I’m not going to start out by telling you Amil’s a great Art Director. You already know that. What I am going to tell you is – Amil wasn’t born that way. I think it’s important for all of you aspiring young art directors out there to know that. Amil went through every stage every…

With the current interest in American design history, it is fitting that Alvin Lustig be honored for his significant influence on American design and design education. His wide-ranging work from the 1940s and early 1950s included book and book jacket design, magazines, letterheads, catalogs, signage, furniture and lighting, textiles, interior design, logos, identity programs, sculpture…

Allen Hurlburt is best known for his magazine design and his creative use of photographic images during the sixties, and magazines were his principal design focus almost from the beginning. Born in 1910, by the time he was 21 years old he was both editor and designer ofPunch Bowlat the University of Pennsylvania. It was…

Levine Huntley Schmidt & Beaver. For 20 years it was a place where anything was possible. Someone like Tina Turner could be called a homebody. A toy car could be treated like a real car. And a real car could be treated like it really is, overloaded and backed into trashcans (to the strains of…

Alexey Brodovitch was born in Russia shortly before the close of the last century. Some 73 years later he died in the remote obscurity of a small village in the south of France. For fifty years of his professional life, most of them in the United States, he was an artist, graphic designer, art director,…

The Washington Post art critic Paul Richard, reviewing an Alexander Liberman retrospective a few years ago, made an essential point about this extraordinary man. “History lists few artists of the caliber of Liberman who have held, much less insulated their painting from, intellectually demanding full-time jobs.” Putting it another way, history lists few art directors…

Alex Bogusky joined Crispin and Porter Advertising in 1989 as an art director. He became the creative director five years later, a partner in 1997 and a co-chairman in January 2008.Under Alexs direction, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has grown to more than 700 employees, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Los Angeles and London.    …

In 1939, at the age of 23, Alex Steinweiss revolutionized the way records were packaged and marketed. As the first art director for the recently formed Columbia Records, Steinweiss saw a creative opportunity in the companys packaging for its 78 rpm shellac records. The plain cardboard covers traditionally displayed only the title of the work…

Alan Fletcher drew pictures as a kid. When it came time to choose a career, life in post-war Britain only offered him three options: go to university, join the army, or work for a bank. None of these was very appealing to him. However, he was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend illustration courses…