Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer born in 1962. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Pratt Institute. He has designed album covers for musicians like Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, and David Byrne. He has also designed for clients like HBO, The Guggenheim Museum, and Time Warner. Sagmeister has received two Grammy Awards for his design work. He is currently working on a documentary about happiness called "The Happy Film."

1. "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution."
Stefan Sagmeister
(born August 6, 1962 in Bregenz,Austria)
Camille Lam
Georgia Daly

2. • Sagmeister studied graphic design at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna: Pratt Institute
• Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. New York .
• at "Alphorn”-------an Austrian Youth magazine----traditional Alpine musical instrument
• He proceeded to form the New York based
Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed
branding, graphics, and packaging : Martin Woodtli,
and Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker
Album Covers:
Lou Reed,
OK Go,
The Rolling Stones,
David Byme,
Aerosmith and Pat Metheny
Seven Years Long Break
The Rolling Stones,
HBO
The Guggenheim
Museum
Time Warner

3. Grammy Award (2005) : the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition
Package category for art directing Once in a Lifetime box set by
Talking Heads
Achievement
Grammy Award（2010） for Best
Recording Package category .
National Design Award(2005) for
Communications from the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum.

4. Made You Look
published by Booth-Clibborn editions.

5. Poster for the AIGA’s Fresh Dialogue talks in New York, 1996
Poster for the AIGA’s Fresh Dialogue talks in New York, 1996

6. Poster for Lou Reed’s Set the Twilight Reeling, 1996
Invited by Lou Reed to design his
1996 album Set the Twilight
Reeling, Sagmeister inserted an
indigo portrait of Reed in an
indigo-tinted plastic CD case.
When the paler coloured cover is
removed, Reed literally emerges
from the twilight.

7. Graphic illustration for Jay Z's "A New York Holiday"
luxury line at Barneys. Printed on bags, cards, totes,
and other promotional materials at Barneys.

8. Art Direction & Design Aizone, a luxury department store in the Middle East. Taking
the vibrant nature of the brand and presenting it in campaigns that are printed in
newspapers, magazines, and billboards throughout Lebanon.

9. The Levis billboard illustrates the notion of "We are all workers" by
constantly breaking down and rebuilding the typography placed on
turning cogwheels. Billboard installed in SoHo NYC.

10. Design for his book cover ‘Things I have learnt’

11. •
Stefan Sagmeister is currently making a documentary film about happiness called the
‘Happy Film’.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thehappyfilm/the-happy-film