1. Stefan Sagmeister was born on August 6,1962 and is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City.
12 Facts About Stefan Sagmeister
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Stefan Sagmeister has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Pat Metheny.
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Stefan Sagmeister began his design career at the age of 15 at "Alphorn", an Austrian Youth magazine, which is named after the traditional Alpine musical instrument.
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Stefan Sagmeister studied graphic design at the Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, graduating in 1986.
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Stefan Sagmeister later won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree.
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Stefan Sagmeister has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner.
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Stefan Sagmeister is the author of the design monograph "Made You Look" which was published by Booth-Clibborn editions.
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Stefan Sagmeister teaches in the graduate design department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York.
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Stefan Sagmeister received a Grammy Award in 2005 in the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads.
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Stefan Sagmeister received a second Grammy Award for his design of the David Byrne and Brian Eno album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today in the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package category on January 31,2010.
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In 2005, Stefan Sagmeister won the National Design Award for Communications from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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In 2013 Stefan Sagmeister was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria.