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…

Bob Gage, like his ads, is one of a kind. He tackled the printed page and it hasn’t been the same since. He made it jump. He made it talk. He made it laugh. He made it whisper. He made it shout. He made the newspaper page, the magazine page seem bigger than they had…

Robert Harold Levenson, who was as famous for his taglines in the golden age of advertising as he was for his roses in East Hampton, died in New York City on Jan. 16. He was 83 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr. Levenson was eulogized in print and blogs in the last week by…

Bill McCafferys plan after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia College of Art in 1958 was not to embark on an illustrious career in advertising, but to go to New York and spend his time creating art, designing, and playing the saxophone. He was happily freelancing as an illustrator for Esquire and…

Bill Bernbach was a discoverer. He was the art directors first great benefactor. He arrived on the advertising scene at exactly the right moment, when the great war was over, when America was changing, when people were thirsting for a new grace and clarity in this brave new world. Bernbach had a vision unlike any…