Stefan Sagmeister | Art & Design

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Today we spoke with Stefan Sagmeister — it was a real pleasure. His newest book is called Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far.This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far, which includes statements such as “Worrying solves nothing” and “Trying to look good limits my life.” The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easily achieved. And we need constant reminders to keep us on the right path. With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in France to sign-toting inflatable monkeys on the streets of Scotland. Accompanied by essays from design historian Steven Heller, Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector, and UK psychologist Daniel Nettle, as well as Sagmeister’s own words, the series is revealed as a complex blend of personal revelation, art, and design—an eclectic mix of visual audacity and sound advice Stefan is the founder of the New York based Sagmeister Inc. Since 1993, he has designed branding, graphics and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. He is a five time Grammy nominee and actually won a Grammy for the Talking Heads boxed set. Stefan has won practically every important international design award. In 2001 a best selling monograph about his work Sagmeister, Made you Look was published by Booth-Clibborn editions. Solo shows on Sagmeister Inc’s work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne and Seoul. He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Stefan lectures regularly all over the world. http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/

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Steven Wax | Kafka, Justice & Terror

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Through the gripping inside-stories of two of the most highly publicized terrorism cases of the 21st century, KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE IN THE WAR ON TERROR (Other Press; June 3, 2008) by Steven Wax shines a spotlight on one of the most critical issues faced by Americans today. This is the saga of one public defender’s struggle to rescue two innocent men from the often absurd practices of our judicial system – a system now tainted by the loss of our civil liberties in the name of the war on terror. It presents the well-known true story of Brandon Mayfield, an American-born lawyer and family man living in Oregon, who was mistakenly arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid bombings because of an incorrectly identified fingerprint. It also describes the lesser-known story of Adel Hamad, a Sudanese Hospital administrator, who was taken from his apartment in Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as part of an anti-Arab sweep intended to satisfy the American government’s new security initiatives. Together, these stories present a clear and immediate picture that everyone’s rights are in jeopardy in the war on terror. A patriotic American and strong believer in our judicial system, Wax has served twenty-five years as a federal public defender. As a result, he is well positioned to present a sharp picture of both how we’ve come to lose our civil liberties and how we must all fight for our constitutional rights. http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=540

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Olof A. Ericksen | Immigrant Memoir

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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As a child in Norway, Olof A. Ericksen lived through the atrocities of World War II, then suffered a brutal upbringing. As an adult, he was a victim of numerous unscrupulous business dealings in America, and eleven times in his life he came face-to-face with death. Memoirs of an Immigrant is a true story that takes readers from the Land of the Midnight Sun to America and from World War II to today, as it shows one man’s ability to rise above impossible circumstances to build a victorious life. http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Immigrant-Olof-Eriksen/dp/1432710141

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Cindi Myers | Soldier & Romance

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Cindi believes in writing fun, sexy romances about people she hopes readers will fall in love with. She sold her first novel in 1997 and writing as Cynthia Sterling, she wrote seven historical romances for Berkley and Kensington before turning to contemporary fiction. Almost half a million copies of Cindi’s books have been published around the world. Her books have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, and Greek. http://www.cindimyers.com/

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