Identify

You'll Love This Book If:

• You want to learn about the minds behind some of the most recognizable brand identities in the world
• You work in identity and branding design
• You think you could benefit from learning the process used by one of the most successful firms in the business

The NBC peacock. Chase Bank's blue octagon. Mobil Oil's arresting red 'o'. PBS's poetic silhouettes of the everyman. Though Chermayeff & Geismar may not be a household name, its logos are pervasive in every corner of the world. (One identity – the official logo for the U.S. Bicentennial – even sits on Mars). The firm's visual identities are an integral part of American culture, and instantly recognizable by countless millions.

Authored by legendary designers Tom Geismar and Ivan Chermayeff, and their partner, rising star Sagi Haviv (called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker) Identify is the ultimate authoritative examination of the process, approach, and principles that result, time and time again, in identity design with the potential to become iconic, and thus succeed in representing a brand in the mind of the public for generations.

In Identify You'll Find:

• Behind-the-scenes essays by the designers
• Over 300 full-color images
• Never-before-seen early hand-drawn sketches of marks that went on to make history
• And so much more!

In Identify Haviv, Geismar and Chermayeff open their studio up for the first time in the firm's 55-year history and reveal the inner workings of the production of 40 of the firm's world famous trademarks, from the oldest (Chase Bank and Mobil Oil in the 1960s) to the more recent (Armani Exchange and Library of Congress in the 2000s).

A showcase of the world's most famous trademarks; a first-time reveal of how they came to be; an examination of successful logo design written by the practitioners themselves; and an unprecedented industry insider's peek into a legendary branding and graphic design firm, Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar unveils the true identity of identity design that works.