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Summary: An incredible gift to the designers Community.
Review: A designers journal that, between the old europe, Hong Kong, Vienna and New York, describes, with a revolutionary and persuasive attitude, the daily thinking and the extreme necessity to survive and be successfull as an innovative designer. In it, the most provocative and enjoyable work of the last 20 years. Again an incredible gift to the designers Community.
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Summary: Good Doggie!
Review: Cognoscenti of the New York exotic dance scene have long known Stefan Sagmeister as one of the greatest tushes ever to grace the brass pole. So it comes as quite a shock to see that the Babe from Bregenz seems to have a flourishing daytime career in graphic design.Apparently this man has designed for everyone from Lou Reed to the Rolling Stones to David Byrne. Smart, fun, beautiful work. Who knew? Still, one comes away with the impression that behind the beautiful facade roils the brain of a madman, kept in check (barely) by the day to day business of spacing, kerning and cropping. Clearly an extended stay in a padded cell lies ahead for this emigre ingenue, but until that day... Dream on, young Stefan. Dream On!
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Summary: style=fart
Review: I actually READ this one! You know, not just look at the pictures. What a courageous, talented, outragous guy. His handwritten notes throughout the book were so incredibly easy to relate to, especially if you've worked in this business long enough to know what a "mechanical" is. I have admired this designer via other design annuals for years and I am thrilled he finally shared some of his design journal and work with us- all in his own words. Thank you, Stefan, for having the "balls"!
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Summary: The Sucker
Review: I've been suckered and wowed into a few design monographs, some of which were refreshing, some way to analytical and some just too abstract for any earthling to grab meaning from it. Although no book/theories/processes can save anyone's design soul, seeing/understanding Stefan's work has helped me understand that all elements humor/angst/beauty/finesse/distress/ugliness/cynicism can be mashed into this design work we do and can be done without all of this pontification. This isn't any sort of epiphany, it's just a reaction to all the pretty, high-style fashion driven stuff with no heart/no sense of self that has been floating around for some time. From most of what I've read, humorous yet always self aware, I feel the connection of rock-n-roll/punk ethics expressed more than just see it. I think this example of pure self expression gives reason for anyone to continue to do this type of work.
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Summary: The favorite in my graphic design book library
Review: Stefan Sagmeister pushes the edges way beyond recognition. He ventures places I would (or could) never dare, but this work inspires me to be a little more daring, a little edgier, to design a bit more controversially to get attention and evoke reaction. He has incredible vision and imagination, and is bold enough to carry off some very challenging and creative pieces. The line between graphic design and true art is blurred - wait, absent - in much of his work. I've read the book cover to cover a couple of times, but it's always a pleasure just to leaf through and discover something new and delightful. This is the one book I would not want to do without, if only because he inspires me to try more, do more.
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Summary: what a great great book
Review: this book is a bomb. maybe i just quit being a designer, or i start all over again. thanks, mr. sagmeister, for this design-book you can even READ!!!
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Summary: Overhyped designer? Maybe not enough.
Review: This book is from an era of modern-expensive-top-of-designer-coffe-table-books and from way overhyped art directors as Bruce Mau, David Carson and others. But Stagmeister in another story. Witty, smart, so intelligent and original that I think he really deserves all these 5 stars. Even closed the book has design, good humour and idea. In overhyped designers age, this is the one who deserves it.
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Summary: Thanks, Stephan!
Review: This book was such a relief for my eyes when they're all been fed up with fancy, trendy , modernistic, digital-based design books (or whatever they call themselves).
I realized that I could think and do more than "well-produced mediocrity", thanks to you, Stephan (Hope I'll be in your class one day. I just drew a picture of myself sitting at the table under the slogan fart=style in your office. I know that's where I'll be sitting at 3 years from now)
Best of the Best Books of the Year!
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Summary: what a wonderful man
Review: this is a great book...smart and informative and funny. it's so very understandable why sagmeister is such a successful designer: he seems to be able to humor himself with his existence (humility!), he is talented and quite aware of what is trite and has been done to the point where there's just this mass wall of imagery, oh bad imagery, that all looks the same.
this book is, naturally, very well designed. and it travels throughout Mr. Sagmeister's career from his days as a young fellow in Austria to where he is currently. and it is well written, the accompanying text. kind of like if sagmeister's visuals could become text...the body of the book and the images together. a very good marriage.
this book makes me laugh and think. how rare is that? not that i laugh and think but that a book on some designer is able to do that? this is not dry and dusty, but a good read with necessary... images. whoo hoo! buy it now.
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Summary: Brilliant, as the man himself!
Review: When I read it (it's something you rarely say about a design book) I felt like I'm thinking as one with Stefan. This book is so packed with brilliant design, tricks and humor that every page becomes memorable. It's going to be hard to top this, even for a seasoned designer who decides to write another design monograph. What a joy, Stephan!
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