- Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 in
Bregenz ,Austria ) is agraphic designer andtypographer currently based inNew York City . He has his own design firm, Sagmeister Inc. He has designed album covers forLou Reed ,the Rolling Stones , David Byrne,Aerosmith andPat Metheny .Biography
Sagmeister studied graphic design at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna . He later received aFulbright scholarship to study at thePratt Institute in New York.In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong to work the Leo Burnett's Hong Kong Design Group.In 1993, he returned to New York to work Tibor Kalman's
M&Co design firm. His tenure there was short lived, as Kalman soon decided to retire from the design business to edit Colors magazine for theBenetton 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 , theGuggenheim Museum andTime Warner . Sagmeister Inc. has employed designers includingMartin Woodtli ; and Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, who later formedKarlssonwilker .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, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul. He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York.
He has received a
Grammy Award in 2005 in Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing "Once in a Lifetime" box set byTalking Heads . He would also work on the 2008David Byrne andBrian Eno album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today ".Further reading
* "Sagmeister: Made You Look" - Peter Hall (Booth-Clibborn, 2001)
* "Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my Life so far" (Abrams 2008)ee also
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External links
* [http://www.sagmeister.com/ Sagmeister Inc.]
* [http://www.designmuseum.org/design/stefan-sagmeister London Design Museum's entry for Sagmeister]
* [http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/sag.html Video interview with Sagmeister] in hillmancurtis' [http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video.shtml Artist Series]
* [http://www.typotheque.com/articles/how_good_is_good.html Sagmeister lecture - "How Good is Good?"]
* [http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/09/27/visiting-stefan-sagmeister/ Interview with Sagmeister] in PingMag
* [http://bartolomy.com/blog/?p=573 Portraits of Stefan Sagmeister @ The Design Museum by Bartolomy]
* [http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/04/02/wdrw-sagmeister Interview with Sagmeister] on ScribeMedia.org
* [http://fora.tv/2007/09/27/Stefan_Sagmeister_Creative_Genius Video of presentation by Sagmeister] at PICNIC07 in Amsterdam, September 2007
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