Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister

"Stefan Sagmeister is one of today's most innovative and influential graphic designers. His conception and application of graphic design goes above and beyond traditional notions of the practice, taking it to the realm of performative and conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Sagmeister is most widely known for his album cover artwork for bands like The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads and Lou Reed, and for books, like Mariko Moriís Wave UFO for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, which function as sculptural objects."

- The Errant ∆sthete

"Stefan Sagmeister's creative world is marked by his innovative way of merging the unmergeable."

- Dexigner

"Sagmeister's cover designs visualize musical contents; through traditional techniques such as typography and processing, they capture the public's attention."

- Mak-online

Set the Twilight Reeling

Promo Poster for album

"Lyrics are extremely personal...."

Bridges to Babylon

CD Packaging

Vilcek Award, 2006

Sculpture Design: Trophy

Paula Scher

Paula Scher

Scher has developed identities, packaging for a broad range of clients from The New York Times Magazine to Target, from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center to The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

"Paula Scher has designed a new identity for the Philadelphia Orchestra...Scher's redesign coincides with the arrival of Charles Dutoit as the orchestraís new chief conductor and artistic adviser, and the new identity establishes a classical and modern brand for this important institution...There is a playful balance of scale between the mark and the logotype, and the P may also be used by itself in applications where a small scale would render the logotype illegible, or where the mark and logotype may appear as separate elements.

- Pentagram

"With a career spanning 35 years so far, Paula Scher continues to set standards in graphic design with bold imagery and a highly illustrative approach to typography."

- Computer Arts

The Diva is Dismissed, 1994

Public Theater Series posters

India, 2007

Hand-pulled screenprint

Metropolis' Net@Work Conference, 2000

Poster Print

Package Design: New & Old

"Cranium WOW"

2008

Designer: Sandstorm Partners

Parent Company: Hasbro

Cranium WOW includes a game board, 600 new cards, a 10-sided die (the 9-sided die wasn’t working), a tub of purpley-fresh Cranium Clay, a timer, drawing pads, presharpened pencils, 4 customizable character movers with interchangeable hats and hairdos, and sass.

"100% Chocolate Cafe"

2008

The concept behind Tokyo's 100% Chocolate Cafe is to put your senses in the middle of a chocolate kitchen. With 56 types of different chocolates, even cheese and black pepper chocolates. 

"Country Cousin"

 ice cream cartoon

1950

"Piano Needles"

1936

Said to be a rip off of the well-known Japanese brand Organ Needles.

"Morton Salt"

1912

Joy Morton developed Morton's Table Salt  

Canister invented by J. R. Harbeck 

(NORM) Dimitri Buni & Manuel Krebs

NORM
a Zurich-based graphics team.
Designing for commercial projects such as the typography for
Cologne Airport and Swiss Watchmaker Omega.


"...defined their own graphic language in print and on screen by determinedly ignoring the established conventions to create their own highly complex parallel system."

"...work is characterized by an highly skilled use of typography and print as well as a playful approach to technology."
- Design Museum

"The Thing's experimental graphics and text may be a little baffling to those (like me) who are unfamiliar with their theories, but the 2003 book is a great source for any font nerd or for those curious about the relationship between words and images."
- Ami Kealoha, Cool Hunting

Norm: The Things, 2002
A book outlining the Norm's (Krebs and Bruni) concept of breaking down shapes and fonts into their essential elements.

Bruce Lee, 2005
Remake of the book "Bruce Lee - The King of Kung Fu."

However, the remake is completely reversed in its chronology and in the manner of text direction (reading from left to right).

Sign Generator, 2002
Collaboration - Jürg Lehni
A lighted grided tool that generates possible combinations of lines.
(Watch video if you visit the site)

Art NEWveau! Mucha!

Alphonse Mucha

Pole Star, 

Alphonse Mucha

The flower border displays fluidity with its repetitive style.

The solar ring highlight baffles me because this design is still popular in the 21st Century.

Summer 1896, 1896

Alphonse Mucha

Variations of textures, techniques, and style used in this decorative panel, presents an eye catching or attention getting aesthetic. A mixture of the real and the surreal.

  

Madonna in the Lilies, 1905

Alphonse Mucha

The fluidness and natural organic flow of the cloth is great example of the art style of Art Nouveau.

Soft pastels colors highlighted by gold and rich tones.

NEW START, NEW CLASS

Advanced Graphics

Icon#5 & 6

Job Cigarettes, 1898

Alphonse Mucha

Art Nouveau

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

American Art