“Let a man get knowledge or buy a rope,” Diogenes Laertius advised. It is questionable whether or not Charles Eames knew of this biographer of the Greek philosophers, but his words are doubly appropriate here in this posthumous celebration of the American architect and designer, for Eames was a diligent practitioner of the Greek’s credo.…

Many have used art and artists well, but perhaps none with the versatility, elegance, and thoroughness found in the continuous body of Charles Coiner’s work. Coiner holds a special copyright when it comes to the merger of the fine and applied arts in advertising. He spent his 40-year career art directing at N. W. Ayer…

There’s nothing I can say about Carl that he hasn’t said better himself. Nonetheless. Carl’s resounding success, as I see it, is a tribute to his flaws. In our timid, cautious, respectful, bland, buttoned-up and obedient profession, Carl was termagant, bumptious, abrasive, daring, impulsive, adamant. A genuine aginner. Couple this with a jugular accuracy in…

Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1946. He moved to New York City, studying film at New York University (NYU), and photography with Lisette Model at the New School. Weber first rose to international prominence in the early eighties on the success of images that combined classical styling with more…

If Bruce McCalls work could be said to have a trademark, it would be the sly and pokerfaced blending of reality with fantasy to create impossible but almost credible objects, scenes and worlds, usually in the cause of satire, and often historical satire. A pre-adolescent Bruce McCall won the five-dollar first prize for watercolors at…

French photographer Brigitte Lacombe lives in New York City. Her loves are portraits and traveling. Lacombe anima|persona her retrospective book of photographs from 1975-2008, was published in 2009 by SteidlDangin with an essay by Frank Rich. “Lacombe cinema|theater” was published in 2001 by Schirmer/Mosel with essays by David Mamet and Adam Gopnik. Brigitte left school…

Bradbury Thompson (1911–1995) was one of the giants of 20th century graphic design, and was recognized for his achievements by every major American design organization: National Society of Art Directors (1950), AIGA Gold Medal (1975), Art Directors Hall of Fame (1977). In 1983, he received the Frederic W. Goudy Award for Typographic Excellence from RIT.…

A look at the commercials Bob Giraldi has directed over his 20-year career is perplexing for the compulsive labeler. His signature style does not rely on a single technique, such as a shaky camera, or genre, such as dialogue. In fact, Giraldi is an adman for whom a large-enough pigeonhole has not yet been built:…

Bob Gill was born in New York. His father took off soon afterwards. His mother was a piano teacher. Gill, at five, was her first pupil. He began illustrating at about the same time. He had his first band at ten, played Bar-mitzvahs and summer resorts in the Borscht Belt at fourteen, and joined the…

Bob Greenberg ?founder, chairman and CEO of R/GA?has been a pioneer in the advertising and communications industry for nearly four decades. He leads the vision for R/GA, an agency that serves as the digital partner for Fortune 500 companies and world-renowned brands, including Nike, Beats by Dr. Dre, Unilever, L?Oréal, MasterCard, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Ameriprise and…