Parametric mountains
Each sheet starts with seeded ridge points. Needle, dome, saddle, and wall profiles change peak count, snow caps, base altitude, and the amount of offset red and blue registration ink.
Mid-century resort editions, freshly pulled in code
Flat color. High altitude. Every sheet unique.
Alpenpost revives the alpine travel poster as a living machine: seeded ridges, sun plates, gondola cables, ski tracks, birds, route pips, halftone dots, and tiny registration errors are recomposed every time the press reseeds.
- 12ridge algorithms
- 04weather plates
- SVGdownloadable proof
Printed at
Atelier Hochstrasse
Bern-Ost, 07:40 press run
Fresh pulls: Arlenfirn, Sonnenjoch, Val Brenta, Silbergrat +++ 5-color halftone +++ live SVG download +++ no two resort sheets are identical +++
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Gallery wall
Eight resorts, eight fresh press pulls.
Wall A / every card redraws from a different seed
Mountain, weather, activity, route number, and dot screen are recombined
Tap any circular-arrow die to pull one resort again
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How the press behaves
A poster system with ink in its fingernails.
Sky
Ridge
Route
Type
Four plates slide out of register by a few pixels, then lock into one printable SVG.
Resort weather
Morning, noon, alpenglow, and night shift the paper field, sun geometry, sky bands, shadows, and halftone density. The same mountain can feel like February or late July.
Activity plates
Gondolas, ski tracks, hiking switchbacks, thermal-pool steam, birds, and route pips are separate SVG plates. The generator layers them like a printer solving a small puzzle.
Human imperfection
Every final composition gets shifted color plates, clipped type, dot screens, grain, and a paper edge. It is clean enough for a station kiosk, but never sterile.
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Commission desk
Compose your own alpine poster live.
Plate ready: Needle / Morning / Ski.
The SVG includes all shapes, type, print marks, dot patterns, and misregistered plates. No images are embedded.
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Resort program
The 1958 Alpenpost winter and summer list.
Arlenfirn Glacier Week
Seven nights above the blue ice, 42 marked piste kilometers, Sunday brass band at Hotel Edelweiss, and a poster edition limited to 260 railway-station sheets.
- Altitude
- 2,180 m
- Poster inks
- Blue, red, cream
Val Brenta Cable Holiday
Morning gondola to the south terrace, lunch at Caffe Roccia, ridge walk to Bellavista, evening descent through larch forest and warm yellow windows.
- Lift span
- 1,940 m
- Poster inks
- Yellow, blue, black
Lunet Thermal Pass
Snow outside, mineral pools inside, red awnings, cream towels, and a late-night moon poster sold only at the bathhouse cashier.
- Water
- 38.5 C
- Poster inks
- Red, blue, silver
Press log
Today at the Alpenpost studio.
- SVG plates generated
- 0
- Average dot screen
- 18 lpi
- Paper stock
- Warm cream 220 g
- Misregistration window
- 1.8-4.2 px