Designer Review

For one of my extra credit assignments, I decided to do a Designer Review on famous designer Stefan Sagmeister. He is a New York based graphic designer who does a lot of typography, working with his company, Sagmeister inc. He has designed album covers for several well known artists such as the Rolling Stones, David Byrne and Aerosmith. One of his pieces that stands out to me, (though it is slightly disturbing). It is a lecture poster that he made where he had one of his students carve with a blade words into himself so he could be photographed. He gained recognition from this photograph because he "self harmed" in the name of design. 

It is seen on his stomach "Style = fart" I am not quite sure what he is trying to say, but I think he is trying to take a lighter approach to design, saying that it really isn't as serious of a thing as most designers make it out to be. But--then again, he is the one carving it into his stomach with a blade--so he created a contradiction. 

The picture can be found at this link-- http://compografo.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/0.jpg

One of the pieces that he did that I enjoy more is the album box set for one of my favorite bands, Talking Heads- "Once in a Lifetime" He received a Grammy award in 2005 for winning Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing its production. It's very lightly colored and has a naturalist feeling at the beach.