When one visualizes the profusion of company graphic signs currently displayed in the social area, several questions arise, but nevertheless one is basic: what enables these graphic images to have so much strength which allows them to be recognized as representative of the companies to which they belong or as sign indicative of the trademarks of products whose consumption is desired? The purpose of this research work is to present the understanding of how the company graphic sign attains this strength, which in this work is understood as efficiency. As we perform our analysis of the phenomenon, the efficiency of the company graphic sign cannot be comprehended based on the technical characteristics of its configuration, but rather as the cultural construction of a symbolic field of production – the design field. This phenomenon was possible only because large-scale social transformations took place which greatly deepened the initial breakthrough of the establishment of the Modern Age. One of these was the change in the model for visualizing in the 19th century which enabled the design field to achieve its legitimate principles of graphic image production and thus justify to society the mastery of their production. Another change involved the shift in the model of subjective satisfaction, which furnished the bases for modern insatiable consumption. This change offered the opportunity for instituting the importance of trademarks – images projected based on values attributed to the undertakings – and the strength of their graphic signs. For the articulation of these two changes with the analysis of the graphic sign´s efficiency, the following authors were utilized: Jonathan Crary and Colin Campbell, who contributed respectively with relevant indications of these changes which allowed individuals in modern societies to visualize and consume in an independent way. In the analysis of the design field´s functioning, a fundamental author was utilized: Pierre Bourdieu, who makes explicit, by means of his theory of symbolic field production, the way in which a symbolic asset – for example, a graphic image – achieves recognition as legitimate. Based on this symbolic field production, it is possible to comprehend that the efficiency of the company graphic sign depends on its legitimizing, carried out in a precise way among the various agents and institutions on the levels of this independent field of design, in a constant struggle for legitimacy in the social hierarchy.