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,…

Known as the “father” of direct response advertising, John Caples wrote one of the most quoted lines in advertising history: “They laughed when I sat down at the piano… but when I started to play!” He spent all but two of his 57-year career at BBDO, where in one of the depression’s bleakest years (1930),…

Joe Pytka is a dominant force and creator of some of the best and most well-known television commercials ever made. He began his career at WRS Motion Picture and Video Lab in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 70s. The director started shooting shows for WQED and working on documentaries in various capacities, includingSteeltown Blues,Maggies Farm,…

This business is strange. Take it seriously, do your damnedest to make your work intelligent and interesting, and you can be accused of devoting your life to a worthless pursuit. Treat it with little or no respect, as merely a means by which you earn your daily crust, and it can quickly become a sterile,…

Joe Pytka is creator of some of the best and most well-known television commercials ever made. Pytka has directed more than 5,000 ads for some of the world?s largest corporations, and earned many awards and nominations including three Directors Guild of America Commercial Direction Awards and 15 nominations.     Over the past three decades,…