Stefan Sagmeister

From my feedback from the Newspaper Club one thing that was strong in my newspaper was a good choice of quotes, however sometimes the quote possibly highlights the wrong words when read by the reader. The newspaper had no images and was very type driven however and it was recommended that explored  display typography, so I want to research into how I could make the type statements out of physical type in the environment rather than just relying on the computer and inject more hand drawn vernacular type into the project. Obviously I wanted to look into Sagmesiter's work as he is renowned for using objects to create type.

One of the projects that really interested me was, 'Keeping a Diary' where the Sagmeister Inc were  invited to Singapore to produce another installment of the series "things I have learned in my life so far." This one minute clip about the importance of keeping a diary was shot in one day in an abandoned historic Tang Dynasty park in Singapore.

Keeping a Diary

Obsessions make my Life worse and my Work better.

"I rarely obsess about things in my private life. I fail to care about the right shade of green for the couch, the sexual details of an ex-lover or the correct temperature of the meeting room AC. I don't think I miss much.

However, I do obsess over our work and think that a number of our better projects came out of such an obsession. Doodling obsessively onto a poster depicting a headless chicken and an obsession with white angry monkeys that ultimately led to the giant inflatable animals all over Scotland are just two such examples.

From Bernd and Hilda Becher's obsessive need to record every water tower to On Kawara's date paintings and James Turrell's Roden Crater, obsessions seem to be an important ingredient in the work of many of our favourite contemporary artists." - Stefan Sagmeister

Urban Play is a project Scott Burnham created for the city of Amsterdam in 2008 in collaboration with Droog Design and presented as part of ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008, which explored open approaches to design and creativity in the city. While some social attitudes have previously dismissed urban intervention as a form of vandalism, at the heart of this current wave of DIY urban design is in fact a deeply sophisticated movement driven by artists and designers who want to expand our relationship between creativity and the city. Done without permission or commissions, the vast range of work on display represents the intersection of the latest genre of street art and the beginnings of open source urban design.When Sagmeister's studio took part in Urban Play Experimenta Design Biennale 2008 there contribution was a large scale typographic installation in a public space set up on a street around Pietheinkade. It consisted over 250,000 cents  put together by 100's of volunteers.