the house artist
For theatres, festivals, publishers, labels and platforms with a programme: one artist and one visual voice for a whole season, a series or a collection. Every poster starts from the work itself.
tell me what it’s about. and I’ll show you what it means.
Posters for people who make things with depth. A play, a book, a record, a whole season. Each one made by hand.
© Meinhard Taxer 2026
Meinhard Taxer, poster artist from the Alps
① I make posters to make sense of things. Freedom, fear, the self, a line of Nietzsche that won’t let go. More than 200 so far. ② Now I do it for your work: I read it, live with it for a while, and give it an image that stays. ③ start with a pilot poster or see the work
the problem
The work is rarely the problem. The image in front of it often is. Maybe one of these sounds familiar.
“ Our posters look fine. They just look like everyone else’s.”
I know that feeling. Months go into a production, a book or an album, and then the image only announces a date and a title.
For me a poster has one job: to carry a feeling, something that moves you, so that people stop and want to know more.
“ I want someone who actually reads the work, not just the briefing.”
That’s where I start. Send me the script, the manuscript or the record. I read, I listen, and I let it sit for a while.
The image grows out of the work itself.
“ How do I know the work I love is the work I’ll get?”
Fair question. Everything I make is out in the open, more than 200 posters, all made by me and none of them generated.
What you see here is what you get.
why this keeps costing you
Here is what the safe option costs. It rarely shows up on an invoice, but you feel it over a year.
“ By the third feedback round, nothing of the original idea was left.”
That’s the real price of a safe process. The work isn’t bad, it just disappears.
And a poster nobody notices doesn’t stay neutral. It makes the thing behind it look smaller than it is.
“ The poster was on-brief, but nobody stopped for it.”
Nobody photographed it, nobody took it home. The first and often only thing people see of your work said nothing about it.
The places people talk about weren’t braver. They found one voice and trusted it, season after season, until you recognised their posters before you read the name.
“ Every premiere starts from zero. New briefing, new compromise.”
Months of attention every year go into images nobody remembers.
A voice that carries through everything you put out isn’t the risky choice. It’s the reason to do this at all.
Same handwriting, a different world every time.
A poster that stands on its own doesn’t end with the event. People photograph it, take it home and hang it on their wall. Forgettable posters never get there, no matter what they cost.
who this is for
I work best with people who already feel something when they look at these posters.
this is you
You make something with depth and want it to be seen for what it is. You like what you see here and don’t want it softened into something safer.
You have a real budget for the image, and one or two people can say yes.
not yet
If every image has to pass through several rounds of approval, we’re probably not a fit yet. That’s okay.
Better to know now than after the pilot.
one idea, the one I stand behind.
I try many directions and show you only one, with the reason why. Send me the work, tell me what matters to you, and leave a little room to be surprised.
one pilot first.
We start with a single poster from your programme. You see how I think before you commit to more. If it feels right, we continue, and the pilot counts toward the whole.
- Pilot poster
- Ready 10 working days after I receive the work.
- The mandate
- A season, a series or a collection, usually eight posters, planned around your dates.
- Rights
- Use for your campaign, programme and website is included. Prints, editions and merch are licensed separately.
- Investment
- Pilot poster € 2,500. A full mandate from € 18,000 for eight posters. The pilot is credited in full when we continue.
- Guarantee
- If the pilot doesn’t feel right, we stop there. No further obligation.
what clients say
Your Move
Your work will get a poster either way. The only question is whether people keep it.
Every premiere that goes out with a forgettable image is a moment that doesn’t come back. Tell me what you’re working on, a few lines are enough. I read every message myself and reply within two working days.
Not planning a whole programme? You can also commission a single poster, or license one from the archive for merch, a cover or a space.
Write to me directly