Name: 【TED】Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off (Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off)
Uploaded: 2016-07-27T22:36:35.000Z
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Every seven years, I close it for one year

I originally had opened the studio in New York

to combine my two loves, music and design.

and for even more that you've never heard of.

As I realized, just like with many many things in my life

You see here a glass eye in a die cut of a book.

Quite the similar idea, then, a perfume packaged

So I decided to close it down for one year.

in the first 25 years of our lives learning,

to basically cut off five of those retirement years

and intersperse them in between those working years.

that the work that comes out of these years

rather than just benefiting a grandchild or two.

There is a fellow TEDster who spoke two years ago,

who defined his work into three different levels.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money.

I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays.

And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism.

But at the same time, there will be periods when I think

is all that really hard work really worth my while?

if I wouldn't be financially compensated for it.

I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City.

Looked for something different for the second one.

Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing

because I knew them too well. So Asia it was.

The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia

Sri Lanka still had the civil war going on, so Bali it was.

It's a wonderful, very craft-oriented society.

and pretty much started to work right away.

There is wonderful inspiration coming from the area itself.

However the first thing that I needed was

because they were definitely around heavily.

to be able to get back to all the wild dogs

So we created this series of 99 portraits on tee shirts.

with a just ever so slightly menacing message

I decided I could actually renovate my studio.

And all the stuff I could afford, I didn't like.

So one of the things that we pursued in Bali

This one, of course, still works with the wild dogs.

And I think by the time this lamp came about,

I had finally made peace with those dogs.

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【TED】Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off (Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off)

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