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.
Details
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).
Detailed Daily Program
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
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About Näfels
About Näfels
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12  Pictures of the Accommodation and 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.