5.05.13
Nothing like spending a Sunday afternoon hanging out with Jessica Walsh. She happened to be in town (oh..yknow, just being one the headlining speakers for the Adobe Max conference at the LA Convention Center) and so I thought I’d ask to see if she’d want to see the Happy Show at the MOCA.
Next thing I knew, Jessica said Stefan Sagmeister had texted her telling her to get everyone to strip. I turned around and the guys had taken their clothes off. Ironically security didn’t think anything of it, but then told my friends to not lean against the wall when they wanted a picture by the outlet.
Oh, and Stefan got a huge kick of the picture.
The shenanigans and process of a
Designer//Illustrator//Creative Enthusiast
Things I am fond of: puppies, vanilla chai lattes, used book stores, Stefan Sagmeister, crafts, typography, AIGA, and hugs.
I aim for the impossible while enjoying the simple things in life.
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The Happy Show! 3.19.13
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The Happy Show! 3.19.13
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Karlssonwilker said I could swing by their studio next Friday in which I will be meeting Jessica Walsh as well.
PFT. If anyone is a huge fan of Sagmeister, you would know who Karlssonwilker is. It’s the design team of Hjalti and Jan whom were former design proteges of Stefan Sagmeister’s. Holy crap. I get to meet the dream team that’s worked with my hero. OMG.
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Saw this picture floating around. That silhouette is me face to face with Stefan Sagmeister live via Skype. It’s still one of the coolest things I have ever accomplished. <3 Photo by Betty Ko.
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On behalf of the AIGA AiOC Student Chapter, we are eager to announce that Jessica Walsh is Skyping with us in November!
Jessica Walsh is a graduate of RISD and immediately moved on to work for Pentagram and as an art director for Print magazine before arriving at Sagmeister Inc. in 2010. Recently, Sagmeister Inc. announced that they renamed the company to Sagmeister & Walsh.
I couldn’t be more excited with her generosity of willing to speak with us at the meteoric rise of her design career. It’s inspirational that this 25 years old has accomplished so much —is now a partner at Sagmeister & Walsh and remains as humble as ever. Her work is very admirable and definitely worth checking out at jessicawalsh.com. Even though it’s six months away…THINK ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN!! :)
The last time I worked on the campaign for the Quarter of Two Stefans, well, we ended up getting two Gold and silver Addys for them! I’m planning to make this last AIGA project of mine bigger and badder than ever. It’s my way of leaving making my last mark before I graduate. -
OC Addys 2012
Me:Hi Stefan!
Last night was the OC Addys awards and I am elated to announce that I received 3/3 Gold Addys for student entries. Two of which that I’m the most proud of are the poster campaigns that I art directed for your Skype event and Stefan G. Bucher’s in person event.
They etched your name onto my award! :) I can’t believe it! Ahhh, I just wanted to share my excitement with you.
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Excellent, Linda, congratulations! Well deserved too!
1000 greetings,
StefanSagmeister Inc.
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And the Mission Continues…
I set out a goal in December of 2010 to contact Stefan Sagmeister, my ultimate graphic design hero. I wanted to let him know just how much he was a huge inspiration to me and I wanted to get him to speak with our design students and AIGA club. He said he was too busy in 2010 and for also for the rest of 2011.
By November 2011, I had made him a gift, followed up with him and asked him again if he’d speak with us come 2012. I will never forget reading his response that I’ve talked him into it and he agreed to it.
A few days I ago, I came face to face over skype with Stefan Sagmeister. I listened to him speak about his new work, give advice to students, as well as answered questions I’ve always wondered about when reading his books. That was one goal I almost never dreamed of coming true.
Over the last hour or so, I’ve been doing much research into finding the perfect thank you gift for him. I’ve asked a designer that works with him what he might enjoy, and she gave me some options. I sent out an email request to a local shop to ask for their quote including if they would walk down the street to the studio to deliver fresh macaroons.
I’ve met that one goal in getting Sagmeister to be familiar with me. Now I’m aiming towards a spot in being his intern in his studio out there in New York. I need to get my foot in that door and if it takes me so many follow-ups, you bet I will make it happen. I will spend the rest of the time from now until that opportunity comes knocking to better my craft and gain skills to make myself a contribution to his work. I am determined.
New York, New York, I will see you soon. -
1.25.12: Skype with Stefan Sagmeister
A sea of at least 100 people probably lined the hallways before 2:30pm yesterday. I barely got to stick my head out the door and the all of these people had showed up at least 30 minutes early, hoping to get seats as close as possible to the main screen where Sagmeister sees everyone.
This whole event was not possible without each and every single person’s involvement. An hour before we went live: I was pacing back and forth trying to remember the order of what I had to present for my process and then I heard Skype go off. I looked at the screen and it announced that Sagmeister had signed on. It sunk in, and I remembered almost being so happy that I got emotional and was an inch from letting the water works go.
I looked around and saw how much effort was put into this event. The AIGA board members were gathering chairs to fit more seats into the room, double checking that every room was good to go, entertaining the crowd waiting outside, putting up signs, IT was working on hooking all the technology up, the student affairs department was setting up a section to help sell refreshments…
We easily had over 150+ people in attendance from all three rooms we hooked up. It was all so surreal when I got up in front of the audience and saw the AIGA advisors, our academic director, instructors who I had personally invited to be a part of this event, our AIGA board members who had seats next to me to “save” me in case I was too flabbergasted to carry on a conversation with Sagmeister, my wonderful non-designer cousin who was the closest thing to family and knew what a big event this was for me, and the sea of people who filled the entire room were all smiling back at me.
I got to present my process into how we arrived at this event and it was perfect timing to call Sagmeister as I sat down.
I got to see Sagmeister live on the screen. He was such a charming gentlemen and with a big smile on his face. We spent about half an hour before trying to get the audio to work correctly, so up until that point he had only seen a room of like, 4 people standing around the monitor. When we went live at 3pm, Sagmeister smiled and said, “Wow! You are many now!” That pretty much set the stage for a candid, informative, and highly inspirational talk with him.
If there’s something I remembered back in December of 2010, it was how much I felt my perspective changedon how I made work: whether it was graphic design related or not, it had to have more meaning than something that looks cool. I have to find a way to, “Touch someone’s heart with art and design.” Sagmeister did just that for me, and it’s all true. He is such a wonderfully nice and generous human being, with an incredible list of accolades in his portfolio. Like one of our AIGA advisors said, “Stefan Sagmeister is like the Steven Spielberg of graphic design.”
Stefan Sagmeister’s skype event was even better than I could have EVER imagined. Just like I’ve read in his books, he has confidence in knowing what he knows, isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind, and has lived an incredibly affluent life in context to the diverse amount of things he has encountered or experimented with. I’ve read in his lastest book; a commentary about how the way Sagmeister leans in towards people just to let them know that they have his full attention is almost admirable.
Sagmeister was relaxed yet attentive to us skyping with him and we ended our hour long chat just like we started: with a lot of thankfulness, big smiles and laughs, and both of us waving frantically at the webcam so show our excitement.
I will never forget this day for as long as I live. -
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