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New Work: Grant Thornton
Angus Hyland and his team have designed the new identity system for Grant Thornton international, a major global organisation of accounting and consulting firms with member and correspondent firms in over 100 countries worldwide.
The identity creates a unified international brand for the organisation’s network of independently owned and managed firms. Hyland has created a completely new logo, along with comprehensive print and website systems based around a bold illustration-led graphic approach.
Giants Win Super Bowl at Arizona Cardinals Stadium
Although our true loyalties lie with their crosstown rivals, Pentagram’s New York office was cheering on the New York Giants in their victory against the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLII. The game was the first Super Bowl to be played at the NFL’s newest stadium (now named University of Phoenix Stadium), opened in 2006 and for which Michael Gericke designed the environmental graphics and James Biber the interiors program. The structure was named by BusinessWeek magazine to be one of the most innovative sporting structures in the world and will be the home of future Super Bowls. Gericke was in attendance at the game, as was associate Don Bilodeau.
Snapshots from the event and a peek at a permanent tribute by Pentagram after the jump.
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Unbeige Visits Arizona Cardinals Stadium
Steve Delahoyde of Unbeige checks out our environmental graphics for Cardinals Stadium during a trip home to Glendale, AZ.
Sign of the Times
Pentagram-designed New York Times sign recently installed on the paper’s new headquarters.
Last week, the Times Square district gained its latest sign as the logo of the New York Times was installed on the Eighth Avenue facade of its new Renzo Piano-designed headquarters tower.
But what looks like a simple sign—if a 110-foot-long logo set as a 10,116-point version of the newspaper’s iconic Fraktur font can be called simple—is actually an intricate assemblage of nearly a thousand separate custom-designed pieces, each a painted extruded aluminum sleeve a little more than three inches in diameter.
The story of how and why Pentagram came to design the sign after the jump.
New Work: Yorkville Common Pantry
Peter Arkle’s charming drawings grace the walls of the pantry.
Michael Bierut and Josh Berta have designed the environmental graphics for the Yorkville Common Pantry, a New York soup kitchen sponsored in part by the Robin Hood Foundation that opens tonight. The project features a collection of 120 framed drawings by illustrator Peter Arkle on permanent display. The pantry, located at 8 East 109th Street in Manhattan, is the city’s largest, nonsectarian, neighborhood-based provider of emergency food.
A gallery of Arkle’s illustrations for the project after the jump.
New Work: Seattle Art Museum
The new SAM identity designed by Pentagram.
Abbott Miller and his team have designed the new identity and program of environmental graphics for the Seattle Art Museum that reopens to the public this weekend after a 95,000 square foot expansion designed by Allied Works Architecture. The identity helps to integrate the expansion into the existing building designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and the museum with its two sister locations in the city.
Arizona Cardinals Stadium Opens
The Cardinals’ new home in Glendale, AZ
The new Cardinals Stadium opens this weekend with environmental graphics and interiors by Pentagram. Michael Gericke and his team (in collaboration with Entro) designed the building’s overall graphic program, including identification, wayfinding, large-scale thematic elements, sponsor graphics, scoreboards and end zone treatments. Jim Biber and his team designed interiors for the locker rooms, club lounges, corporate lofts, and AZone team store. The stadium was designed by Peter Eisenman and HOK Sport. The first preseason game—the Cardinals play the Steelers—is tomorrow; the regular season begins on September 10.
Updates: Press conference with the designers, including Michael Gericke. The new stadium scores with fans: AP wire. Red is the color for Unbeige.
First pics after the jump.
New Work: 7 WTC
Michael Gericke and his team have designed the identity, environmental graphics and marketing materials for 7 World Trade Center, the first new tower to be constructed at ground zero in Lower Manhattan. The 52-story, parallelogram-shaped building was developed by Silverstein Properties and designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It officially opened yesterday.
Sales book after the jump; signage images coming soon.
New Work: The Morgan Library & Museum
Identity on glass at the new Madison Ave. entrance
Michael Bierut and his team have designed the identity, exhibition graphics and signage for the renamed Morgan Library & Museum, the New York institution that reopens tomorrow with a dramatic expansion by celebrated architect Renzo Piano. The new identity utilizes a single font called Dante, a serif typeface that is customarily used for books.
More images coming soon. Complete press release at the jump.
Update: The Morgan identity is noted on Unbeige.
New Work: Halle F
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Justus Oehler and his team have designed the identity and wayfinding signage for Halle F, a new 2,000-seat concert hall at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna.
More images after the jump.
New Work: Building the Times
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On-scene reportage: Michael Bierut and his team designed the massive installation of photos by Annie Leibovitz that documents the construction of the new New York Times Building at 41st St. and 8th Ave. The hoarding incorporates 83 photos, the largest reproduced at a whopping 14 feet by 21 feet. The team also developed the accompanying website.
More images after the jump.
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