{"id":715,"date":"2008-05-20T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/archives\/2008\/05\/20\/stefan-sagmeister-yes-design-can-make-you-happy.html"},"modified":"2008-05-20T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:38:59","slug":"stefan-sagmeister-yes-design-can-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/stefan-sagmeister-yes-design-can-make-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Sagmeister: Yes, design can make you happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a phone call from home that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagmeister.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sagmeister\">Stefan<\/a> got elected one of the ten best designers worldwide, wow! Those who pass by here on a regular basis know that I love to drop by at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/50\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TED\">TED talks<\/a>, so I just did and I found Stefan talking there. It is a good occasion to post his talk, I think. The Sagmeister and our family have always been close. Stefan is the youngest Sagmeister son, and I am 7 years older, I have always been out with the older guys, of course ;-)&#8230; For those who don&#8217;t know who the heck this guy is: Stefan was born in Bregenz, Austria in 1962. Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, New York City-dwelling designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things, quoted from the TED page.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" align=\"center\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VE_Player\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"432\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"285\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"center\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/STEFANSAGMEISTER-2004_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" align=\"center\" flashvars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/STEFANSAGMEISTER-2004_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a phone call from home that Stefan got elected one of the ten best designers worldwide, wow! Those who pass by here on a regular basis know that I love to drop by at TED talks, so I just did and I found Stefan talking there. It is a good occasion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[179,180,177,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}