Pentagram, founded in 1972, is one of the best known and most influential graphic, product, and architectural design firms in the world. Its partners are distinguished members of the international design community, consistently generating award-winning work of the highest quality. Included is a foreword on Pentagrams history and evolution by Rick Poynor, one of todays most respected design critics and founder of the incisive British graphic-design magazine Eye. Pentagram began with five partners, today, there are nineteen, working in London, New York, Austin, San Francisco, and Berlin. Following the firms unique partnership structure, they each have their own clients, and work in their own way with their teams. They share equally, and contribute equally. Similarities in style, temperament, and aspiration between them are few. Since Pentagrams inception, the firm has taken care to document its work and evolution (Pentagram: The Compendium, was published by Phaidon 1993).