“Design and happiness” – with this motto the globally successful Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister will give a speech on the occasion of the “Design Month” festival. Sagmeister, who founded Sagmeister Inc. in New York in 1993, has worked for such prestigious clients as The Rolling Stones, the Guggenheim Museum and HBO. He has also been awarded two Grammies, and has probably won every possible design award which exists today. Sagmeister’s works have been exhibited in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka and Prague, as well as other cities. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Art in New York, and gives speeches on all continents.

The FH Joanneum Lecture Days will also bring other big names from the international design scene to Graz, and offer with their speeches an exciting cross-section of contemporary design approaches. On the program is Bart Tunnissen from the waag society of Amsterdam, as well as the artist, curator and pedagogue Mark Allen, who will bring his “Machine Project” with him from Los Angeles. Under his direction the “Machine Project” produced exhibits for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum for Contemporary Art in Denver, and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis. He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, and is currently Professor of Art at the Pomona College.

Program

Bart Tunnissen/Waag Society (Amsterdam, NL): creative research: users as designers
May 14th, 7pm, designHalle (Lazarettgürtel 62)

Mark Allen/Machine Project (Los Angeles, U.S.A.): Event as site - theory and practice of curating programming
May 15th, 7pm, designHalle (Lazarettgürtel 62)

The manual – presentation of the new publication of the Information Design course of studies
May 17th, 6.30pm, Schlossberg-Kasematten

Stefan Sagmeister (New York, U.S.A.): Design and Happiness
May 17th, 7pm, Schlossberg-Kasematten
Entry: € 15,-
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please touch this - cross media projects of the Media & Interaction Design 2011 Master’s course of studies of the FH Joanneum Graz
May 14th till 27th, designHalle (Lazarettgürtel 62)