Poster Hamish Grimes, 1972

Hamish Grimes’s typographical poster “lets the sunshine in”: a symbol of peace and love as the Vietnam War raged on. “Montreux Jazz” is written in a distinctively seventies typographic style as the top half of a glowing vinyl sun. With the subsequent addition of its reflection, this curved text would go on to become the Festival’s first logo.

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