Stefan Sagmiester

Stefan Sagmeister born August 6, 1962 in Austria is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister & Walsh Inc.—in New York City. Sagmeister is on of the most influencial designer of the present time and is responsible for designing album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. His perspective towards design and his motto is "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution." Sagmeister has made a name for himself in design profession and has been awarded many great awards in the design world in these last 10 years.

His work can be linked to the style created by David Carson in the early 1990’s and has developed on the grungy style relying heavily on handwritten typography which is meshed and scattered alongside imagery and photography. Sagmeister has heavily impacted design in these last 10 years and his studio is presently still working on corporate designs and branding of large corporations, editorial design publishing more than one book, websites and apps and advertising to name a few

References

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/work/

http://designmuseum.org/design/stefan-sagmeister

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html

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