If you think Mona Lisa’s smile is enigmatic, take a good look at this photograph of Edward Sorel. Is that expression a grin or a grimace? As it happens, it’s both. Together, the smile and the sigh, the wit and the mordancy make him one of the supreme caricaturists of our time. He leaves the…

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Benguiat got acquainted with design and showcard lettering when he was nine years old. His father was display director at Bloomingdale’s and he had all the drawing tools a little boy could want. Edward would play with his father’s pens, brushes, and drafting sets, and learned about sign painting,…

Still in his mid-30s, Edward McCabe has been a copywriter for 18 years. Brought up in Evanston, Illinois, he began his career in Chicago, moving to New York in 1959. While with Benton & Bowles, The Marschalk Company, and Carl Ally, he began to develop a reputation for writing advertising that people remember. By 1967,…

Dr. Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 – August 19, 2009) was a typographer as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council. He was critical to the development of SoundSpel. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A longtime resident of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Rondthaler became a centenarian in 2005. Rondthaler…

Ed Benguiat (born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an American typographer. He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic. He also designed logotypes for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, the original Planet of the Apes film, Super Fly and…

In 1915, E. McKnight Kauffer, an impeccable, young American illustrator just arrived in London, was commissioned for his first poster for the city’s Underground Railway, which was starting an adventurous corporate campaign, treating stations like shops and advertising the delights found en route, with the work of fine artists and painters and ‘new’ typography. Kauffer’s…

Duane Michals emphatically defines himself by what he is not, saying first and foremost that he is not a photographer. I am an expressionist and by that I mean Im not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs. Michals repeatedly…

Diane is the Founding Director of Virginia Commonwealth University’s grad school, the Brandcenter. Launched in 1995, the goal was to educate the next generation of communications leaders. With help from esteemed professionals including a number of the One Club’s Hall Of Fame leaders, that goal has become a reality. Today, the VCU Brandcenter boasts a…

You can’t talk about Diane Rothschild without mentioning Doyle Dane Bernbach, and vice versa. Such was the creative environment that has become legendary an environment that inspired people to think big, by thinking small. It not only cultivated great advertising, it cultivated great talents. And as each generation had its stars, none shown brighter than…

Deborah Sussman pioneered the field called Environmental Graphic Design. Her contributions to urban branding have been internationally applauded, and influenced generations of designers. Her education and training began with scholarships to Bard College and the Institute of Design (ID) in Chicago. At 22, she was invited to join the office of Charles and Ray Eames.…