R.I.P. A LOGO LEGEND… DON ERVIN

You have probably not heard of Don Ervin (don´t worry, neither had we, or The Moment for that matter!) but you will no doubt recognize his legacy…  He is the graphic designer reponsible for some of the most famous logos in the design world including Herman Miller, Met Life, and Transamerica…

“Designers’ personalities sometimes get more attention than their work. But Ervin was old school. He just did the work. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in industrial design in 1950, he began a career that specialized in corporate identity, from packaging to signage. But like many designers of his generation — a time when graphic design was less important to popular culture than other, more tactile, design disciplines — he settled into working for others rather than for himself.

Ervin’s employers included Architectural Record magazine, George Nelson & Company (where he was the director of graphic design from 1954 to 1962), and corporate identity and branding companies like Lippincott & Margulies (now known as Lippincott), Sandgren & Murtha, Tempo Ltd., and Siegel & Gale, where he was the executive vice president and creative director from 1973 until he retired in 1987. In retirement, Ervin devoted himself to making fantasy cars — some of which he actually raced, at age 83, in a Kingston, N.Y., soapbox derby — from brushed and stainless steel machine parts.” (via The Moment)

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