Mr. Sackheim, Harry Scherman and Robert K. Haas in 1926 founded the Book-of-the-Month Club, the nation’s first direct-mail book club. Eleven years earlier, Mr. Sackheim had formed a New York advertising firm in partnership with Mr. Scherman Two years after the book club was founded, Mr. Sackheim sold his interest, moved to Cleveland and went…

“The fruits of your talent and ability are nothing short of genius. As one of the few designers who has drawn typefaces for metal, photo, and digital medium, the substance of your designs is legendary. The typefaces you create combine indisputable beauty and relevance to the real-world of graphic communication in such a manner that…

Massimo and Lella Vignelli had a profound effect on the way people interact with urban design, starting with the iconic signage of the New York City subway system in 1978. The Vignellis created corporate identity that included American Airlines, Bloomingdales and Benetton.     Their complete oeuvre, product design, furniture and interiors design has been…

Born in Milano in 1931, Massimo Vignellistudied architecture there and in Venice, and since then has worked with his wife Leila, an architect, in the field of designfrom graphics to products, from furniture to interiors. Based in New York since 1965, their work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections…

Called by Ad Age “advertising’s most widely publicized symbol of glamour-success-wealth-brains-and-beauty” at the time of her Hall of Fame induction, Mary Wells Lawrence began her remarkable career in the early ’50s at McKelvey’s department store, and by 1966 had founded Wells Rich Greene. A veteran of Doyle Dane Bernbach and the youngest Hall-of-Famer ever at…

Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. For over four decades, she has traveled extensively…

Martin Puris founded his agency Ammirati & Puris together with Ralph Ammirati in 1973. The two had worked together on award-winning work for Fiat at Carl Ally, Inc. His classic line for BMW,”The Ultimate Driving Machine” still defines the luxury car today, over thirty years later.     Puris wrote “The Antidote for Civilization” for…

Graphic designer, artist, and educator Martin Solomon studied Communication design at New York University and Pratt Institute. During his first professional years he worked at advertising agencies BBDO and Doyle Dane Bernbach. He is the author of The Art of Typography; his area of major contribution to the contemporary graphic design industry. The typographical logos…

The paintings and drawings of Marshall Arisman have been widely exhibited both internationally and nationally, and his work may be seen in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the New York Historical Society and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Guang Dong Museum of Art, Telfair Museum…

Maira Kalman was born in sandy, breezy Tel Aviv in 1949. Her family moved to New York City in 1954 where hamburgers and onions were frying. She easily adapted to her new country, learning the language quickly, but refusing to pledge allegiance to the flag each morning in school. She studied music at the High…