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The new edi­ti­on con­tains three addi­tio­nal signa­tures (48 pages) covering new works, such as the Dietch Gal­le­ry exhi­bi­ti­on in SOHO that coin­ci­ded with the book’s ope­ning and The Hap­py Film, a docu­men­ta­ry that Ste­fan is laun­ching next autumn. Helping other people helps meHaving guts always works out for meThinking that life will be better in the future is stupidOrganising a charity group is surprisingly easyBeing not truthful. To this end, noted desi­gner Ste­ven Hel­ler, art cri­tic and cura­tor Nan­cy Spec­tor and psy­cho­lo­gist and Hap­pi­ness: The Sci­ence Behind Your Smi­le aut­hor Dani­el Nett­le con­tri­bu­te essays to the book. In 2006, Stefan Sagmeister published Things I have learned in my life so far, a book born from a running list he keeps in his diary. Taken tog­e­ther, the collec­tion is part design pro­ject, part work of art, part exami­na­ti­on of the pur­su­it of hap­pi­ness.

The pro­jects in this book began as a list Ste­fan Sag­meis­ter found in his dia­ry under the tit­le “Things I have lear­ned in my life so far.” Given an incredi­ble amount of free­dom by some of his cli­ents, he began trans­forming the­se apho­risms into typo­gra­phic works they have sin­ce appeared as French and Por­tu­gue­se bill­boards, a Japa­ne­se annu­al report, on Ger­man tele­vi­si­on, in an Aus­tri­an maga­zi­ne, as a New York direct mai­ler and as an Ame­ri­can pos­ter campaign.