näfels itself, since we begin quite early in the morning and some evening programs might take a little longer. We provide a list of possible hotels in Näfels. We're on the countryside, so please do not expect any 5* hotels... If you have any problems or need help with booking, contact us and we see what we can do for you.

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Typographic Summer Program

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