Logic PD | Polivka Logan
Design - Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Logic PD | Polivka Logan Employees
Logic PD | Polivka Logan Details
Polivka_Logan was founded in 1960 as Polivka-Sharfenburg. Back then, the Cold War was in full swing, Elvis was in the army, John F. Kennedy was elected president, and industrial design was just becoming the hot new marketing tool. One of the first industrial and architectural design firms in the Midwest, Polivka-Sharfenburg began racking up a list of diverse portfolio of achievements, ranging from the Minnesota welcome center at the Wisconsin border to a variety of household products for General Mills that capitalized on the streamlined trend of the day. Logan Johnson joined the company at the end of the decade. With a new name and a new attitude, Polivka Logan Designers (PLD) focused all of its energies on industrial design. During the 1970s, PLD became one of the preeminent industrial design firms in the Midwest, shaping the brand identity of major technology companies like Sperry, Univac, Control Data, NCR, and Cray Research.The company that had built a reputation for transforming its clients' products began transforming itself in the 1980s, by integrating the disciplines of industrial design and mechanical engineering.During the 1990s, Polivka_Logan Design began developing a specialty in the design and mechanical packaging of small electronic and medical devices. This led to a further expansion into electrical and software engineering when, in 1998, Polivka_Logan launched Logic Product Development.
