Type Tuesday: Dafi Kühne. In person. In print
Type Tuesday: Dafi Kühne. In person. In print
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Type Tuesday: Dafi Kühne. In person. In print
St Bride Foundation,
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Bridewell Hall 7-9.30pm
Eye magazine’s first Type Tuesday of 2025 will feature Swiss poster designer, letterpress printer and graphic design educator Dafi Kühne. Dafi will be talking about his work and will be showing (and selling) some of his full size posters.
‘Working in Näfels, eastern Switzerland, Dafi Kühne is a pioneer in reviving and updating letterpress techniques, combining what he calls “true printing” with digital technology and hand-cut 3D plate elements,’ wrote the late Jan Middendorp in Eye 100. ‘Like most Swiss designers of his generation, Dafi Kühne started studying with a digital practice in mind [but] soon realised that being a digital designer was not what he was looking for. He decided his vocation was to control every aspect of production, including typesetting with metal and wood type …’
Some Eye readers will remember Dafi’s memorable contribution to our online lockdown Type Tuesday in March 2021 (below), with Dines, Malika Favre and magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie.
‘Kühne’s work does not revel in the romanticism that stifles much contemporary letterpress; instead it eschews the historic and handmade,’ wrote Ross Shaw in an Eye 94 review of Kühne’s book True Print, which says that letterpress allows Kühne ‘an obsessive level of control freakery, able to personally change every detail right through the process, until the very last moment when the work is finally trimmed … you get the feeling this is both a vocation and a compulsion.’
Black and white pictures of Dafi Kühne in his studio by Peter Hauser.
Copies of Dafi Kühne's latest book 'Poster Cult' will be available to buy on the night, along with a selection of bargain back issues.
Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students
There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue Eye 107, plus bargain back issues.
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Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).
All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.
Ticket is non-refundable, however you are welcome to offer your ticket to another person. Please contact events@sbf.org.uk to change the name of your booking at least seven days prior to the event date.
Organiser
Established in 1891 with a clear social and cultural purpose, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.
Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, St Bride Foundation was originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, and is now finding a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops.
Many thousands of books, printing-related periodicals and physical objects are at the heart of St Bride Library. Volumes on the history of printing, typography, newspaper design and paper-making jostle for space alongside one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of type specimens. The printed, written, carved and cast word may be found at St Bride in its myriad forms. Architectural lettering and examples of applied typography in many media, together with substantial collections of steel punches and casting matrices for metal types are also held in this eclectic collection. The Reading Room is open to visitors twice a month and on other days by appointment. Although we operate on a cost-neutral basis, it is necessary to charge for some of our services. Details are available by emailing the library team at library@sbf.org.uk.
St Bride retains many of its original features, including the baths, laundry, printing rooms and library. As part of the Foundation’s original mission to provide for the community, many of the building’s unique and characterful spaces are available to hire whether for meetings, weddings or classes.
St Bride also houses the popular Bridewell Theatre, and Bridewell Bar (once the laundry), and hosts a year-round programme of plays, comedy, music and exhibitions.
With some 65,000 visitors a year St Bride Foundation is a major London hub for the creative arts in London. We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Venue
St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ London
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Type Tuesday: Dafi Kühne. In person. In print
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