Stefan Sagmeister: Finding Happiness

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🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Happy to play the role of provocateur and prankster, Stefan Sagmeister has famously pushed the boundaries of design. Stefan’s legend stems from the fact his work is so closely linked to his personal searchings and strivings. His impressive client roster includes names like The Rolling Stones, Target, Talking Heads, HBO, Time Warner and the Guggenheim, and he’s won two Grammy awards, an AIGA Medal and practically every important international design award.

Stefan’s exhibitions have been mounted in museums around the world, including his latest project: The Happy Show (which is both an exhibit and a film). The exhibit has already attracted way over a quarter of a million visitors worldwide and became the most visited graphic design show in history. Of course we get into this at the top of the show, and we also dive into:

Work/Life balance … In fact, he takes a sabbatical every 7 years.
We explore the idea of being different, which is a thing that I think a lot of creatives struggle with.
We also talk about ways to develop new ideas borrowed from Edward De Bono and we do a fun little exercise that you can use too.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, I'm Chase Jarvis and welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis
0:08.1	Live show here on Creative Live.
0:10.1	This is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders
0:14.6	and do my damnedest to unpack actionable and valuable insights that will help you live your
0:19.0	dreams in career, in hobby, and in
0:21.8	life. My guest today is one of literally, and I hate when people use that wrong, I'm using it right
0:29.7	here as in literally one of the top designers on the planet, Mr. Stefan Sagmeister. Now, Sagmeister has designed for, first of all, a huge range
0:40.6	of clients. That's one of the things that is so impressive is his range. Folks like the Rolling
0:45.0	Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim. He's also won a grand, actually he's one, I think two Grammy
0:51.0	awards, which you're right now going like, wait a bit, isn't that reserved for musicians? Well, actually, that's one of the things that he has won a Grammy for is designing
0:59.4	album covers for music. Super, super cool stuff. He's written numerous books, and he's basically
1:05.6	this guy has won every damn design award out there. His exhibitions, he's also a fine artist. God, he's got one called
1:12.8	the Happy Show, which I think is the number one most popular graphic design installation of all
1:19.8	time at a museum. He's also got a film out called the Happiness, Happiness Project, I think,
1:25.2	happiness show, also of the same name, roughly.
1:28.3	And that was an amazing film that was launched at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.
1:32.5	We also talk about work-life balance.
1:35.5	I'm not shy about bringing you all along on my adventures on Snapchat and all the social
1:41.0	worlds about working really, really hard, playing hard.
1:44.3	And one of the things that I get asked a lot is about, like, oh, how do you balance your work in your life?
1:48.2	Well, Sagmeister has this down.
1:50.2	And basically, he wrote the book about this, not this is not literally, this is conceptually.
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