Made You Look
by Stefan Sagmeister
appears in Design, Design, and Art.
Another selfindulgent design monograph (practically everything we have ever designed including the bad stuff) is Stefan Sagmeister's handscrawled subtitle for the first book about his work, Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silvergilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up...
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