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SUMMARY: Stefan Sagmeister\, The Happy Show
LOCATION:The Design Exchange
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/66564
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Tickets:=09=09=09$15 =E2=80=93 General
=09=09=09=09$12 - Students
=09=09=09=09$8 =E2=80=93 Seniors

Internationally renowned Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister is as celebrate=
d for his commercial work for brands like LEVI=E2=80=99s or his album cover=
s for The Rolling Stones and Talking Heads as he is for his provocative pub=
lic art installations.

The Happy Show offers visitors the experience of walking into the designer=
=E2=80=99s mind as he attempts to increase his happiness via mediation, cog=
nitive therapy, and mood-altering pharmaceuticals. =E2=80=9CI am usually ra=
ther bored with definitions,=E2=80=9D Sagmeister says. =E2=80=9CHappiness, =
however, is just such a big subject that it might be worth a try to pin it =
down.=E2=80=9D Centered around the designer=E2=80=99s ten-year exploration =
of happiness, this exhibition presents typographic investigations of a seri=
es of maxims, or rules to live by, originally culled from Sagmeister=E2=80=
=99s diary, manifested in a variety of imaginative and interactive forms.


Stefan Sagmeister The Happy Show is organized by the Institute of Contempor=
ary Art, University of Pennsylvania.

Stefan Sagmeister The Happy Show is curated by ICA=E2=80=99s former Daniel =
W. Dietrich, II Director Claudia Gould.

ICA is grateful for primary sponsorship from The Pew Center for Arts and He=
ritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. Additional funding =
has been provided by ICA=E2=80=99s Leadership Circle. We are grateful for t=
he support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Dietrich Foundation, =
Inc.; the Overseers Board for the Instistute od Contemporary Art, friends a=
nd members of ICA; and the University of Pennsylvania. General operating su=
pport provided, in part, by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. ICA receives st=
ate arts funding through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,=
 a state agency funded by the Commenwealth of Pennsylvania and the National=
 Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. ICA is also grateful to The Chod=
orow Exhibition Initiative Fund for support of the exhibition=E2=80=99s tou=
r. (as of May 1, 2012)

Presenting Sponsors:
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