Thomas geismar biography
Tom Geismar is a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar and widely considered a pioneer of American graphic design....
Tom Geismar
American graphic designer (born 1931)
Thomas H.
Geismar (born July 15, 1931)[1] is an American graphic designer.
An interview with Tom Geismar, one of the most highly acclaimed logo designers in the industry.
Biography
Thomas H. Geismar was born on July 15, 1931, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.[2]
Geismar studied concurrently at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. He received a master's degree in graphic design from Yale University, School of Art and Architecture.[3] After school, he joined the army for two years.[4]
Geismar met Ivan Chermayeff in Yale and in 1957, they founded the firm Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar (now Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv) along with Robert Brownjohn.
Geismar has designed more than a hundred corporate identity programs and established abstract corporate symbols. The unifying element in his work is the repetition of symbols which gives new life to the form.[2][5] In 1960, he proposed a radical mark for Chase Manhattan Bank which was the r