

However, a few of them in particular caught my attention and relate very well to my research into happiness. Nearly all of them relate back to happiness as they are to do with the way you live your life and happiness is essentially the end goal in everything we do.

Or maybe you never even knew you knew them. The 20 statements are simple yet instantly strike anyone who reads them as being true – those things that you always knew, but you didn’t have the right words for. It is a fascinating book both from a typographic and design point of view, but also from a contemplative, educating one. This book, Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, collates 20 maxims (possibly more) in their final visual forms.

He found the list he had made, titled Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far and decided to use these maxims, which he found straightforward and honest, to fulfill following job requests he was given. Faced with blank canvases – no brief and no boundaries, Sagmeister returned to his diary from his year out in order to find inspiration. When the studio reopened a year later they began to receive commissions with far more freedom attached than before. Sagmeister took a year out from commercial work in 2000 to investigate how his work would change with no outside briefs or deadlines attached.
