Stefan Sagmeister

We have 17 objects that Stefan Sagmeister has had a hand in. Here's the break-down:

• Art Director, 9 objects
• Designer, 6 objects
• Design Team member, one object
• Design Director, one object

These are a couple of those things by Stefan Sagmeister in our collection:

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  Poster, "Poster for the Stefan Sagmeister AIGA Program in Detroit [Text... This object's accession number is 2000-61-4 and is dated 1999 This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department This object was designed by Martin Woodtli

  
  
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  Book, "Zumtobel 01-02 Annual Report", 2002 This object's accession number is 2011-34-7 and is dated 2002 This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department We have 6 images of this object

  
  

Cooper Hewitt

Born in August 6, 1962 in Bregenz Austria, active in America. Education: Vienna School of Applied Arts (Master of Fine Arts) and formed small design group with fellow classmates called Gruppe Gut (Good Group). Won Fulbright grant to study in Chicago but declined in hopes to go to New York. He reapplied the following year and won the grant to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (graduated in 1988 with Master of Science, Communication Design). Teaching positions: Parsons, New York, School of Visual Arts (from Fall 1999: Graphic Design Department). Previously worked for M&Co., Leo Burnett, and Muir Cornelius Moore. Established own studio in 1993. Created CD covers for Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Pat Metheny, and David Byrne. Other works include Kunsthalle Tirol in Austria, catalogs for Lipanje-Putin Gallery in Trieste, Italy and lyric book for Lou Reed. He is subject of book called "Stefan Sagmeister: A Designer's Life (1998). Recipient of four Grammy Award nominations and numerous design awards including Grand Prix Moscow, Art Directors Club (Silver), The One Show (Gold), AIGA, 100 Shows, Type Directors Club.

Wikipedia

Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 in Bregenz, Austria) is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister & Walsh Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.

Biography

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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 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.

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."

Sagmeister goes on a year-long sabbatical around every seven years, where he does not take work from clients.

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.

Further reading

• Sagmeister, Stefan: Made You Look - Peter Hall (Booth-Clibborn, 2001) ISBN 978-1-86154-207-6; also Abrams paperback edition (2009): ISBN 978-0-8109-0597-9
• Sagmeister, Stefan; Things I have learned in my life so far (2008) New York:Abrams, ISBN 978-0-8109-9529-1
• website associated with above book: www.ThingsIHaveLearnedInMyLife.com

See also

• Category:Albums with cover art by Stefan Sagmeister

References

External links

• Sagmeister Inc.
• London Design Museum's entry for Sagmeister
• Portraits of Stefan Sagmeister @ The Design Museum by Bartolomy
• 7 rules for making more happiness

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