Sagmeister: Made You Look
Another self-indulgent design monograph (practically everything we have ever designed including the bad stuff)is Stefan Sagmeister's hand-scrawled subtitle for the first book about his work,Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silver-gilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up for a wild and very personal ride through almost the entire corpus of the 39-year-old designer's work. Sagmeister once scratched words into his skin for his own lecture poster at Cranbrook, and this is the book version--sometimes enlightening, sometimes embarrassing, always self-conscious, and ultimately touching. The story is a conversation between Peter Hall's text and Sagmeister's handwritten commentary, a perfect and believable device for an absorbing dialogue. Self-indulgent asMade You Lookmay be, Sagmeister lays himself open with idealism, irony, and humor, creating one of the most moving books about design.--Juliette Cezzar--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.