Field of Activity
Annik Troxler teaches Graphic Translation I and II in the BA Visual Communication and Digital Spaces programme, plac-ing particular emphasis on the process and experimentation. She also heads an impulse workshop on image and typog-raphy in analogue and digital techniques and teaches the Identity course with Philipp Stamm and Critical Design with Leander Eisenmann. She is also mentoring BA theses and involved in aptitude tests.
Biography
Annik Troxler studied Visual Communication, specializing in graphic design, at the ECAL in Lausanne from 2000 till 2004. Since 2006, she has been working as a freelance designer in Basel for clients from the culture sector. She conducts workshops worldwide and has been a lecturer at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel since 2011. Annik Troxler's own posters are often created using screen printing, almost all of them using analogue techniques. They are internationally exhibited and published and have won awards.
In 2018, she won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Biennale of Graphic Design and a Silver Medal at the Ecuador Poster Bienal. In 2008, she won first prize at the International Festival de l'Affiche in Chaumont and, in 2006, the Grand Prix at the International Poster Triennial in Toyama.
Annik Troxler's posters are in the collection of the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung, the poster collection of the Basel School of Design, the Hamburg Museum of Art and Design, and the Cooper Hewitt, New York.
Annik Troxler has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2013.
Lectures
2025
Lecture and Jury at the 29th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Poland
2021
Lecture at Ultrafett at the FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
2019
Lecture at Typomania in Moscow
Lecture at Typographics at Cooper Union New York
2015
Lecture at the FH Konstanz
2011
Lecture in Albarracin, Spain
Lecture at Ultrafett at the FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
Workshops
2019
Workshop at Center for Visual Arts, Berlin
2017
Workshop at Design Summer 9, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2011
Lecture & workshop in Albarracin, Spain
Workshop at Center for Visual Arts, Berlin
Exhibitions
2024
Exhibition Wiki Women at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2023
Königinnendisziplin – Plakate von Gestalterinnen. Museum für Gestaltung Zurich
The F*Word at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2022
Exhibition at affichage publique, Geneva
2019
Exhibition at Typomania in Moscow
2016
Exhibition at Weltformat Graphic Design Festival in Lucerne
2015
Groupe-Exhibition "Play" at the Fotokino in Marseille, France
2014
Exhibition at the Soirée Graphique in Bern
2008
Exhibition 4xTroxler at Phoenix Creative, Hangzhou, China
Exhibition at Kunstmai Stadtmühle Willisau
Ausstellung Wiki Women at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg