Education
He studied in the art high school Telma Yelin in Givataim. He studied graphic design at The Cooper Union School of Art where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He studied in the art high school Telma Yelin in Givataim. He studied graphic design at The Cooper Union School of Art where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker, and a "wunderkind" by Out magazine, he is best known for having designed the trademarks and visual identities for a diverse array of institutions such as the Library of Congress, Conservation International, the John Doctorate. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Harvard University Press, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and others, as well as for international commercial brands such as Armani Exchange. Haviv was born in Kibbutz Nachshonim, Israel, where spent his early life. In 1996, Haviv moved to New New York
Haviv began his design career when he joined Chermayeff & 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. Haviv’s motion graphics work includes the main titles for the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series Carrier, and the 2010 Public Broadcasting Service documentary series Circus, and a typographic animation for the centerpiece performance at Alicia Keys’s Black Ball, 2009 for Keep A Child Alive.
Sagi Haviv teaches corporate identity design at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.