Born in 1947 in Willisau/Switzerland, Niklaus Troxler is part of the second generation of great swiss graphic designer. From 1963 to 1967, he learned typography by his own. Then he became student Art School of Lucerne from 1967 to 1971. In 1973 he decided to star his own graphic design studio in Willisau. His work became very famous with his posters made for the Jazz Festival of Willisau. His Work has influenced many today’s designers from typographers to illustrators.

Most of his “Jazz” Work is compiled in a 1999 Lars Müller book “Jazz Boulevard“.

Today’s regular calendars are useless. When you need to find a date or organize your schedule you check your iCal or Google’s calendar. SampsonMay offers a great alternative.

I’ve just bought these two amazing posters at Blanka.

The Helvetica film World Premier will take place March 13th at the Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, USA. Gary Also told me that the film will be on the french screens in Paris at Palais de Tokyo around May (tbc).

Southwest Film Festival

From vitsoe.com :

Montreal, Barcelona, Sydney…all Olympic cities

In 2012 London will host the Olympic Games. Sites are being cleared; architecture is becoming design-and-build; budgets are being exceeded. But what can we learn from what has gone before?

In 1967 a team was assembled under the guidance of German graphic designer, Otl Aicher, to oversee the entire design output for the 1972 Munich Olympics. For the next six years a team of up to 40 people produced a body of work of seminal importance, elements of which have now been absorbed into the mainstream of graphic design.

London graphic design consultancy, Bibliothèque, has agreed to exhibit a large proportion of its extraordinary collection of posters, books, manuals, badges and other rare items at 72 Wigmore Street from 15 February to 15 March 2007.

Not only will the entire exhibition be built using the 606 Universal Shelving System but Otl Aicher sat on the other side of the desk when a 23-year-old Dieter Rams went to Braun for a job interview in 1955. What would have happened if Aicher, Erwin Braun and Fritz Eichler had turned him down?

More information:
www.bibliothequedesign.com/72

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/sets/72157594264686838/

15 February to 15 March 2007

72 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2SG
Monday to Saturday
10:00 ­ 18:00hrs