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Jun 2019
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Stefan Sagmeister Takes a Yearlong Sabba...

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Stefan Sagmeister, the cheeky Austrian graphic designer, digs in to the importance of taking sabbaticals, and shares how certain things have changed for his practice since a widely watched TED Talk a decade ago. 
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