The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.  In late 2006, Katrín Ólína was commissioned to create the official festival poster and visual identity for the 2007 festival.  Ólina was the second woman in the 40 years history to design a poster for the Festival after Niki de Saint Phalle in 1984.  The poster presents an imaginary world inhabited by fantastical musical characters, all picking up and playing various instruments. Katherine E. Nelson, who wrote an article about the artist in Print magazine, has this warning for those expecting typical Scandinavian minimalism from Katrin Petursdottir: “you’re on the wrong planet”. The artist’s creations, which lie somewhere between art and graphic design, would be more easily classified as ethereal. Each piece can be viewed as a story still being created, which she has plucked from her dreams. Her work is “kinetic and instinctive, its development is intuitive”. Designing the poster for the Montreux Jazz Festival fits perfectly with her creative process, which she considers “closer to making music than to painting”

A limited edition Moleskine was produced for the event. 

2007 Montreux Jazz festival identity Adaptation

Katrín Ólína with Quincy Jones                                                                                                              

Festival shop 2007 ; t-shirts, tote bags, hooddies, caps, hats, key-rings, towels, postcards...and of course posters. More Montreux Jazz shopping.