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Graphic Design Superstar Stefan Sagmeister  Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian-born US based contemporary graphic designer, typographer, performance artist, writer and film maker whose current studio is in New York.   He also teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Slanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Stefan, the youngest of six children, like many in their youth, liked music and the images on the album covers.   He also had a passion for designing and began his designing career at age 15.    After graduating high school, he enrolled in an engineering college, opting later to enroll in graphic designing courses.   He applied to the University of Applied Arts Vienna (being accepted after his second try), where he received his MFA and in 1987 earned the Fullbright Scholarship for New York based Pratt Institute.  He also has a Masters in Communicatio...

Project 1 - Continuous Line - Squirrel Squirrel Word List (this list we came up with during our class session) Additions to Word List: ADD Fast Juggler Fidgety Feisty Over eaters Stealing/Thieves Invading Birds (feeders/bird baths) Cartoons (Ice Age, Rocky the Flying Squirrel)  Squirrel Thumbnails After pulling sketches together and discussion with classmates and instructor it was decided it would be best to work with my original designs for a "Juggler Squirrel", "Runner Squirrel" and a "Chunky Squirrel". On January 21st...While researching more about squirrels...Found out that January 21st is "National Squirrel Appreciation Day" Came up with different versions of my "Juggler Squirrel", "Chunky Squirrel" versions, "Runner Squirrel" versions. It was voted on by classmates that the "Runner/Thief Squirrel" would be th...

"Saul Bass & Title Design" The Saul Bass design for Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds" is a very simplistic and stylized design but is very bold with the colors used along with the informational background for "The Birds" .  The way that the feather outline somewhat 'surrounds' the actual movie information reminds me of how 'The Birds' in the movie, surround the actual lives of the people in the movie. I feel that the use of the red-orange overlay with the white feather works well. "Art of the Title" For this I reviewed many opening credits for many movies and have chosen, There are two versions with this particular title/theme.  The original one being the 1965 television version which was written by Michael Garrison as somewhat of a James Bond on horseback for the television audience who at the time were geared towards western themes and spy themes. The 1999 movie was based on the...