From a definitive teenage moment when he decided he wanted to design album covers to the fulfilment of that dream collaborating with the likes of Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones, Stefan Sagmeister’s rise to fame is firmly rooted in the music industry. But beyond the dishevelled rock-star appearance, the fame and the subversive design, the Austrian-born, New York-based graphic supremo has a long-standing mission to ‘touch people’s hearts with design’. Exceedingly polite, highly articulate and self-aware he describes his trademark script as a means of eliminating the tedious process of choosing typefaces. Continue reading →