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'Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far'

Cover, "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far"
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Image from "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far"
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Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, by Stefan Sagmeister, paperback, 246 pages, 9.5 x 7 x 1.1 inches, 1.9 pounds, Abrams, list price: $40.00

This tour de force should come with a warning label: Designers Of Faint Heart Or Shakey Confidence Shall Not Enter. But if you don't, you'll be denied a visual experience and a display of intellectual and graphic precocity so transcendently weird, it will make you giddy. The book's many amazing moving parts (15 individual booklets are included, each devoted to one of Sagmeister's sloganlike "life lessons") can't be given justice here. But the 46-year-old Austrian heir-apparent to contemporary design god Tibor Kalman has stamped his face on the cover — and his genius on every page.

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