I knew Cliff would be inducted into some hall of fame 20 years ago. You can’t have that much raw talent and not get into one of those. When I met him, at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Cliff was on a tear as a writer. He was sitting quietly, cloistered away in his office surrounded by…

Claude Hopkins created “Reason-Why Advertising” which, as David Ogilvy later wrote, “perceived the importance of brand images a generation before the term came into use.” Hopkins told Americans that Quaker Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat were “Shot from guns” and advised them to “Brush the film” off their teeth with Pepsodent. His greatest contribution to…

During the worst depression this country has ever known, a 20-year-old artist named Cipe Pineles walked around New York trying to sell her paintings of sandwiches and Coca-Cola bottles. Several decades later, of course, magazines likeMcCall’swould indeed buy Cipe Pineles’ still lives of sandwiches, as wouldLadies Home Journalher herbs, andHouse Beautifulher cheesecake. In the intervening…

You dont draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny, a child once explained to animation director Chuck Jones. Thats a very profound observation because it means he thinks the characters are alive, which, as far as Im concerned, is true, says Jones who believes, Animation isnt the illusion of life; it is life.…

Christoph Niemann was born in Waiblingen, Germany in 1970. Between 1991 and 1997 he studied Graphic Design at the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart, Germany, with Heinz Edelmann. The Art Directors Club of Germany awarded his master thesis with the Talent Of The Year Award. His first stints in New York were internships…

Charles Tudor began his design career as a staff artist for the Cleveland Press. He was twenty years old, a graduate of the Cleveland Art School and the year was 1923. After three years at the Press he obtained a leave of absence to study in Paris. His employer thought it was for four weeks.…

“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…