Presented by the Cooper Union’s Herb Lubalin Study Center and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Dafi Kühne is an award-winning Swiss designer and letterpress printer who continuously pushes the boundaries of design. In his studio in the remote Swiss mountain village of Näfels, he works with analog and digital techniques to produce unique letterpress-printed posters that are visually mesmerizing and fascinating in brilliance and printing quality. In conversation with Poster House Curator Angelina Lippert, Dafi presents his work, shares his approach to Swiss Typography, and gives insight into his fascinating production process. Together they ask: Do printed posters in times of digital displays in urban spaces still make sense? And why should posters be produced at great expense using the antiquated letterpress printing process, when digital printing devices can deliver high-quality reproductions at much lower cost? In the words of Dafi Kühne “letterpress printing can only live on if the design is at the heart of the process and makes the connection to the present”.

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Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer and letterpress printer. In his studio, he uses a wild mix of analog and digital tools to produce cultural posters. With this one main rule in his studio «No PDF ever leaves the studio as a final product», he prints all posters with letterpress printing presses. His mostly typographic posters have won international awards and been in exhibitions all around the globe.

Angelina Lippert holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. Prior to working at Poster House, Angelina served ten years as a poster specialist at a leading New York City auction house. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.

The event is co-presented by the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Poster House, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.