When you say Doyle Dane Bernbach, a few clients’ names spring to mind automatically. Volkswagon and Avis are inevitably two of those. Few, if any, advertising campaigns have had the stupefying effect of those two. And they were both Helmut Krone’s. They were his as Art Director, of course. But even more importantly, they were…

Harry Jacobs has always been bigger than the business he’s in. Don’t get my wrong. Advertising’s great: It’s big and grand. It’s just that Harry Jacobs is bigger and grander. If advertising was a person at a party, it might well be the person you want to hang around with (certainly ahead of politics and…

It was just eleven and a half years ago, during the summer of 1982. I was at Ammirati & Puris and we were looking for a new voice for BMW. I’d heard a voice that I liked a lot on a campaign for Gallo wines, and since an old friend of mine worked at Ogilvy…

In 1949 Gyrgy Kepes moved into his house and studio on Long Pond Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts on the northwest hook of Cape Cod. The house was designed by Marcel Breuer, an old friend from his days in Hungary. An early visitor to the site observed the gulls circling over the great stretches of sand…

As H. Berthold AG’s artistic director from 1961 to 1990, G.G. Lange was responsible for the creation, meticulous production standards and attention to quality found in each of the Berthold Exklusivs. G.G. Lange’s type designs include his classic revivals: AG Book, AG Old Face, Berthold Garamond, Berthold Baskerville Book, Berthold Bodoni Old Face and Berthold…

Born in Fort Scott, Kansas on November 30, 1912, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks had to leave home at 15 when his mother died. For the next 12 years, he lived mainly in Minneapolis, working as a piano player, busboy, dining-car waiter, Civilian Conservation Corpsman, and professional basketball player before taking up photography in the…

In between his graduation from Yale in 1914 and his service as a Signal Officer in the Navy in World War I, Gordon Aymar worked as art editor for two of the most exciting and influential magazines in American publishing historyVanity FairandHarper’s Weekly. AtVanity Fair, under editor-in-chief Frank Crowninshield, a remarkable staff came together. Some…

Giorgio Soavi was the corporate design director for Olivetti for nearly five decades, during which time he conceived many of the company’s most exciting projects and discovered important artists and designers early in their careers, among themMilton Glaser, Jean Michel Folon, andPaul Davis. Wrote Glaser, The atmosphere at Olivetti made it difficult to do mediocre…

For more info on Gerrit Noordzij, see the official announcement for his TDC Medal.    

According to TDC board member Dan Rhatigan of Adobe Typekit, “Gerard has been very influential as a typeface designer, since his work has had an impact in so many contexts, but his legacy as a beloved teacher of additional generations of type designers may prove to have even further reach. We unanimously decided to give…