Stefan Sagmeister

International graphic designer and artist

“Design and Happiness”

Monday, October 5, 2009 · 8:00PM · Ingle Auditorium (Student Alumni Union)

Talk Description

“Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution.” Featured projects included 'Trying to look good limits my life' (a five-part typographic billboard series, Art Grandeur Nature, 2004), originally displayed in a park north of Paris and rooted in the sign-painting tradition of his grandfather in Austria, and 'Things I have learned in my life so far' (Abrams, 2008; 15 covers, 256 pages), in which Sagmeister's own personal maxims — among them 'Having guts always works out for me' and 'Everything I do always comes back to me' — were published worldwide as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and giant inflatable monkeys.

Biography

International graphic designer and artist; author of Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far and Sagmeister: Made You Look.

Trying to look good limits my life, part 1: Trying — Part 1, "Trying," from the five-part billboard series Trying to look good limits my life (2004).

Trying to look good limits my life, part 4: limits — Part 4, "limits," from the same billboard series.

Also issued a 'Design Challenge' to RIT students as part of his visit.