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Problems are a large part of your life. Problems make you uncomfortable, as if from sitting too long in a cramped space. Problems make you grumpy and put you in a lousy mood and dampen your spirit. Problems make you feel troubled, sluggish, dissociated, disinterested. And yet, you NEED them.

A Designer and His Problems will be a once-in-a-lifetime inspirational journey through one designer's typos, questionable color choices and poor font selection. A Designer and His Problems deals with the feeling that we all have from time to time: that something is wrong but we don't know quite what. Or maybe we do know, but it's too late to do anything about it. Heartwarming and refreshingly honest, Paul Sahre identifies problems in all their different forms and urges us to accept them, nurture them, caress them.

Graphic designer, illustrator, educator, author and current World Graphic Design Foosball Champion, Paul Sahre established his New York studio in 1997. Consciously maintaining a small office, Sahre has nevertheless built a large presence in American graphic design. The balance he strikes between commercial and personal projects is evident in the physical layout of his workspace: part design studio, part silkscreen lab, part classroom. In one room he designs and prints posters (some now in the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum) for various off-off Broadway theaters, while in the other room he is busy designing book covers for authors such as Rick Moody, Chuck Klosterman, Ben Marcus and Victor Pelevin. Sahre is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Op-Ed page. He is the author of Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone, 1964–, a loving look at a short-lived product of early '60s consumer optimism: affordable middle-class summer homes.
 
Sahre received his BFA and MFA in graphic design from Kent State and teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts. He is a member of Alliance Graphic International.

http://paulsahre.com