Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, Bob Gill, and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin.
Pentagram was founded on the premise of collaborative interdisciplinary designers working together in an independently owned firm of equals.The firm currently comprises 19 partner-designers in 5 cities, each managing a team of designers and sharing in common overhead and staff resources. The partners in each office share incomes equally and all the partners own an equal portion of the total firm. This equality, along with the tradition of periodically inviting new members to join, renews the firm while giving even the newest members an equal footing with the partners of long standing. This ‘flat’ organization (there are no executive officers, CEO, CFO or board, other than the entire group) along with the self-capitalized finances of the business, allows equal participation and control of the group’s destiny by the members.
Salaries for Pentagram employees vary depending on job responsibilities, skills, and education, but they are competitive within the industry. Pentagram does not list salaries on its website. The salaries are reported anonymously by employers and employees. As of September 2011, Glassdoor.com reported an average annual salary of $76,000 for Pentagram employees. Salaries for several positions were reported including:
Graphic Designer: $38,000-$60,000
Industrial Designer: $48,000-$52,000
Information Designer: $48,000-$78,000
Graphic Design Intern: $1,918-$2,066/month
Graphic Designer (Hourly): $17-$18
The target audience for Pentagram would be interested in architecture, interiors, products, identities, publications, posters, books, exhibitions, websites, and digital installations. so basely they job is to designed packaging and products for different companies, so the advertise their need it just based on how success they work are. Also in the world there is many other excellent companies has offer services/products that competitors with pentagram, likeĀ Checkland Kindleysides,The Chase, Studio Dumbar,Ā those areĀ also someĀ great Graphic Design Firms in the World and also doing with someĀ same or different type of design likeĀ Retail design,brand communications, corporate branding and maybe some of print sectors. In general although many rivals, pentagram still have them own superiority, they work for a lot of famous company and create some success logo.
Works Cited:
http://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/pentagram-career-profile
http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/50-best-graphic-design-firms-in-the-world/
