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Stefan Sagmeister: World-renowned Design Icon speaks in VancouverThe Society of Graphic Designers of Canada BC Chapter announced Stefan Sagmeister as a featured speaker at the 2008 Salazar Student Design Awards.
Stefan Sagmeister has been recognized across the world for his unique approach to design stemming from diverse sources of inspiration.
A native of Austria he moved to New York to continue his design studies at the Pratt Institute, and during his career his dictums have made their way on to billboards, light-boxes, projections and over-sized inflatable monkeys, to name a few.
In 1993, Sagmeister's formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner.
A long-standing artistic collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed, Sagmeister received a Grammy Award for art directing the Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads.
He is the author of the design monograph "Made You Look" which was published by Booth-Clibborn editions and Solo shows on Sagmeister Inc's work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul.
In addition, he teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art 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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