Process Junkie: Niklaus Troxler

Monday, April 17, 2006

Niklaus Troxler

This Swiss designer/illustrator created tons of posters for jazz festivals in his hometown of Willisau.
For more of his work please click HERE to visit his website.

Most images here come from the book 'Jazz Blvd." by Niklaus Troxler, published by lars Müller. All images © copyright 2006 Niklaus Troxler. All rights reserved, Do not copy without permission from copyright owner.
Published here for scholarly review.

10 comments:

El editor said...: Sensacionales posters. El tudel ( "neck") del saxo convertido en serpiente, la silueta de Monk,las tipografías y los colores... todos están buenísimos. Gran "capo" el suizo Niklaus Troxler, voy corriendo a visitar su sitio.

¡Gracias Alberto por iluminar!; April 17, 2006 11:42 AM
Candy Minx said...: Hi Just stopped by for a quick fix and a howdy do while checking out the images and music.

Hope its a nice spring day where you are..

Candy
http://gnosticminx.blogpsot.com/; April 17, 2006 3:24 PM
Rebekit said...: these are fantastic; April 17, 2006 10:31 PM
Kim said...: Hola Alberto:

Queria felicitarlo por trabajo tan excelente. Me facina. Ahora que me agregue a este circulo espero poder seguir disfrutando su trabajo.

Buena suerte!; April 18, 2006 12:10 AM
1 said...: primaries take a stand and clame their own complexity, expressed in their vibrancy and intricate simplicity.

thanks for sharin'; April 18, 2006 12:19 AM
1 said...: *spell check is for dweebs

(behold the revolution); April 18, 2006 12:20 AM
Process Junkie said...: One: heh, heh!
With you as our leader, victory is no longer a dream.
Un besote para ti, muahh!

Asesino de la Música :): Eso es lo tuyo, que lo disfrutes. Pasá por acá este fin de semana, tengo otras cosillas que estoy seguro van a ser tu agrado.

Me concedes que añada una o dos de tus canciones a mi 'Radioblog playlist'? la próxima semana será 'Jazz Week'.

Candy: I'm down here, in the basement, there could be a blizzard blowing outside for all I know, but thanks for the nice wishes :)

Rebekit: Indeed :)

Kim: Gracias, Kim. Saludos a Nelson Diaz!; April 18, 2006 1:10 AM
Brooklyn Bluesman said...: Hey Alberto,
Thanks for the intro. Seeet. Brings back happy memories of NYC and all the great jazz I heard and art I saw.Keep up the great blog. I thinlk it's great that you give fellow artists some props.; April 18, 2006 2:22 AM
El editor said...: Dear Process:
Concedido con toda gracia. Esperemos que ese agregado no contribuya a que la "Jazz Week" se transforme en un "Jazz Weak".
Me paso por el fin de semana y nos tomamos un "Trapiche"... eh?
"The Music Murderer"; April 18, 2006 2:27 PM
A. Riabovitchev said...: Great posters!I love it!:O); April 19, 2006 2:13 AM

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.

This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .

Oscar Wilde.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.

Le Corbusier.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Why?"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."

Oscar Wilde.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Niklaus Troxler

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