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[daniellefoushee]

Lovely #branding work by Stormy Nesbit #gradstudent #design #designstrategy #publicservice #asumvcd @asudesignschool (at The Design School - ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts)

[daniellefoushee]

Critique -- @avcd_asu #design #graphic #gradschool @asudesignschool #asumvcd @asuherberger #makestuff #think (at The Design School - ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts)

[daniellefoushee]

Group pic of my #gradstudents last week on their #streetart #fieldtrip at #rooseveltrow -- #murals #centralphoenix #dtphx #asumvcd @asudesignschool @asuherberger @avcd_asu #sunshine #bluesky #design #visualresearch #lovethisplace #placemaking #walking #urbanhike #doglovers (at Roosevelt Row Arts District)

[zhenqiwang]

#paper #paperwallet #asumvcd give it a chance to make it green (at Arizona State University)

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Memory: Documents of Contemporary Art

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Things I have Learned in my Life so Far

There is no doubt that this book has one of the most attention-getting covers ever seen. The collection box includes eighteen books all with separately designed covers. The front of the box has organic shapes cut into Sagmeister’s face. Each book put behind the façade makes him look different. Some of the covers have shapes that coincide with the shapes in the box, while others disregard the openings altogether.

        Each booklet tells a story about one or two projects. Sagmeister explains the story with pictures, journal entries, and dialog. The first booklet I read had a black and white bullseye on the front, the kind that is used to create optical illusions. There are two projects in here: Worrying Solves Nothing and Over Time I get Used to Everything and Start Taking it for Granted. The first project was done with Austria school kids, 25,000 black coat hangers, and 35,000 white coat hangers. The children and Sagmeister built cubes out of the hangers. They used 4 for each side and then built the cube shape. Each cube became a pixel and each pixel became part of the message: “Worry Solves Nothing.” The words ended up being over 10 feet high and a city block long.

The second project, Over Time I get Used to Everything and Start Taking it for Granted, is a series of photos taken throughout New York City in places Sagmeister had never been to before. Because of these unique stops, he could not take them for granted. Among various other things, Sagmeister swam in the Hudson River at 6:00 a.m. with letters painted on his chest, marking a word on a dirty cop car and hanging out the window of a thirtieth floor window holding a sign until the police and fire trucks arrive. At this point in the story, he narrowly misses being arrested.       After reading several other booklets, I realized that Sagmeister tells a story through type, photography and video (accessed online). At times he will share the story or journal entry to explain what the project was. This part comes at different times in these small booklets. Sometimes they are at the end and other times they are in the middle. Never does he tell the story before the viewer can see part of the project. This seems to help pull you through the images. Some of the images that are not as interesting end up having the explanation in the middle. This makes the reader want to see what happens after. Sagmeister plans things for his work and does not worry about repercussions. This is probably why we see his work as so cutting edge. People are scared to do what he does. He seems to live like a 20-year-old boy still with ideas that are surprising. The most interesting part of his stories is how he gets to the idea. All of his ideas seem to come from his journals or things that keep him up at night. As a designer that keeps trying to write a daily journal, which seems like a great source to get encouragement.