The design firm headed by Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar, and Sagi Haviv specializing in visual identity and brand design, art in architecture, motion graphics and exhibit design. Responsible for hundreds of the most famous trademarks in the world such as Mobil Oil, Chase bank, PBS, Viacom, Showtime, National Geographic, NBC, Barneys New York, Univision, Xerox, Cornell and Brown universities, Museum of Modern Art, and many more.

Sagi Haviv

Principal

Sagi Haviv is a partner and designer at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Among his numerous projects for the firm are the logo designs and identity systems for the Library of Congress, National Parks of New York Harbor, Radio Free Europe, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Conservation International and the fashion brand Armani Exchange.

Sagi designed the award-winning animation “Logomotion,” a ten-minute tribute to the firm’s famous trademarks that was not only the first animated trademark sequence of such scope, but also introduced a new approach to showcasing a firm’s portfolio. Sagi’s other motion graphics work includes the opening sequences for the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary series Carrier, and Circus, as well as the animation for the closing performance at Alicia Keys's Keep-A-Child-Alive Benefit.
 
Sagi Haviv joined Chermayeff & Geismar in 2003 after graduating from The Cooper Union School of Art. He teaches corporate identity design at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.