Designer-printmaker Dafi Kühne created this series of posters for Tunnel-Glarus, a cool performance venue in Glarus, east central Switzerland. Kühne says he enjoys working with the unconventional club, located in an old tunnel, ‘because it’s so visual already.’
During a client meeting about the series, which started in 2022, Kühne proposed creating large posters that could be used in multiple ways. His ideas included wheat-pasting the posters outside the club, sending them to club members and supporters and selling them as collectables to visitors. The Tunnel-Glarus team were fully behind these plans, but there was a catch: shipping large posters could be expensive – and the budget was limited.
Kühne, who is known for his flexible approach to production and problem-solving, thought about creative solutions. Could they make two different sizes of posters, but keep it within budget? To keep shipping costs down, they would need to reduce the posters to a quarter the size. He decided to use the exact same linocut blocks to print first one 70 x 100 centimetre poster and then two smaller 35 x 50 centimetre posters that could be shipped easily. All posters were printed on Materica Gesso – 250g/m2 for the larger posters and 120g/m2 for the smaller size.
Stay tuned for our next issue Pulp 27, which will feature more about Dafi Kühne’s work and practice.
Tunnel Series Format: 1 – 70x100cm and 2 – 35x50cm
Paper: Materica Gesso, 120g/m2 and 250g/m2
