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Design Category
Typographic design, 2004
Design firm
Sagmeister, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(2005) AIGA 365: 26

Description

I am just following this tradition with “Trying to look good limits my life.” The title of this work (and its content) is among the few things I have learned in my life so far (some of the others are: having guts always works out for me; and everything I do always comes back to me).
Broken up into five parts—Trying/to look/good/limits/my life—and displayed in sequence as typographic billboards, the message works like a sentimental greeting card left in the park.

Credits
Creative director: Stefan Sagmeister
Art director: Stefan Sagmeister
Designer: Matthias Ernstberger
Illustrators: Matthias Ernstberger, Stefan Sagmeister
Photographer: Matthias Ernstberger
Production artist: Matthias Ernstberger
Writer: Stefan Sagmeister
Printing method: Ink jet
Paper: Matte coated
Fabricator: Art Grandeur Nature
Manufacturer: Art Grandeur Nature
Typeface: Custom
Client: Art Grandeur Nature