Happiness in design

May 11, 2007 at 11:50 am | Posted in Design | Leave a comment

Originally uploaded by karmagirl.
I was recently on the TED website (I am a recent convert) and saw a talk done by Stefan Sagmeister. He’s a designer (although that’s putting it lightly) and has taken it upon himself to look at what makes him happy. Particularly in design. He showed a series of images that were done by an artist called ‘True’ that we actually stickers that replaced all of those information style stickers that you always find in subways. We have them here in Sydney, and he mentioned that people don’t really pay attention to them unless they are bored. So when their eyes rested on these stickers, it took them a moment before they actually realised that they were different.

PS True is his alter-ego.