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Cops coin it on Sagmeister

Posted on November 1st 2008

Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September.


Dutch police confiscated Stefan Sagmeister’s installation for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam during September. Made from 300 000 eurocent coins in four shades of copper, the text field took 150 volunteers three days to layout. Local residents alerted the police after they noticed people sweeping up the coins. The police themselves then collected the coins to prevent the artwork from being stolen. “We knew that somebody would do something like rearrange the coins or take them away, but we didn’t expect the police to take them away,” explained a Droog spokeswoman.

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. Having been nominated five times for the Grammies he finally won one for the Talking Heads boxed set.

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