ITAP - Jane Anderson - Design Hereos: Stefan Sagmeister & Kate Moross

Janes talk on Stefan Sagmeister & Kate Moross was one of those talks that you hear and it makes you want to do stuff. I couldn't help but get passionate in my note taking, i was inspired to get out there and make stuff with stuff just for the sake of it! I believe in those kind of talks/lectures because they have movement and action in them.

I think the reason for such a motivational talk was the two subjects  you cannot look at Sagmeister or Moross' work and not be inspired to 'do'. Their simple philosophies...

Personal work makes client work better.

- Sagmeister

"Make your own shit, just make shit."

- Moross 

...inspire you to get out there, forget about clients brief and projects and just do stuff for the fun of it, the reason you enjoy it in the first place.

Sagmeister's work is heaviy influenced by what he does in his private life. I watched his talk at one of the TED conferences and he talks solely about his personal work, his travels, his own self initiated projects and it's clear that he deems these things highly important. 

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/images/made/images/u_work/Aizone-13_1800_1114_75.jpg

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/images/made/images/u_work/Aizone10_1_1800_1114_75.jpg

These two images are from the "Art Direction & Design for Aizone, a luxury department store in the Middle East. Taking the vibrant nature of the brand and presenting it in campaigns that are printed in newspapers, magazines, and billboards throughout Lebanon."

http://kingydesignhistory2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/trying-comp1.jpg

These images are from his personal work entitled, "Things I Have Learnt In My Life So Far", you can clearly see the influence. Experimental and environmental typography is very striking and when doing the Aizone project they decided to do as much as they could in physical and not on computers for a 'next level' quality of image. Which brings me nicely onto Kate Moross who believes in 'making shit'.

Kate Moross' work has a very hands on feel to it also, she seems to have developed her style simply by making stuff, having a go and not discounting anything right from the beginning of here career.

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/7/561c23d7ff3628fb7161e810a85af9ad/l.jpg

http://payload85.cargocollective.com/1/7/237494/4015761/RIDEJOURNAL_800.jpg

These two pieces the first one from 2006 and the second from 2013 you can see how her style has progressed and improved but you can see where it has come from and how she has been on a journey. Much like Sagmeister, the work she has done in the begging (which I would imagine was in the early, fun stage of her career) has influenced her more professional work.

Both these designers are inspirational and I hold them very high up in my hero's list.