Stefan Sagmeister
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 Sagmeister in 2008 |
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| Born | 1962 (age 49–50) Bregenz, Austria |
| Nationality |  Austrian |
| Field | Graphic Design, Film |
| Training | University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna Pratt Institute, New York City |
| Works | Set the Twilight Reeling poster (1996) AIGA Detroit poster (1999) Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far (2008) |
| Website | sagmeister.com |
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.
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[edit] Biography
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.[1]
In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong to work with Leo Burnett's Hong Kong 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.[2]
Stefan 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-standing 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."[1]
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, 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.[3]
[edit] Awards
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.[4]
[edit] Further reading
- Sagmeister, Stefan: Made You Look - Peter Hall (Booth-Clibborn, 2001) ISBN 978-1861542076; also Abrams paperback edition (2009): ISBN 978-0810905979
- Sagmeister, Stefan; Things I have learned in my life so far (2008) New York:Abrams, ISBN 978-0810995291
- website associated with above book: www.ThingsIHaveLearnedInMyLife.com
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- ^ a b Stefan Sagmeister Podcast Interview. ARTINFO. 2008. http://www.austria.info/channel/podcast.html. Retrieved 2008-12-08
- ^ Rawsthorn, Alice (February 3, 2008). "What Stefan Sagmeister has learned in his life so far". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/01iht-DESIGN4.1.9677515.html?pagewanted=1.
- ^ http://printmag.coverleaf.com/printmag/200902/?pg=36
- ^ "Communications Winner: Stefan Sagmeister". Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/2005/award.asp?catID=cd&nameID=SAG.
