Born in 1962, Stefan Sagmeister has become a world-renowned graphic designer and typographer through his fresh, timeless, and of-the-moment designs. Sagmeister is a Bregenz, Austria native who began his design career at the early age of 15 when he worked for “Alphorn,” a popular Austrian youth magazine. Only a few short years later, Sagmeister studied graphic design at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts. Due to his outstanding work, Sagmeister then received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. Finally, his formal schooling behind him, Sagmeister tried his luck in Hong Kong with advertising executive Leo Burnett’s Hong Kong Design Group in 1991, but he returned to New York after only two years. In New York Sagmeister teamed up with M&Co Design under Tibor Kalman, an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian descent. Unfortunately, as with when Sagmeister was in Hong Kong, his stay at M&Co Design was short-lived thanks to Kalman’s depature to be the editor-in-chief for Colors Magazine.
In the same year of 1993, Sagmeister founded his own firm titled Sagmeister Inc., a New York based design group focused on branding, graphics, and packaging design. Sagmeister had an great affinity for music, which may have been the reason for his common design collaborations with musicians such as Lou Reed and David Byrne. He also design artwork for the Rolling Stones. Along with his work on visualizing music, Sagmeister has been hired by an array of diverse companies such as Time Warner, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. Sagmeister also has a plethora of his own solo shows mounted around the world. He now teaches graduate classes at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and has recently released a book of rules from his personal diary called, "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far." Currently, Stefan Sagmeister is living in Bali, Indonesia taking the year off to refresh his vision and experimentation.
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