Stefan Sagmeister | |
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.jpg) Sagmeister in 2024 | |
| Born | (1962-08-06)August 6, 1962 (age 63) Bregenz, Austria |
| Education | Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Pratt Institute, New York City |
| Known for | Graphic design,film |
| Website | sagmeister |
Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962) is an Austriangraphic designer,storyteller, andtypographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry.[1] He has designed album covers forLou Reed,OK Go,The Rolling Stones,David Byrne,Jay Z,Aerosmith,Talking Heads,Brian Eno andPat Metheny.[2][3] From 2011 until 2019 he partnered withJessica Walsh under the name Sagmeister & Walsh Inc.[4][5]
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He began his design career at the age of 15 at "Alphorn", an Austrian Youth magazine, which is named after thetraditional Alpine musical instrument.[6] Sagmeister studied graphic design at theHochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, graduating in 1986.[7][8] He later won aFulbright scholarship to study at thePratt Institute in New York, where he received aMaster of Fine Arts degree.[9]
In 1991, Sagmeister worked withLeo Burnett's Hong Kong Design Group.[10] In 1993, he returned to New York to work withTibor Kalman'sM & Co. design company.[11] In 1993, he set up his company Sagmeister Inc in New York. He has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as theRolling Stones,HBO, theGuggenheim Museum andTime Warner.[2][3] He is the author of the design monograph "Made You Look" which was published by Booth-Clibborn editions.[12][13] He teaches in the graduate design department of theSchool of Visual Arts in New York and was previously the Frank Stanton Chair at theCooper Union School of Art, New York.[14][15]
Sagmeister became the subject of controversy after his performance of a lewd joke about animalfellatio at the annual web conferenceWebstock in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 2017, embarrassing a sign language interpreter and upsetting some in the audience.[16] The organizers apologized to the interpreter in person, and to attendees following the incident, and on Twitter.[17]Webstock organizers also followed this apology up with a longer statement on their blog.[18]The joke, according to Fast Company, involved having a sign language interpreter assigned to his talk "interpret a story about a manatee giving itself a blowjob", with repeated requirements to the interpreter to use gestures to indicate the sex act.[16] Sagmeister later apologized through the Sagmeister & Walsh Twitter account,[19] and from his personal Instagram account.[20]
Sagmeister received aGrammy Award in 2005 in theBest Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directingOnce in a Lifetime box set byTalking Heads.[21] He received a secondGrammy Award for his design of theDavid Byrne andBrian Eno albumEverything That Happens Will Happen Today in theGrammy Award for Best Recording Package category on January 31, 2010.[21]
In 2005, Sagmeister won theNational Design Award for Communications from theCooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.[22] In 2013 Sagmeister was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria.[23]
In 2018 he was voted Austrian of the Year by the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.[24]
2000Design Biannual, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York[25]
2001Stealing Eyeballs, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; Solo exhibition, GalleryFrédéric Sanchez, Paris[26]
2002 Solo exhibition,Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna[27]2003 Solo exhibition, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland; Solo exhibition, DDD Gallery Tokyo[28]
2012The Happy Show,Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[29]
2013The Happy Show, Design Exchange, Toronto[30]
2013 The Happy Show.MOCA, at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles[31]
2013Jewish Museum, New York[32]
2013The Happy Show,Chicago Cultural Center[33]
2013The Happy Show, Paris, Gaite Lyrique[34]
2015The Happy Show,Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna[35]
2015The Happy Show, The Museum of Vancouver,Vancouver, Canada[36]
2015The Happy Show,Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt[37]
2018/2019Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty,Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna[38]
2019Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty, Mak Frankfurt[39]
2019Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg[40]
2021Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty Fondation d’entreprise Martell[41]
2021Beautiful Numbers,Thomas Erben Gallery[42][41]
2022Sagmeister & Walsh: BeautyVorarlberg Museum, Bregenz, Austria[43]
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