Stefan Sagmeister

Recent articles about Stefan Sagmeister

The perils of interdisciplinarity [EXTRACT]

Issue 107, Winter 2025

Review

The timeline runs a single thread through key moments in Sagmeister’s development …

Democracy is in the details

Issue 44, Summer 2002

Review

‘One more session and we’re outta here,’ said John Hockenberry. ‘We can all go back to…

Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul

Issue 83, Summer 2012

Review

Philadelphia ICA, never an institution to shy away from re-contextualising culture and art, has a…

Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Review

In past years the biennial conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has…

Nameless thing

Issue 57, Autumn 2005

Feature

Tokyo’s TDC rewards work that transcends means, intention, content, context – and just ‘is’

Ready for its close-up

Issue 64, Summer 2007

Feature

After 50 years as a famous face, Helvetica gets to star in its own feature film

Overprinting

Issue 47, Spring 2003

Feature

Statistics, expression, economy and a tactile display of the passage of time

Conference madness

Issue 49, Autumn 2003

Feature

It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll

Another self-indulgent design monograph

Issue 41, Autumn 2001

Review

A wall of Stefan Sagmeister’s work / live apartment in New York bears the handwritten…

A glimpse of graphic hell

Issue 53, Autumn 2004

Opinion

Whatever ideological stance they take, designers must at least believe in design

Recent blog posts about Stefan Sagmeister

Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven

27 October 2014
Critical path, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice
Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work…

Collaboratively speaking

14 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Reviews

A report from day two of the AGI Open conference at London’s Barbican.
Day two of AGI Open kicked off with insights and wisdom about ‘collaborative practice’, write…

Chat show

11 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from day one of the AGI Open conference in London, where the theme was ‘dialogue’
London’s AGI Open set out to shun the standard conference show-and-tell format, and to bring…

Gumballs in Philadelphia

15 April 2012
Graphic design, New media, Posters, Reviews, Visual culture

Joan K. Smith reviews The Happy Show’s mix of art, design and science
So I didn’t eat one of the chocolates, or chew one of the happiness-rated yellow…