midcentury modern corporate identity
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Midcentury Modern Corporate Identity. Otl Aicher designed the icon set and way finding system for the 1972 Munich Olympics. Aicher and Max Bill and Anton Stankowsi distinguished their approach to design by an emphasis on semiotic theory. Corporate identity systems. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Midcentury ModernCorporate Identity
Otl Aicher designed the icon set and way finding system for the 1972 Munich Olympics. Aicher and Max Bill and Anton Stankowsi distinguished their approach to design by an emphasis on semiotic theory.
Lester Beall (top left)Paul Rand (middle and top right)
William Golden (bottom)
Identity Systems
Corporate identity systemsEuropean design aesthetics and a desire for an efficient, updatedlook to international corporations led to a move towards corporate standardization. The International style and its useof neutral abstract geometric forms was ideally suited to the needs of international businesses. (the geometry of the circle figures prominently in logo design by creating a strong gestalt)
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Corporate identity systemsThe logotype is only one element - the “keystone” perhaps, in a systematic identity system. The success of the identity depends on how it is applied throughout the company.
Design firms are often called upon to devise the rules by which the identity is to be applied.
Textbook describes this as “the impoverished descendents of the Gesamtkunstwerk that captured so many artists’ imagination in earlierdecades”
• The logotype - which is the centerpiece for the program,
but also include:
• Corporate signature (the name)• The annual report• Corporate typeface• Packaging,• Identification on vehicles, clothing, • Signs on building• And corporate attitude
All these elements add up to something called Corporate Voice.
Elements of a corporate identification program
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Lester Beall
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Lester BeallStandards Manual including color palette, typeface, and Logotype configurations
Connecticut General
John Massey: Unimark in Chicago becomes the premiere Design company specializing in corporate identityShown here: publications for the Container Corporation of America-all done within the guidelines laid down by their corporate program
Identity SystemsGolden Age of Corporate Systems
Logotypes from some of their Corporate clients
Identity SystemsChermayeff and Geismar
Ivan Chermayerff and Tom Geismar
Mobil Oil Logo, Chermayeff and Geismar: 1965
Identity SystemsChermayeff and Geismar
Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar
NBC Corporate Signature Standards (notice how the sizes and spaces are specified)
Identity SystemsChermayeff and Geismar
NBC Corporate Signature Standards (notice how the sizes and spaces are specified)
Identity SystemsChermayeff and Geismar
NBC corporate standards
Identity SystemsChermayeff and Geismar
Paul Rand
Identity systems for IBM, abc, Westinghouse,
UPS, Morningstar, Next, and Enron
His explanations of his design conceptsare famous for their succinctness and
logic.He did not like to make personal
presentations:instead he would put together a booket
thatexplained the rationale for his design
solution.
Paul Rand
Combination ofWord and image
Turns images and forms into symbols by
simplifying,juxtaposing and manipulating the context
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Rand created some of the most enduring corporate marks of our time
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Saul Bass:
Logos for ATT, Bell, Girl Scouts, etcFilm titles and graphics for:
Man with the Golden ArmExodusGood FellasCape Fear, etc
Film: directed shower scene in ‘Psycho’
Identity SystemsSaul Bass: Identity for Girl Scouts: strong figure/ground relationships.Identity Systems: Saul Bass
Bell logo, 1905 (anonymous)
Bell logo, 1969 (Bass and Yeager, Associates).
Identity Systems: Saul BassRedesign of Bell Systems Logo
Look at Quicktime video clips on the CD in the ATT folder. They show how a logo concept can be adapted to a variety of animated variations
Identity Systems: Saul BassAnimation of the ATT Logo
http://typophile.com/node/68920
Identity Systems: Saul BassAnimation of the ATT Logo
Massimo Vignelli:
Knoll furnitureNational Park ServiceInternal Revenue
ServiceNew York Subway
System
The National Park Service (using the “unigrid” by Vignelli and Associates. 1977One set of standards for hundreds of individual publications so they could be created and modified locally and still retain a consistent quality
1985 Massimo Vignelli received National Design Award
Federal Design Improvement Program: 1974
Dedicated to improving and making more consistent the design standards for the federal government. Projects included streamlining all government forms and publications. For example:
Identity Systems Massimo Vignelli
Identity Systems Massimo Vignelli
Identity Systems Massimo Vignelli Way-finding for New York Subway
and navigation systems
Important design functions that benefit from a uniform approachare way-finding, navigation and information systems.
These can vary from being purely functional,conveying objective information, such as highway signs, and railroad timetables, to systems that take on an appropriate expressive quality - such a graphics for a theme park or museum.
Way-finding systems
Lance Wyman:
Lance Wyman has specialized over a long career in designing multiculturalenvironmental graphic design. His creditsinclude:
Mexico City Olympics 1968American Museum of Natural HistoryMinnesota Zoo
Lance Wyman
Lance Wyman: His design system for the Mexico Olympics reflect graphic elements he found in Pre-Columbian Mexican art and architecture - in this case, the repetitive lines and circles. .
Lance Wyman: waytinding icons for the Museum of natural history
Lance Wyman: Minnesota Zoo - identity and wayfinding
Lance Wyman: Minnesota Zoo signage
Lance Wyman: This demonstrates the versatility of these icons - they have to work small in print and translate to enormous scale for three-D signs.
Deborah SussmanDesign coordination for the 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles
This work reflects a move to greater flexibility in design systems. She set a palette of colors, selected the typeface, graphic elements, such as stars and confetti, and then published guides as to how these elements could be combined.
Corporate identification systems
Corporate identification systems
wayfinding
How are identity and way finding systems for zoo, airports and other public spaces, similar to interactivity design issues suchas navigation in web site and multimedia design?
How does consistency help in creating an easy-to-navigateweb site? How do content-specific icons or other graphics helpthe user in finding locations and feeling at home in a museum,an airport or a web site? Are different sections within the site indicated with symbols, titles or colors?
Find examples of web sites that have interesting navigationgraphics. Collect some maps or other brochures from museums or theme parks. Visit web sites for some of these institutions and see if there are similarities in the graphics between the print and the web material.