Happy designing

Stefan Sagmeister is a designer & art director from Austria who currently lives & works in New York City. He has worked for the Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, & The Guggenheim Museum, among many others. Exhibitions on his work have been mounted in New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Paris, Lausanne, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Cologne & Berlin. He co-directed a documentary "The Happy Film" which premiered this spring at Tribeca Film Festival. 

Stefan is part of Sagmeister & Walsh, a creative agency based in New York City, specialized in brand identities, campaigns, social strategy & content creation, commercials, websites, apps, books, environments, & more.

For the past 20 years, Stefan has been one of the brightest lights in graphic design. To use a word like “legend” in connection to him does not seem too far a stretch. He has received nearly every important international design award & displayed his work in every major design capital across the world. Yet, Stefan is a master on staying small, taking a human approach, & life lessons. Most companies equate success with growth. But Stefan believes that remaining small has been the key to retaining his integrity as a designer & making ideas happen. 

In The Happy Film, Sagmeister pursues happiness like a true designer: systematically, experimentally, & with lots & lots of visuals. Based on extensive reading of positive psychology, he chooses to explore three popular methods for finding happiness: meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, & psychotropic drugs.

Find out how a top designer fights boredom with sabbaticals & forces his brain to start out at new and different points of departure just by booking newly occupied hotel rooms. Do you dare to dream a bit more freely?