What Would You Ask Sagmeister?
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By now, you’ve got to know one of the most influential designers alive today, Stefan Sagmeister, is coming to Denver to speak on March 7th. (The event is sold-out for all you slow pokes.) However, there are two very cool things you can still take part in if you missed the boat.
1 – Anyone who’s a member of AIGA Colorado (or becomes a member) will have one of the exclusive posters featured below, and designed by Sagmeister, Inc., sent to them automatically. To qualify you need to ensure your address is up-to-date with AIGA or join the club as a new member. Do that here by noon on Thursday. It’s the ONLY way to get a poster.
2 – Andy Bosselman and AIGA Colorado have set us up to interview Sagmeister a few days before the big show. If you’ve followed Stefan’s career over the years, you know he’s been interviewed hundreds of times by hundreds of people. There simply are no questions left that he hasn’t heard before. So we want to craft an interview that surprises and entertains him – ensuring we get answers that no one has heard before.
We want your help coming up with ideas for the form the interview could take and some questions that it might contain. An IQ test? A design test? We’re looking for big ideas to impress someone who’s been coming up with them his entire life. What you got for us, Denver? Tuesday, February 26th is the deadline for thinking.
Comments
David Stone February 22, 2008
Stefan, how do I get a ticket
Stefan, how do I get a ticket to your sold out event?
The Denver Egotist February 22, 2008
Way to contribute David,
Way to contribute David, seriously. For all the game you talk, you’d think you’d have one conceptual idea in your head for the form of this interview. Then again…
David Stone February 22, 2008
But wait. From all the gripes
But wait. From all the gripes I’ve heard in this town, I’m to understand that designers aren’t conceptual at all so why would I ask a conceptual question, hmmm?
(discuss amongst yourselves)
David Stone February 22, 2008
I lived down the street from
I lived down the street from Cranbrook (the school he did his infamous Iggy Pop/Sid Vicious style body mutilation poster for) so I’m well aware of who he is. The only question I have for Stefan is, and I repeat, how can I get a ticket to the sold out event?
Robert W. Taylor February 25, 2008
Stefan,
After watching your
Stefan,
After watching your video clip from the TED conference where you indicated you may be a bit superstitious about going to new places, any fears about coming to Denver?
You’ve got a sell out so isn’t that a good sign?
But my serious question is how you feel now about your Detroit/Cranbrook poster where it appears the copy was actually carved into your skin. It got my attention, but has it turned out to be an image that people can’t get beyond and has it stood in the way of some work?
Anyway, hope there were no scars. Welcome to Denver.
Katie February 26, 2008
Your most famous designs are
Your most famous designs are consistently remembered for being daring, ballsy, or bizarre. These works, some might argue, have also led to your celebrity status in the design world. The shock factor has also had a big influence on the fame of fine artists like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. Where do you draw the lines between design and art? What makes “Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far” distinct from a work of art?