Dafi Kühne: Buchdruckplakate?

The exhibition Dafi Kühne: Buchdruckplakate? at the Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig features around 100 letterpress posters. For his designs, Dafi Kühne uses a wide variety of tools, from computers to pantographs, and realizes his ideas on printing presses from the 1960s.

These are posters for art and culture that show the great potential of letterpress printing. Almost any material can be used, from traditional means such as lead type, wood type or plastic type, to clichés and linocuts, to experimental materials such as lasercuts, milled type, textile materials, cast surfaces, or objects. In this way, the rather rigid system of lead type is broken up creatively and opens up a great deal of latitude with diverse possibilities for exciting combinations.

Do posters printed elaborately in letterpress make sense at all in times of digital design and personalized online advertising? The poster creations of Swiss graphic designer and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne clearly say: Yes!

Dafi Kühne: Buchdruckplakate?

Program
May 12th, 2023, 7 p.m.: Lecture by Dafi Kühne (only for participants of the Leipzig Typotage)
May 14th, 2023, 12 p.m.: Dafi Kühne gives a guided tour of the exhibition
June 17th, 2023: Workshop (info to follow soon)
June 18th, 2023, 12 p.m.: Dafi Kühne gives a guided tour of the exhibition

Where?
Stiftung Werkstattmuseum
für Druckkunst Leipzig
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig
Germany

More information here.