Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is awarded the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2009
The Lucky Strike Designer Award, one of the leading international design awards with prize money of 50,000 euros, goes this year to Stefan Sagmeister, a star of the international graphic design scene and a winner of the coveted Grammy Award. His successful philosophy is: Design rocks!
"His work is highly creative, bold and innovative. It combines philosophy, politics and socially relevant subjects with avantgarde design; it's democratic, and accessible to everyone" – thus the the Foundation jury.
Sagmeisters's cover designs for albums by the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Talking Heads achieved cult status. Sagmeister was nominated for a Grammy five times, and he won this coveted award in 2005 for his design of the Talking Heads CD box set "Once in a Lifetime". Stefan Sagmeister himself says: "It's a special honour for me that the Raymond Loewy Foundation has recognised my oeuvre to date with the Lucky Strike Designer Award."
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