Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister (2018)

Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer . He lives and works in New York City .

life and work

Sagmeister attended the Federal Higher Education and Research Institute for Graphics, later studied graphics and design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and with a Fulbright scholarship at the Pratt Institute in New York . At the age of 29, Sagmeister moved to Hong Kong to work for the Leo Burnett advertising agency .

Stefan Sagmeister (2008)

In 1993 he moved back to New York and founded Sagmeister Inc., his own agency. He has lived out his passion for music with CD cover designs and packaging for numerous well-known artists, including Lou Reed , the Rolling Stones , David Byrne , Aerosmith and Pat Metheny . In 1997 and 1999 he designed posters for the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), the front page for the design magazine Print (March / April 1996) and the New York edition of the Japanese design magazine Idea .

To Peter Hall's publication about him and his work, "Made you look" designed Sagmeister design (2009).

Since June 2012 he has been running the agency together with designer Jessica Walsh under the name "Sagmeister & Walsh". For 2018 they were invited to design the Austrian contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale .

In 2016 he produced a documentary about happiness "The Happy Film" by trying out various recommended ways to get there.

Together with Jessica Walsh, he showed an exhibition on the subject of beauty in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts in 2018.

Awards

Sagmeister has been nominated six times for a Grammy and won it twice. He received a Grammy for the album design of the long player “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads and for “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today” . He has also received several international awards.
In June 2008, Sagmeister received the "Klopfer" design prize awarded by students at the Cologne International School of Design .

In 2009 Sagmeister received the Lucky Strike Designer Award endowed with 50,000 euros .

In 2013 Sagmeister was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

In 2014 Sagmeister received a practical scholarship from Villa Massimo in Rome.

In 2016 he was named Austrian Abroad of the Year .

In 2018 he was Austrian of the year in the international success category .

literature

Publications

Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far , Abrams, New York 2008, ISBN 0810995298 (English).
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far , Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2008, ISBN 9783874397476 (English).
Stefan Sagmeister: Made you look. Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2009, ISBN 387439770X (German, English).
Stefan Sagmeister: Another book about Promotion and Sales Material. Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2011, ISBN 3874398196 (German, English).

Secondary literature

Peter Hall: Sagmeister. Made you look. Booth-Clibborn, London 2001, ISBN 1-86154-207-0 .
Peter Hall: Sagmeister. Made you look. Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-87439-770-4 .
Anita Kern, Bernadette Reinhold, Patrick Werkner (eds.): Graphic design from Viennese modernism to today. From Kolo Moser to Stefan Sagmeister. From the collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Springer Verlag, Vienna 2010.
Till Huber: "Designing happiness". In: POP. Culture and Criticism, Heft 8, 2016, pp. 76–87.

Lectures

7 rules for making more happiness

Exhibitions

2001: Stealing Eyeballs in the Künstlerhaus Vienna
2002: Handicraft in the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
2003: Handicraft in the Museum of Design in Zurich
2003: Sagmeister Inc. On a Binge at the DDD Gallery Tokyo
2015: Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show at the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
2016: Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show at the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main)
2018: Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty in the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
2019: Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty in the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main)

Filmography

2016: The Happy Film (documentary)

Web links

Commons : Stefan Sagmeister - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Stefan Sagmeister in the catalog of the German National Library
Sagmeister's homepage with his work
Works by Sagmeister in the Austrian National Library
21 Things Interview with Sagmeister - Tom Bieling, Design Research Network (German)
Video interview in Hillmancurtis' Artist Series
Biography in Vorarlberger Nachrichten
Portrait of Sagmeister in brand eins 11/2010

Individual evidence

↑ He is the philosopher among designers , welt.de, November 20, 2009, accessed on September 17, 2014
↑ Renaming of the agency: Top designer Stefan Sagmeister and new partner get naked (June 1, 2012)
↑ orf.at: "Freespace" - Austria at the 2018 Biennale . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.
↑ Architecture Biennale 2018: Austria commissioner Verena Konrad presents her ideas . Article dated November 9, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Official website The Happy Film
↑ Welt am Sonntag No. 44, November 4, 2018, p. 63.
^ "Kölner Klopfer" 2008 ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ derStandard.at last accessed on February 21, 2016
↑ orf.at - Sagmeister is “Austrian Abroad of the Year” . Article dated September 3, 2016, accessed September 3, 2016.
^ Diepresse.com: Courage, creativity and commitment: The Austrians of the year . Article dated October 23, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018.
↑ http://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1236066402408&aktuelles_id=1252940394462
↑ http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212237?rskey=YBB03T&result=1
^ Fiell Charlotte and Peter, "Contemporary Graphic Design," p. 260-263 bags ,.
↑ http://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/de/museum/ausstellungen/stefan-sagmeister-the-happy-show.html
^ Exhibition Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty - MAK Museum Vienna. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
↑ Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty / Museum of Applied Art. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sagmeister, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian graphic designer and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bregenz

[1] He is the philosopher among designers , welt.de, November 20, 2009, accessed on September 17, 2014

[2] Renaming of the agency: Top designer Stefan Sagmeister and new partner get naked (June 1, 2012)

[3] orf.at: "Freespace" - Austria at the 2018 Biennale . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.

[4] Architecture Biennale 2018: Austria commissioner Verena Konrad presents her ideas . Article dated November 9, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.

[:0-5] Official website The Happy Film

[6] Welt am Sonntag No. 44, November 4, 2018, p. 63.

[7] "Kölner Klopfer" 2008 ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[8] rStandard.at last accessed on February 21, 2016

[9] orf.at - Sagmeister is “Austrian Abroad of the Year” . Article dated September 3, 2016, accessed September 3, 2016.

[10] Diepresse.com: Courage, creativity and commitment: The Austrians of the year . Article dated October 23, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018.

[11] ttp://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1236066402408&aktuelles_id=1252940394462

[12] ttp://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212237?rskey=YBB03T&result=1

[13] Fiell Charlotte and Peter, "Contemporary Graphic Design," p. 260-263 bags ,.

[14] ttp://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/de/museum/ausstellungen/stefan-sagmeister-the-happy-show.html

[15] Exhibition Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty - MAK Museum Vienna. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .

[16] Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty / Museum of Applied Art. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .