Founded in 1972 by three graphic designers, an industrial designer and an architect, Pentagram was soon acknowledged as one of the world's leading design companies with a reputation for ideas, craft, professionalism and wit. Over three decades, the variety and quality of Pentagram's works have earned the admiration of the clients, the design industry itself and the public at large.
Pentagram has provided a range of design services to the following colleges and universities:
- University of Southern California
- University of Michigan
- Princeton University
- Georgetown University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Loyola Marymount University, LMU
- University of the Pacific
- The Art Center College of Design
Pentagram is organized around nineteen partners with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin, employing a total of 220 people. The partners are all practicing designers, recognized in their particular fields. They work independently or collaboratively according to a client's needs, with a single lead partner always in overall control. Pentagram offers an efficient and broad range of design services to both local and international clients of all sizes. All clients, large and small, benefit equally from the full weight of Pentagram's experience and resources. Milestones and high-profile projects over this time include a range of businesses. A small client sampling include:
Amazon, American Ballet Theater, American Folk Art Museum, American Institute of Graphic Arts, American Museum of Natural History, Apple Computer Inc., AT&T Wireless Services, Boudin Bakery, Bausch & Lomb, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), CBS Sports / Winter Olympic Games, CNET, Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Disney, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Four Seasons Hotels, Gymboree, Hewlett Packard, IBM, J P Morgan, James Irvine Foundation, KQED, L.L. Bean, Lands' End, Larkin Street, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Metropolis Magazine, Minnesota Children's Museum, Motorola, Museum of Glass, National Audubon Society, The Nature Company, Nissan Motor Company, Nikon, The Public Theater, Polaroid, Potlatch, Reuters, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, SC Johnson, Sierra Club, Symantec, San Francisco Zoo, Samsung, Schick, Sony Music, Sun Microsystems, Sur La Table, Swatch, Toshiba, United Airlines, United Parcel Service, University of Southern California, Verizon, Wal-Mart, Whirlpool, Whitney Museum of American Art, and many others.
Pentagram Team Members for UCR Project:
Kit Hinrichs, Partner, Creative Director, San Francisco (UCR Project Leader)
Kit Hinrichs studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. His accumulated design experience incorporates a wide range of projects. He leads a graphic design team with expertise in branding corporate communications, promotion, packaging, editorial and exhibition design. He has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Design Conference, AIGA National Conferences, and numerous other design associations and Universities across the globe. Several of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, and the Library of Congress.
During his career, he founded @Issue: The Journal of Business and Design, was chairman of the AIGA California Show (the first regional show in AIGA's 85 year history), co-chaired the Alliance Graphique Internationale San Francisco Congress, and chaired the AIGA Business Conference and Design Lecture Series. Kit was recently the recipient of the distinguished AIGA medal in recognition of his exceptional achievements in the field of graphic design and visual communication.