S1E7: Susan Sellers + Cynthia Round

Susan Sellers was creative director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cynthia Round was its senior vice president of marketing and external relations.

Together, they spent three years rebranding The Met, as their new logo calls it, to unite three different locations, including the Marcel Breuer building that belonged to the Whitney Museum.

Rebranding the identity of a complex organization can be a formidable task. As Round says:

It’s never about a logo. It really is about a much bigger strategy and about transformation. And so you have to have everyone invested in that, because at the end of the process everyone has to be joined together in delivering.

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