Stefan Sagmeister is a Graphic deisgner born in Austria, he is now at the age of 52 living in New York City after he moved that almost 20 years ago. He then created a company called Sagmeister & Walsh, http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/. The companies website states on its home page '3rd world offices, 1st world prices'.
Sagmeister's most famous work which I have been using within my Graphics brief currently, was his art work for Lou Reed. In which he designed his album cover with Lou's face and many words written across his face, his most shocking piece of work is linked into this image as well which is, of his own body used for the film 'The Happy Film' in which he designed his body with many words in different sizes, different layouts, different script.
I feel that his work has influenced me with the way he designs on bodies, as I can link that into my city in flux brief. I am wanting to study the mental health issues within a town centre, and feel that I could design the face and body images, with the help of adobe and my tutors I would be able to show different forms of mental health on different people and be able to showcase it in a hard hitting way.
I then found this video on a website called,
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design?language=en
in which Stefan discusses his life and the things he has done that have made him happy. It is a long video but well worth the watch.