Designing Minds: Stefan Sagmeister (Part 3 of 3)

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World-renowned graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister is respected for his maverick approach and gritty, handmade style. Once called "the Johnny Depp of the design world," he blends sexuality, tenacity, and wit to create work that pushes boundaries and never fails to intrigue. Although today he's best known as an innovative interactive artist, his early career predates modern desktop publishing tools.

This week's Designing Minds is the final installment of Zoom In's three-part series about Sagmeister. In it, he explains his interactive art, the importance of collaboration between artists, and exactly what appeals to him about being a designer.

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[alphonsedoinel]

Shitty graphic design is shit. Mediocre graphic design is function. Good graphic design is art. Great graphic design is fine art.

[alvarez4500]

@alphonsedoinel shitty graphic design isn't shit, its design. Bad art is still art, it comes down to the intent and how well its executed.

There is always a function behind design that art does not require. I know by placing the title of 'fine art' to great design, it's putting it on a higher level (Sagmeister's work) but if his work isn't a form of self expression, and it's a form of functional communication, its design and i wouldn't be ashamed to call it Design as it needs no other title.

[myopinion2you]

All the graphic solutions designer use today to communicate is a result of long way of painters experimenting...please!!!

The designer who don't see "painting", the father of their profession are lost!!!

His my favorite designer, but do not dream that graphic designers came out this with this solution first...not way mama!!! go to back to art history...boys!!!

[myopinion2you]

Well everything he is doing is call INSTALLATION is part of FINET ART, OR PAINTING. All the graphic solutions that graphic designers use today has its roots in painting formally and conceptually speaking. Installations is a every all expression of painters who want to go beyond the squire format of a canvas...he has not created anything. YOU designer should get out of the computer and go more to the museums to see art.

[alvarez4500]

@alphonsedoinel definitely a very complex subject haha

[alphonsedoinel]

@alvarez4500

I agree, and I won't go into it. Too complex of a subject for 500 characters.

That part of the comment was more for @grahammcissac.

[alvarez4500]

@alphonsedoinel Okay I agree with you about what does should do and that a good designers is aware of these things. I also agree that other aspects of the designer can show in their work. But now you're switching gears to art, and while i agree that art can be a creative journey as well as just the final end result, i don't see where you are going with this as my initial comment was just about the fine line between art and design and relating to intent

[alphonsedoinel]

@alvarez4500, @grahammcissac

Obviously design has to function, communicate, and solve a problem before anything else. A good designer knows how to do these things. Yet, a good designer likely also has passion, creativity, and well—another side to their brain that seep into the work, whether intentional or not.

Something people seem to forget is that art doesn't just have to be a process, it can be a product.

[grahammcissac]

@alphonsedoinel

The answer is in the word itself: DE-SIGN or without signature. Design about the designer defeats the point. I don't think much about the design of a knife and fork I use every day to eat, but they are considerably more useful to me than any art work. The primary problem with design is that many designers put their own egocentric interests above society needs and consequently should consider a career in something more suited to 'expression'.

[Vladdyboy]

Design has to work, art ,however, does not.