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 for his compositions—from a MacBook to a pantograph—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. This is Kühne’s first monograph.
Edited by Reto Caduff
With contributions by David Shields and Rudolf Barmettler
Designed by Dafi Kühne