17/09/2026
What happens if, instead of designing an image and then printing it, the printing process itself becomes the image?
Il sole dopo la pioggia (The Sun After the Rain) began with this question.
Developed through a series of experiments between 2009 and 2010, and published in 2011 as Un Sedicesimo 24, the project was created by Demian Conrad at the invitation of Pietro Corraini for Corraini Edizioni.
No computer was used to compose the images. The drawings were made directly on the offset printing plates, dripping developer liquid onto their surface. Each drop removed part of the image: a small opening in the darkness, a hole in a cloud, a place through which colour and light could pass.
Page after page, the storm slowly clears. The black sky is crossed by coloured rain, the clouds disperse, and the white of the paper begins to breathe again.
An early experiment in what would later be called computerless graphic design, the project sought to bring gesture, chance and craftsmanship back into the mechanical heart of printing.
Because sometimes, to make an image appear, you have to take something away.
Demian Conrad
Un Sedicesimo 24 — Il sole deopo la pioggia
Corraini Edizioni, 2011
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Available here
https://corraini.com/products/un-sedicesimo-24?_pos=1&_sid=f778322c8&_ss=r
