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Sagi Haviv is a New York-based graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

and a partner in the design firm Chermayeff & Geismar

Chermayeff & Geismar

Chermayeff & Geismar is a prominent New York-based branding and graphic design firm. It was founded in 1957 by Yale graduates Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar...

. Called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, and a "wunderkind" by Out magazine, he has designed the trademarks and visual identities for a diverse array of institutions such as the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

, Conservation International

Conservation International

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, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Parks of New York Harbor

National Parks of New York Harbor

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, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is a four-year, professional college of art and design, founded in 1974. It offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 11 majors and is considered the successor to the Layton School of Art....

, the International Tchaikovsky Competition

International Tchaikovsky Competition

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, and others, as well as for international commercial brands such as Armani Exchange.

Biography

Haviv was born in Kibbutz Nachshonim, Israel, where spent his early life. He studied in the art high school Telma Yelin in Givataim.

In 1996, Haviv moved to New York. He studied graphic design at the The Cooper Union School of Art where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Haviv began his design career when he joined Chermayeff & Geismar

Chermayeff & Geismar

Chermayeff & Geismar is a prominent New York-based branding and graphic design firm. It was founded in 1957 by Yale graduates Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar...

in 2003. There he created "Logomotion" - a ten-minute motion graphics 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. The piece won prestigious awards in Tokyo and in New York and was exhibited in New york (2003), at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...

in Washington DC (2004), the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo (2005), Centro in Mexico City (2006) and the Pera Museum

Pera Museum

The Pera Museum , is a private art museum and gallery located in Istanbul, Turkey, which was established in 2005 by the "Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation". Suna Kıraç is the youngest daughter of the late Turkish tycoon Vehbi Koç, and İnan Kıraç her husband...

Istanbul (2007).

In 2005, Sagi Haviv became partner at Chermayeff & Geismar, where he has since developed institutional and corporate identities, print and motion graphics and art in architecture for a divers array of clients worldwide — in Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan, Mexico, Dubai, Turkey, and Russia — as well as throughout the United States.

Haviv’s motion graphics work includes the main titles for the 2008 Emmy Award winning PBS documentary series Carrier, and the 2010 PBS documentary series Circus, and a typographic animation for the centerpiece performance at Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys

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’s Black Ball, 2009 for Keep A Child Alive

Keep A Child Alive

Keep a Child Alive provides first class AIDS care, treatment, surrounding support and food for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.-Background:...

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Sagi Haviv teaches corporate identity design at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
In 2011, he co-authored with his partners, Tom Geismar

Tom Geismar

Thomas H. Geismar is an American graphic designer.Geismar studied concurrently at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University...

and Ivan Chermayeff the book Identify.

Awards

In 2004, Haviv received the Tokyo Type Directors Club award for Logomotion, for which he also won an award from the New York Art Directors Club.

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