Tim Cohan has spent nearly 20 years working at industry-leading brand agencies developing strategic brand identities, print communications, interactive design, experiential graphics, and wayfinding systems for local and global organizations. He was most recently Associate Partner at Pentagram’s New York office where he developed brand identity systems for Warner Bros., DC, Fisher-Price, the Sanitation Foundation, the Wizarding World and its film and game properties; as well as the first permanent sign system for Hudson River Park in Manhattan.
Cohan is also a faculty member in SVA’s MFA Design program where he created and teaches a course called Brand Concepts. He acts as thesis advisor for one student each spring and is on the admissions committee, which reviews and selects applicants for the program each year.
Aside from graphic design he enjoys drawing, furniture design, and woodworking in his studio in Brooklyn.
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AIGA BoNE Show
Art Directors Club (NYC)
Connecticut Art Directors Club
EG Magazine
Fast Company
Hartford Art School
Metropolis Magazine
School of Visual Arts
Type Directors Club
Under Consideration
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Pentagram: Living By Design, Unit Editions, 2023.
Becoming a Design Entrepreneur, Allsworth Press, 2016.
Graphic Style Lab, Rockport Publishers, 2015.
Flaunt: Designing Effective, Compelling and Memorable Portfolios of Creative Work, Under Consideration, 2015.
Raw Data, Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Daily Heller, “Sketching as Meditation: Drawing on Rome”, 2014.
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Select Former and Current Clients
Amazon
Abu Dhabi Municipality
Academy for Teachers
Caruso
City Creek Reserve
DC
Fisher-Price
Gemological Institute of America
Gowanus Studio Space
Hines
Le Guanahani
Hudson River Park Trust
NC Changwon Park
Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition
Rosewood Miramar Beach
Sanitation Foundation
School of Visual Arts
Scotts Miracle-Gro
Warner Bros.