Sunday 7 November 2010

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at Vienna Design Week, graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talks about his Austrian background, the benefits of keeping a diary and trying to prevent his studio growing.






Top portrait is by John Madere. Above: Worrying solves Nothing, made of coat hangers in Linz. Photograph is by Otto Saxinger


http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/13/dezeen-podcast-stefan-sagmeister-at-vienna-design-week/




Sagmeister also introduces his ongoing project Things I have Learned in My Life So Far, in which notes from his own diary are emblazoned across billboards and magazine pages.




Above: Assuming is Stifling, for GGG / DDD gallery annual report. Photograph is by Matthias Ernstberger







“Everybody should talk about everything that’s everywhere. 
Design is everywhere.”
Stefan Sagmeister (b. Bregenz, 1962) set up his New York studio Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has designed for the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum, et al.

Above: Having Guts Always Works Out For Me, for .copy magazine. Photographs are by Bela Borsodi
In 2008, Abrams published Things I have learned in my life so far by Sagmeister.
Sagmeister Inc. has had solo shows in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, Seoul, and Miami.

Sagmeister currently teaches at the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures throughout the world.


Above: Keeping a Diary Supports Personal Development, one minute movie shot in Singapore
He studied at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, was a Fulbright Scholar, and received a Master’s degree from the Pratt Institute in New York.



Above: Keeping a Diary Supports Personal Development, one minute movie shot in Singapore



Papillons Graphiques - New Zealand designer Chris Waind

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies.Called Papillons Graphiques, the pieces are packaged in a metal tin that includes a set of pins so they can be displayed pinned to a board like a real butterflies would be in Victorian collections.Each piece is a digital print on watercolour paper to give a textured feel.