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Tom Geismar

Graphic Designer
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv
New York, New York, United States
tomgeismar.com
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Status

Winner

Award Category

Lifetime Achievement

Year

2014

Focus

Branding, Graphic Design, Exhibition Design

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About Tom Geismar

Tom Geismar is a graphic designer and a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, a leading graphic design firm in the fields of corporate identity, brand development and logo design. During the past five decades he has designed more than a hundred corporate identity programs. His designs for Xerox, Chas… Read More
Tom Geismar is a graphic designer and a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, a leading graphic design firm in the fields of corporate identity, brand development and logo design. During the past five decades he has designed more than a hundred corporate identity programs. His designs for Xerox, Chase Manhattan Bank, Best Products, Gemini Consulting, PBS, Univision, Rockefeller Center and, most notably, Mobil Oil have received worldwide acclaim. Tom has also had major responsibility for many of the firm’s exhibition designs and world’s fair pavilions. His projects include such major tourist attractions as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Statue of Liberty Museum, the Truman Presidential Library, and the redesigned Star-Spangled Banner exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He has received all the major awards in the field, including one of the first Presidential Design Awards for helping to establish a national system of standardized transportation symbols.

Tom Geismar concurrently attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown, he received a master’s degree in graphic design from Yale University, School of Art and Architecture. Read Less
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  • Chase
    by Tom Geismar
    226
    3604
    Branding, Graphic Design, Icon Design
  • New York University
    by Tom Geismar
    150
    2527
    Branding, Graphic Design, Icon Design
  • Public Broadcasting Service
    by Tom Geismar
    208
    2239
    Branding, Graphic Design, Icon Design
  • Library of Congress
    by Tom Geismar
    29
    694
    Exhibition Design
  • Aquariums
    by Tom Geismar
    64
    1047
    Branding
  • Mobil
    by Tom Geismar
    273
    3691
    Branding, Graphic Design, Icon Design
  • National Geographic
    by Tom Geismar
    193
    2879
    Branding
  • Posters
    by Tom Geismar
    75
    2277
    Graphic Design
  • Statue of Liberty Museum
    by Tom Geismar
    20
    695
    Exhibition Design
  • Expo'70 Osaka
    by Tom Geismar
    46
    1783
    Exhibition Design
  • Ellis Island
    by Tom Geismar
    26
    652
    Exhibition Design
  • The Mill
    by Tom Geismar
    54
    1255
    Exhibition Design
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