innovators

Our second innovator is Stefan Sagmeister, an award winning Austrian graphic designer and typographer.

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Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer and typographer currently based in New York City. He has his own design firm, Sagmeister Inc working for a diverse set of clients and is the second Innovator to join .

Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. Having been nominated five times for the Grammies he went on to win one for his design of the Talking Heads boxed album set in 2005. He has also earned practically every important international design award.

In 2008 a comprehensive book titled "Things I have Learned in my Life so far" was published by Abrams. Solo shows on Sagmeister Inc's work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne,Seoul and Miami. He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures extensively on all continents.

A native of Austria, he received his MFA from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a master's degree from Pratt Institute in New York.

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