Artistry and all that jazz
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The Swiss graphic artist Niklaus Troxler mixes a small-town sensibility with urban world music and other big themes. His colorful posters on such varied subjects as jazz, theater, exhibitions, ecology and violence have received numerous awards. Troxler started the Jazz Festival Willisau in his home town; the jazz influence is evident throughout his work. Many of the posters are in intense colors with the text incorporated as patterns.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1996
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Agitprop in the new world
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Graphic artist Alexander Kosolapov uses the tradition of Soviet propaganda to create whimsical ads for products from and in capitalist Russia. His creations range from ads depicting Soviet political figures together with the Seven Dwarves or Spiderman to a Molotov cocktail made out of a bottle of Coca-Cola, to a Vodka campaign built around the slogan 'Freedom of Vodka,' to ads incorporating Marxist statements in an ironic way.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1996
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Beauty of the brush and page
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Graphic artist Michael Schwab considers himself a traditionalist and is known as shunning computer cryptograms and other indecipherable art and design motifs that are common nowadays. Since the 1970s, Schwab has focused almost exclusively on producing posters and logotypes. His design criteria for posters are succinctness, immediacy, and legibility from across a room. His designs are bold with a restrained color palette.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1996
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