Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better

In Sep­tem­ber 2008 Stefan Sagmeister’s design cult par­tic­i­pat­ing in their second Urban Play event. The public art instal­la­tion con­sisted of 250.000 euro­cents placed on the floor, cov­er­ing more than 300sqm on a square in Ams­ter­dam. The coins spelled out the sen­tence “Obses­sions make my life worse and my work better”. A com­plete descrip­tion of the project is recorded on their detailed blog full of facts, photos and video.

It’s tough to get per­spec­tive on the photos at first, but this is a birds eye view of an enor­mous open area. You can see tiny people walk­ing around and the first floor of a build­ing to the left. You can see more photos in the obses­sions Flickr group.

Thanks to the Ober­holtzer Blog for the tip.