Stefan Sagmeister

Things I have learned in my life so far

Jessica Walsh

Acclaimed designers Sagmeister & Walsh explore the essence of beauty and the transformative power of beautiful design In this groundbreaking highly visual book, world-renowned designers Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh set out on a mission: to find out what beauty is and the many ways that it impacts our lives. They turn to philosophy, history, and science to understand why we are drawn to beauty and how it influences the way we feel and behave. Determined to translate their findings into action, Sagmeister & Walsh show us how beauty can improve the world.

Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty

This book began as a list designer Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far and transformed these sentences into typographic works. This series is revealed as a complex blend of personal revelation, art, and design.

Things I have learned in my life so far, Updated Edition

Claudia Gould

Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. The Happy Film Pitch Book both documents Sagmeister's touring exhibition, The Happy Show, and anticipates his ongoing feature length film, The Happy Film. In both projects, Sagmeister undergoes a series of self-experiments (each experiment lasting three months)--with meditation, cognitive therapy, and mood-altering pharmaceuticals--attempting to improve his personal happiness. I am usually rather bored with definitions," Sagmeister says. "Happiness, however, is just such a big subject that it might be worth a try to pin it down." The Happy Show, Sagmeister's first museum show in the United States, documents his adventures in video, print, infographics, sculpture and interactive installations, most of which were custom-made for this exhibition. Here, Sagmeister offers his own witty and poignant thoughts and reasons for his ten-year exploration of happiness. Throughout the book, Sagmeister's trademark maxims serve as access points to a larger exploration of happiness, its cultural significance, our constant pursuit of it and its notoriously ephemeral nature.

The Happy Film Pitchbook

Peter Hall

Stefan Sagmeister has been variously described as a genius, maniac, tactician, exhibitionist. This definitive volume of his work will allow readers to decide for themselves. With over 400 colour illustrations on easy to flip paper Sagmeister Made You Look features an array of the Austrian designer's work, including early theatre posters, grammy-nominated CD covers and the optical trickery and voodoo graphics that sent a low rumble through America's design profession.

Made You Look

Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister has created a book that looks at the state of the world today, illuminating, through collected data, how far we've come, and encouraging us to think about where we can go from here. Statistics are vividly brought to life, as numbers are transformed into graphs, inlaid into nineteenth-century paintings, embroidered canvases, lenticular prints, and hand-painted water glasses. The book includes a foreword from psychologist and leading authority on language and the mind, Steven Pinker; a featured essay by graphic designer and historian Steven Heller; and a conversation between Sagmeister and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine Galleries in London and will appeal to all visually minded readers, providing a positive reaction to the tumultuous news cycle of recent years. Published in softcover with flaps Now is Better is contained within a die-cut slipcase and accompanied by a lenticular print designed by Sagmeister. Now is Better is an intriguing and thoughtful visual meditation on our daily lives.

Now Is Better

Die Welt ist besser als sie denkt. Nur weil schlechte Nachrichten mehr Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen ist es nicht so, dass die Welt immer schlechter wird. Der international gefeierte Kreativstar Stefan Sagmeister geht in seinem jüngsten Projekt der Frage nach, ob tatsächlich früher alles besser war... Er recherchiert Fakten zum Zustand der Welt früher und heute - Zahlen, die Mut machen! - und wandelt sie in ausdrucksvolle Infografiken. Er ersteigert Ölgemälde aus eben nur vermeintlich besseren Zeiten und macht sie mit Skalpell und handwerklichem Geschick zu »Datenträgern« seiner Diagramme. So werden gute Nachrichten zu Kunstwerken. Stefan Sagmeister beherrscht die Kunst, das Gute in der Welt zu visualisieren. Schaffen auch Sie Platz für das Schöne und Gute: In Ihren Gedanken, Gesprächen - und in Ihrem Buchregal! Dieses Buch ist der erste Schritt!

Heute ist besser

My Year Without Clients 2000/01

Martin Woodtli

Chantal Michetti-Prod'Hom

Another Book about Promotion & Sales Material

Just as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Stefan Sagmeister's innovative work shows that graphic design can also cut to the emotional core. Fully illustrated, with a red PVC slipcase, this monograph covers 20 years of his graphic design and features images from the studio archive as well as specific influences and reference points for his projects and ideas.

Rick Poynor

Fabrica

Die -Colors Notebooks- dokumentieren grafische Botschaften aus allen Winkeln der Erde. Im Band -Violence- manifestiert sich auf erschreckende Weise, wie machtig dieses Thema die heutige Welt beherrscht. Gewalt, die von Menschen auf Menschen ausgeubt wird."

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