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…

In the halcyon days of 1928, before the great economic crash that shook the country and the world, magazine publishing was a considerably less beleaguered business than it is today. An earlier century’s tradition of personal enterprise was still alive and many publishing companies were imprinted with the name and style of the founder. Conglomerates…

It was the time when Ulysses S. Grant was President of the United States. It was the time when the great powers of Europe were dividing Africa into colonial states. And it was a time when a small boy in Stuttgart, Germany, developed a pastime that was to affect the world of graphic art during…

To learn about Louise Fili, read the official announcement for her TDC Medal.     Listen to Louise talk about her career at the Type Directors Club 2017 conference, Type Over Time, in this video.  

Louis Silverstein is probably the only art director ever to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a nomination that was put forward by A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of theNew York Times. In Rosenthal’s opinion, “Everybody who knows anything about American newspapers knows that Lou Silverstein ranks as the outstanding newspaper designer in the country.” Silverstein…