Sagmeister Made You Look

by Hall, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781861542076
• ISBN10: 1861542070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Booth-Clibborn

Summary

Stefan Sagmeister has created his own monograph with novel and playful design innovations, exploring twenty years of irreverent and award-winning work.

Table of Contents

Growing up in Austria	17	(26)
In which Stefan Sagmeister is born and raised and attempts to embark on a career as an anarchist, a musician and an engineer before heeding his true vocation, graphic design
Learning from New York	43	(24)
Comprising particulars of Sagmeister's first extended stay in New York City, in the pedagogical shelter of the Pratt Institute and the perilous hinterlands of the Lower East Side
Goodbye, Vienna	67	(16)
A very short chapter, but it should be read, notwithstanding, as a prequet to the next
Hello, Hong Kong	83	(26)
Wherein Sagmeister masters the arts of advertising, overwork and imbibing amid the exotic splendors of the Far East; and enrages his peers with reference to certain parts of the human anatomy
Back in New York	109
Introduces some famous characters, including Mr Mick Jagger, Mr Lou Reed and Mr David Byrne, and shows how Sagmeister and his accomplices established a reputation in the music industry and notoriety among designers