PENTAGRAM ANNUAL REVIEW FOR 1982
Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, Peter Harrison, David Hillman, Mervyn Kurlansky, and John McConnell [Partners]
PENTAGRAM ANNUAL REVIEW FOR 1982. New York and London: Pentagram, [1983]. Original edition. Sim quarto. Plain saddle-stitched red wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 20 pp. 8 pages in color, otherwise fully illustrated in black and white. Former owners circular emboss to first page, otherwise a nearly fine copy.
8.25 x 11.75 softcover book with 20 pages serving as the official record of work undertaken by the London and New York Pentagram offices, that shows what Pentagram does best: self-promotion. Printed in England.
The clients whose work is exhibited here include some famous household names, as well as surprising and out of the way ones. The material illustrated takes in books, posters, calendars, consumer products, packaging, signs, building interiors, company identities, environmental schemes, and an extraordinary diversity of other challenges to the analytical and imaginative resources of this great international partnership.
”For mysterious reasons that can only be in part attributed to their origins as a design group, the people at Pentagram have been ableto maintain a design commitment that uniquely displays the benefits of working co-operatively.” --Milton Glaser, Designer/New York
”Much of the most exemplary work in today’s graphic field is from their hands. Their solutions have been followed or copied by many but there has never been a Pentagram style. They are designers who first of all solve the problems of their clients in a very creative and challenging way.” --Wim Crouwel, Designer/Amsterdam
”Pentagram still presents itself as a very unique formula of beautifully balanced elements, each one preserving its personality, yet contributing to the whole an unmistakable character. Highly professional, tenderly romantic, extremely empirical, they represent for me the best the English tradition offers today.” ---Massimo Vignelli, Designer/New York
”The success of this group of designers in maintaining consistently high standards of analytical and creative thinking, originality as well as of formal design, reveals rare organisational talents. Is it that the Pentagram consortium is in itself a brilliant design solution?” --Herbert Spencer, Designer/London