STEFAN SAGMEISTER


Stefan Sagmeister is among today’s most important graphic designers. His firm, New York-based Sagmeister Inc. formed in 1993, has designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. Nominated five times for the Grammies, he won for the “Once in a lifetime” Talking Heads boxed set. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. Sagmeister created a stir with his poster design for his talk at the AIGA conference in 1999, an image created by cutting all of the type onto his own body with an X-Acto knife. Solo shows of Sagmeister Inc.'s work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, Seoul and Miami.

In 2001 he published a best selling monograph titled “Sagmeister, Made you Look”. His new book, "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far" will be released in 2008.

Sagmeister teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures extensively on all continents. A native of Austria, he received his MFA from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a master's degree from Pratt Institute in New York. 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 earned practically every important international design award.

Complete with a swanky style all his own and a charmingly bohemian outlook, Sagmeister claims that, astonishingly, he has only learned twenty or so things in his life so far. But he did manage to publish these personal maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupied by advertisements and promotions: as ?billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report? covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys.

website: www.sagmeister.com