Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Stefan Sagmeister


Stefan Sagmeister, born 1962 in Bregenz, Austria is a graphic designer and typographer working in New York. He had made his own designs for firm Sagmeister o& Walsh Inc. Company in New York City and also had designed music album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, etc.
Sagmeister first studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and then later received a Fulbright scholarship to study more in graphic design at the Pratt Institute in New York.
At the age of 15, He then got a job at "Alphorn" an Austrian Youth magazine (which was named after the traditional Alpine musical instrument) as a graphic designer and typographer.
Stefan Sagmeister designed this music cover of David Byrne’s Feelings album in June 17, 1997. He designed the cover for Luaka Bop/Warner Bros to use the 90s Alternative rock music for this album.
In this cover, he designed David Byrne as a 3D digital character pasted in front of the title. He uses big and small x-heights with Ascenders and Descenders for the title and the person's name. the title is set in large size with small capitals and the persons name is set in small size with capitals letters.

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