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Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, Bob Gill, and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin. ==History== Pentagram was founded on the premise of collaborative interdisciplinary designers working together in an independently owned firm of equals. Theo Crosby claimed the structure was suggested to him by his experience of working on the seminal late-1950s exhibition This is Tomorrow: "it was my first experience at a loose, horizontal organisation of equals. We have brought it ... to a kind of practical and efficient reality at Pentagram".〔Theo Crosby, "The Painter as Designer", ''Edward Wright graphic work and painting'', Arts Council, 1985, pp.49-50〕 The firm currently comprises 19 partner-designers in 5 cities, each managing a team of designers and sharing in common overhead and staff resources. The partners in each office share incomes equally and all the partners own an equal portion of the total firm. This equality, along with the tradition of periodically inviting new members to join, renews the firm while giving even the newest members an equal footing with the partners of long standing. This 'flat' organization (there are no executive officers, CEO, CFO or board, other than the entire group) along with the self-capitalized finances of the business, allows equal participation and control of the group's destiny by the members. In 1978 Colin Forbes formed the New York office, eventually adding both graphic designers Peter Harrison and Woody Pirtle as partners. In 1990-91 Michael Bierut, Paula Scher, graphic designers and James Biber an architect, joined the New York office and eventually moved to a building at 204 Fifth Avenue, a building designed by C.P.H. Gilbert, where the office still resides. Now in the New York office there are eight partners including Bierut, Scher, Michael Gericke, Abbott Miller, Luke Hayman, Emily Oberman, Natasha Jen and Eddie Opara.〔("Pentagram's Newest Partner is Eddie Opara" ) on CoDesign. Accessed: 2010-11-18〕 In London, all the founding partners, along with David Hillman and John McConnell have departed, leaving a second and third generation of partners working in the Needham Road office. John Rushworth, Daniel Weil (an industrial designer), Angus Hyland, Justus Oehler (running the Berlin branch), Harry Pearce, Domenic Lippa, Naresh Ramchandani and Marina Willer 〔(Marina Willer joins Pentagram )〕 along with architect William Russell now comprise the London office. In Austin, DJ Stout runs a single partner office. Architect Lorenzo Apicella runs a single partner office in San Francisco that focuses on the design of architecture, interiors and exhibitions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pentagram (design studio)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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