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Dafi Kuhne 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, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, he pushes the boundaries of design. Never afraid of getting his hands dirty in his creative workshop, Kuhne embraces the labor involved in the entire process of creating a poster from initial idea to fi nished 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.

Dafi Kühne ist ein Schweizer Designer, der mit analogen und digitalen Mitteln arbeitet, um frische und einzigartige Poster im Hochdruckverfahren herzustellen. Mit unterschiedlichen Instrumenten für die Herstellung - vom MacBook bis zum Pantograf - verschieben seine Kompositionen die Grenzen des Designs. Ohne Angst vor schmutzigen Händen integriert Kühne in seiner Kreativwerkstatt den gesamten Schaffensprozess eines Plakats von der ersten Idee bis zum fertigen Produkt in seine Arbeit. Er verbindet dabei moderne Mittel mit der jahrhundertealten Tradition des Buchdrucks und schafft so ein neues Vokabular einer un-nostalgischen Kommunikation mittels Typografie und Form. Seine Arbeit ist niemals "retro" und findet kluge Antworten in der Suche nach neuen Wegen des graphischen Ausdrucks: echte Druckgrafik.

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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, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, 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.

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Kühne, Dafi
Dafi Kühne ( 1982) is a graphic designer. He studied Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts and owns a design and letterpress printing studio named babyinktwice. He was included in Print magazine´s ®20 under 30¯ list in 2012. True Print is his first monograph. Dafi Kühne ( 1982) ist Grafik-Designer. Er studierte Visuelle Kommunikation an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und besitzt ein Design- und Buchdruckstudio namens babyinktwice. Er war im Jahr 2012 auf der ®20 unter 30¯-Liste des Magazins Print. ®True Print¯ ist seine erste Monographie.

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