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Table of Contents S A G M E I S T E R
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Body Art
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Biography
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Works of Art
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Famous Quotes
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Having guts always works out for me.
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Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution.
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Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 in
Bregenz, Austria) is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm Sagmeister Inc.—In New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.
Sagmeister studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He later received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. He began his design career at the age of 15 at “Alphorn”, an Austrian Youth magazine, which is named after the traditional Alpine musical instrument. In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong
to work with Leo Burnett’s Hong Kong
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Design Group. In 1993, he returned to New York to work with Tibor Kalman’s M&Co design company. His tenure there was short lived, as Kalman soon decided to retire from the design business to edit Colors magazine for the Benetton Group in Rome.
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Sagmeister proceeded to form the New York based Sagmeister Inc. In 1993 and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. Sagmeister Inc. Has employed designers including Martin Woodtli, and Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, who later formed Karlssonwilker. Stefan Sagmeister is a long stand-
ing artistic collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. He is the author of the design monograph “Made You Look” which was published by Booth-clibborn editions.
Solo shows on Sagmeister, Inc.’s work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Japan, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul. He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. His
motto is “Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution.
Sagmeister goes on a year-long
sabbatical around every seven years, where he does not take work from clients. Currently on one in Bali, Indonesia, he is resolute about this,
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even if the work is tempting, and has displayed this by declining an offer to design a poster for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Sagmeister spends the year experimenting with personal work and refreshing himself as a designer.
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Sagmeister received a Grammy Award in 2005 in the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads. He received a second Grammy Award for his design of the David Byrne and Brian Eno album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today in the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package category on January 31, 2010. In 2005, Sagmeister won the
Communications Award from the Cooper-hewitt National Design Museum.
If I want to explore a new direction professionally it is helpful if i try it for myself first.
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When designing this magazine as
a class assignment I was approach with pretty difficult task. Due to me being a junior designer learning the all the techniques and aspects of design to takes to make something appealing to the eyes of an audience. But the further I played around the sense of visual feel I was going for the more I had I was drawn to Stefan’s quotes such as
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“Trying to look good limits my life”, “Money does not make me Happy” , “Having guts always works out for me”. These
thought resonated in my head for quite sometime providing inspiration towards the final product of this magazine. I had found that Stefan’s quotes are very interesting for myself think around the same perimeters. The theme I decided to choose came early on with the mon-
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keys being placed in odd position while being placed in random places.
For maximum exposer to catch
as many peoples attention. Upon picking Stefan to do this magazine around off first interpretation of him i thought he was a bit odd. However oddness he has, i had found myself trying to put myself into the shoes he walks in. I realized that when a person walks a different path from what’s know to be normal they are the most interesting people to get to know. I personalty don’t know Stefan but looking at his works and putting together this magazine. Has helped me understand him as if to say that I have met him one before maybe in a different life. Stefan Sagmeister, an award winner, a graphic icon, a great man.
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