We started working on this project 7 years ago, with the idea that it would take 18 months. In the 84 months it took to complete this small film, it attracted every possible catastrophe I could imagine, including the death of our co-director. Working on The Happy Film made me profoundly unhappy. Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer & Director of The Happy Film
Renowned Austrian Graphic Designer, Stefan Sagmeister, turned himself into a design project to see if it was possible to redesign his personality to become a better version of himself and ultimately, a happier one.
With social psychologist Jonathan Haidt as his advisor, author of “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, Sagmeister conducted three controlled experiments grading himself on a sort of happiness gauge, while partaking in a Health Meditation Technique, Cognitive Appraisal Therapy and Psycho-pharmacological Drugs. His personal life, his work life and the journey of both was meticulously and beautifully documented in The Happy Film.
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