Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Field Journal 10: Stefan Sagmeister

CI was so intrigued by Stefan Sagmeister's Lou Reed poster that I wanted to  found out a little more about him and the other pieces of art that he has done.

Sagmeister has been quite the traveler. He was born in Australia, studied graphic design in Vienna, Italy, and later studied in New York. He moved to Hong Kong for tow years to do some work and then moved back to New York to form Sagmesiter Inc. Since he has had such clients as Rolling Stones, HBO, and Time Warner. He is also the author of the design monograph "Made You Look." He teaches in the graduate department for the School of Visual Arts in New York.

His motto is
 
"Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution."


He has won two Grammy Awards, one for directing "Once in a Lifetime" and the other for the design of the album cover "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today."(seen right). 


He designed a handful of album covers and the one that I liked the most of the cover that he did for the band okgo. I enjoy how he uses soft, curvy lines in the flowers with the contrast of the stiff, straight lines of the lettering of okgo. It is interesting how the predominate object in the picture is white and almost seems unfinished. 


 Sagmesiter's book "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far" is comprised of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut case. The book grew from a list that he wrote in his diary while taking a year off. He turned these things that he learned into art. Here are some of my favorites. 






His art is just so unique and different that it is like a breath of fresh air. I really enjoy it! 


Credits:
http://www.google.com/images?q=Stefan+Sagmeister&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=ugT2TOLWKIGusAOV1LHICw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CFcQsAQwBA&biw=1680&bih=935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Sagmeister
http://downloadbookz.com/things-i-have-learned-in-my-life-so-far.html




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