Jim Henson brought a fresh new approach to the world of art direction and design, film and television withSesame Streetand the Muppets, and was one of the most important communicators in the last hundred years. Henson began his television career in 1954 as a puppeteer on a local television show in Washington, DC. The following…

Jim Riswold spent his professional career at Wieden+Kennedy creating memorable and effective campaigns foremost for Nike. His commercials ?Bo Knows;? ?Hello World? featuring Tiger Woods;? and the work that paired Michael Jordan and Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon defined a new era in advertising and entertainment, as well as selling shoes.     After leaving…

Durfee was the first grown-up I met in advertising, and I had been at two agencies before I worked for him at Carl Ally Incorporated. Durfee’s office overlooked the rectory of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the old Villard House, and all of Madison Avenue from 23rd Street to where it narrow and climbs up Carnegie Hill.…

Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel are partners at Winterhouse, a designstudio in northwest Connecticut. Their work focuses on print and online publishing, educational and cultural institutions, and design programs of social impact. They are the 2009-10 recipients of Rockefeller Foundation funding to develop a global initiative around design and social innovation; the winners of a…

Wheres Jerry? Riney said it a lot. Almost as often as I dont see an idea here. Of course, it was never about finding Jerry. Jerry was not elusive. The mad inventor simply wanted to see his machine-builder. The one whod engineer a notion to life. Theyd have a brief conversation followed by Jerry walking…

Jerry Della Femina (born 1936) is an American advertising executive and restaurateur. Starting from a poor Italian background in Brooklyn, he eventually became chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners, an agency which he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s. Over the next two decades they grew the company into a major advertising house…

Self-taught and self-made, Jerome Snyder was an artist of uncommonly high order whose extraordinary knowledge and literary abilities were inexorably intertwined and were inseparable from his fanciful visual concepts. In the 50’s as the first Art Director ofSports Illustrated, he introduced contemporary illustration to editorial matter in an arena previously the domain of photography. In…

Jeff Goodby And Rich Silverstein It’s… ironic to try to write something useful about Rich and Jeff’s induction into The One Club’s Creative Hall of Fame. I mean, neither of these guys intended to commit their lives to advertising. They wanted to do something- some act of imagination and craft-and do it so well that…

After receiving his degree from Rutgers University, Jay attended the Columbia Graduate School of Broadcasting and later graduated from the UCLA Executive Program. He started his career in advertising as a copywriter for the Leland Oliver Company. He became Creative Director before leaving in 1962 to form Jay Chiat & Associates. Chiat/Day was born in…

Jay Maisel finds beauty in a thousand placessome whose association with beauty is incongruous, all where there was beauty to begin with. The distinctive light and gesture in Maisels vibrant photographs, which set them apart from the work of other photographers, have earned their creator a reputation of excellence. By the time Maisel was 24…