Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister 

The famous graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister (August 6, 1962) is designer which is based in New York. He is also a lettering artist which means he incorporates the manipulation of letters with his works. He is also the co-founder of a design company called Sagmeister and Walsh alongside his colleague Jessica Walsh which is based in New York City. His works included album covers for famous musicians such as the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith.

Sagmeister started his graphic design career at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. After some time he received a Fulbright scholarship from the Pratt Institute in New York. His career of an actual graphic designer started when he was at the age of 15 with “Alphorn” which was an Austrian magazine for youths. The magazine was named after a traditional musical instrument which was used by people in the Alpine regions.

During 1991, his journey in graphic design took him to Hong Kong  to work with an individual which goes by the name of Leo Burnett to work with Hong Kong Design Group, two years later in 1993 he went back to the city of New York to collaborate with Tibor Kalman’s M and Co design company although his stay in there was short lived because after a while Kalman decided to retire from the design business and went to work for the Colors magazine which was part of the Benetton Group which was situated in Treviso in Italy.

After that happened, Sagmeister made the proceedings to form his New York based company named Sagmeister Inc which specializes in branding, packaging and graphics for a lot of diverse clients like bands such as the Rolling Stones, broadcasting services such as HBO and telecommunication companies such as Time Warner.  

Sagmeister is very well known to have collaborated with a lot of famous people such as the musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed.

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