INTRO


THE STREET


TYPOGRAPHY
The Familiar
The Modern


IDENTITY
Corporate Culture
Subcultures
Design Cultures


PUBLISHING
The Book
The Magazine
Electronic
Publishing


INTERVIEWS


Working in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s before joining the New York office of Pentagram in 1988, Pirtle has brought a sense of humor to the field of corporate identity, designing symbols that are funny and figurative as well as assertively two-dimensional.

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© Copyright 1996 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Fine Line Features (1992)
Landa Pharmaceutical (1985)
Travis Construction (1985)
Logos designed by Woody Pirtle (b. 1944)