Thursday, September 4, 2014

Stefan Sagmeister






Stefan Sagmeister, co-founder of the design firm Sagmeister & Walsh Inc., was born on August 6, 1962 in Bergenz Australia. He is a New York based graphic designer and lettering artist and has designed album covers for artists such as Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith, and Pat Metheny. He has received two Grammies and won the National Design Award for Communications from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Sagmeister studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. He has designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients such as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum, and Time Warner. His personal motto is “Design that needed guts fron the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution.”

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