Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far

When I was researching other self promotional and personal books for my own book project I came across this project by Stefan Sagmeister. He has produced a book named "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far" which contains 15 sub booklets, each with 1 thing he has learnt about his life. For a good preview of the book, click on this link...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m1TK0

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One of the pieces he created for the series was using the sentence: "Obsessions make my life worse and my work better".

In September 2008 he took to the streets of a square in Amsterdam with 250,000 euro cent coins sorted into 4 different colours. Over 8 days a team constructed the piece covering over 800 square metres. Here are some pictures showing the process of making the piece...

And here is the final piece:

A truly amazing piece of typography. I love the depths and tones that have been created from using the 4 different shades. After the piece was completed it was left for the public to interact with. However just 20 hours after completion, it had completely disappeared. The police had been called after someone had been bagging up the coins, and decided to remove the whole piece to "protect" it. I know that if I had spent 8 days creating this amazing piece, I would be devastated to see it gone so fast!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

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http://sagmeister.com/urbanplay/

http://thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwILTvYUHX8&feature=player_embedded