Michael Gericke was educated in graphic design at the University of Wisconsin. After graduation he moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he produced projects combining graphics with three-dimensional design at Communication Arts Inc.

Michael joined Pentagram’s New York office in 1986. As a partner in the firm he is responsible for graphic identity and corporate communication programs for a broad range of international organizations.

Michael has received many accolades from design associations and museums, including Fortune magazine’s Beacon Award for the creation of outstanding strategic design programs. His identity, promotional and poster work appears regularly in international design exhibitions and is represented in the permanent collections of the Musée de la Poste in Paris, the Warsaw Poster Museum at Winalow, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, the Neue Sammlung Museum in Munich, Japan’s Ogaki Museum and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

He has served on the Executive Committee of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), is a frequent lecturer at universities and professional organizations, and has taught identity design at the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in New York. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).