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‘design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of this in the final execution .’. SaGmeister. Stefan. Short history……. A n ew york based graphic designer born in A ustria 1962. Studied at the university of applied arts in V ienna.
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‘design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of this in the final execution.’ SaGmeister Stefan
Short history…… Anew york based graphic designer born in Austria 1962. Studied at the university of applied arts in Vienna. Formed his own design firm in 1993 called Sagmeister inc. Some of his mostly acclaimed work includes album covers For the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and David Byrne. ‘designs that evoke memories’
Mountains Of Madness, HP Zinker. Capturing a transformation from calm to freakish rage. the calm man, printed in green, appears under the case. The angry man, printed in red, emerges as the booklet is slid from the case. This design was nominated For a Grammy award.
Cigarettes fitting perfectly into a CD case was the fitting design for cover a for Jamie Block a singer songwriter and Committed Rothmans reds Smoker. The rothmans brand name is Replaced on each cigarette with The album title Timing Is Everything. Smoking cigarettes as a record of time passing is the central Motif. Partially smoked cigarettes Illustrate the length of each track. ‘having guts always works out for me’
copy magazine.aninstalment in the series ‘things i have learnt so far’ starting a charity is surprisingly easy ‘designs that are viewable over and over again and again’
An image built up using a number of one symbol, in this case the It’s the apostrophe. ‘designers who’s craft levels are very high and unbelievable skills’
Virtual web projection rips apart where ever a reflection touches it. A part of ‘things I have learnt So far.’ ‘extremely labour intensive design’
AIGA Detroit An attempt to visualize the pain that often accompanies design projects. Or as Sagmeister put it ‘’the anxious periods, the fighting and the pain.’’ The most notorious poster design to have ever emerged from Sagmeisters studio. Sagmeisters earlier attempt for the book Whereisherea chaotic amalgamation of work by different contempo- -rary graphic designers. ‘being not faithful works against me’
Broken up into 5 parts and displayed in sequence as typographic billboards and displayed in parks. Other similar pieces and quotes are Having gut always works out for me and Everything I do always comes back to me trying to look limitsmy good life ‘hepling other people helps me’
Adobe Design Achievement Awards This student award poster depicts a designer creating an award-winning work out of paper coffee cups running on pure caffeine as many design students do. ‘designs that bring on surprise’