Len Sirowitz was chosen as ”The Number One Art Director in America” in 1968 and 1970 polls taken byAd Weekly. He was then Senior Vice President and Creative Management Supervisor at Doyle Dane Bernbach and his accounts included corporate giants like Mobil, Volkswagen and Sony, regional accounts such as Laura Scudder Potato Chips and Rainier…

This is the city, Los Angeles, California. It’s a magical place known for burritos, celebrities, Disneyland, Dodgers, earthquakes, EST, freeways, palm trees, smog, tofu, valley girls andadvertising? There are ten million stories of people who work and play here. Lee Clow is one of them and this is his story… Born in Los Angeles in…

There are only two people I’ve ever worked with in advertising who can stand in a war room papered with a thousand ideas that run the gamut from awful to promising and, without seeming to think or ponder, point to The One that’s right, that will work, that will make the clients rich and the…

In 1939, when Ladislav Sutnar arrived in New York to execute his design for the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World’s Fair, he was already known throughout Europe for his pioneering typography, for the force of his graphics and the compelling simplicity of his exhibition design. Since 1927, he had been in charge of all publication…

In a sense, the Bauhaus movement, in which Lszl Moholy-Nagy was so strong a moving spirit, sought to “co-opt” our industrial/technological environment before it could co-opt us. It was a utopian vision, and some would say a failed one. But for all of that, the achievements of this almost legendary center, in education and in…

Kevin OCallaghan is a design educator with a unique focus on transformative conceptualization. OCallaghan has been teaching 3-D design courses at the School of Visual Arts since 1985. In 1999, he founded the undergraduate 3-D design program, which he currently chairs. In collaboration, he and his students transform wasteful, dangerous, obsolete and iconic objects, products…

Koenig was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Minna (Harlib) and Morris Koenig. He was from a family of lawyers and judges. He studied at Dartmouth College and briefly at Columbia Law School. Before finishing law school he dropped out to write a novel and later found his…

John C. Jay serves as global executive creative director and is a partner at Wieden+Kennedy. He works with Dan Wieden to oversee all global creative work with a focus in recent years on the agency’s expansion in Asia with the Tokyo, Shanghai and New Delhi offices. In 2004, Jay also founded W+K Tokyo Lab, the…

John Maeda is an American executive spearheading a new convergence across the design and technology industries. He currently advises dozens of technology businesses as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — a world-leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Named as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century by…

John Webster (1934-2006) will be honored posthumously for his brilliant career as a writer and director of British television commercials.     Although his name was never on the door Webster was one of the founders of Boase Massimi Pollitt (BMP) and his iconic work for Cadbury?s Smash Martians, Jack Dee for John Smith?s Bitter,…