Pentagram: Living by Design
About
A two‑volume design monograph built for those who value craft, context, and continuity. Pentagram: Living by Design captures fifty years of the world’s most influential design partnership with a format that feels deliberate: Book One is the biography, mixing partner voices, a visual essay across branding, cultural, editorial, and three‑dimensional work, plus a family tree that maps the studio’s evolution.
Book Two is the directory, profiling fifty partners with extensive project coverage that reads like a living archive. Designed by Tony Brook and Spin, the layout is clean, grid‑forward, and image‑dense, with typography that serves the work rather than shouting over it.
At 1,392 pages and thousands of illustrations, it’s a serious object but still navigable, balancing breadth with clarity. For anyone who studies how design scales without losing identity, this is the benchmark from a studio that has quietly defined modern visual culture.
