# Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Film: A Pitchbook - Novelty

by **Stefan Sagmeister** (Contribution by), **Claudia Gould** (Contribution by)

**An artist's attempts at achieving personal happiness, from meditation to pharmaceuticals**

Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. _The Happy Film Pitch Book_ both documents Sagmeister's touring exhibition, _The Happy Show_, and anticipates his ongoing feature length film, _The Happy Film_. In both projects, Sagmeister undergoes a series of self-experiments (each experiment lasting three months)--with meditation, cognitive therapy, and mood-altering pharmaceuticals--attempting to improve his personal happiness. I am usually rather bored with definitions," Sagmeister says. "Happiness, however, is just such a big subject that it might be worth a try to pin it down." _The Happy Show_, Sagmeister's first museum show in the United States, documents his adventures in video, print, infographics, sculpture and interactive installations, most of which were custom-made for this exhibition. Here, Sagmeister offers his own witty and poignant thoughts and reasons for his ten-year exploration of happiness. Throughout the book, Sagmeister's trademark maxims serve as access points to a larger exploration of happiness, its cultural significance, our constant pursuit of it and its notoriously ephemeral nature.

**Number of Pages:** 244

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 3.7 x 2.5 IN

**Publication Date:** April 30, 2013

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