After breaking into the advertising agency business in 1961 at Wade Advertising (Chicago), Tom Burrell quickly worked his way from the mailroom into the position of Junior Copywriter. From there, Tom went on to Leo Burnett (Chicago), Foote, Cone & Belding (London), and Needham, Harper & Steers (Chicago) before launching what is now Burrell Communications…

It must feel great to be elected to the Creative Hall of Fame. I guess the next best thing would be to work with one who was. I did, and it was. Great, I mean. It was 1971 when a young Tom McElligott came in to see me with a book fresh out of Dayton’s…

This is what I know about Tim. He is tall. He likes to talk. He really likes to talk. He’s a bloody good writer, but you know that already. Tim’s other name is Deadline Delaney. Past the Deadline Delaney would be more accurate. His copy is always late. Tim possesses child-like wonderment. Tim is a…

Tibor Kalmans impact could not have been foreseen when he opened M&Co out of his Greenwich Village apartment on the proverbial kitchen table in 1979. Kalman entered the profession through happenstance, bringing with him none of the prejudices of design school training, and little of the expertise. He had a belief that graphic design could…

Thomas Maitland Cleland was among the first practitioners of the new profession of art directing. A complete art director, he was a well-developed artist, typographer, editor and printer who designed whole pages and whole booklets. His advertisements and marketing booklets for Locomobile and Cadillac automobiles are typical of his elegant and enduring work. While those…

Tadanori Yokoo was born in Nishiwaki, Japan in 1936. As a teenager, his modest dreams were to work at a post office and to paint. He entered the profession by replicating paintings, designing store wrapping paper, and drawing posters for the Chamber of Commerce. His first notable work, a self-titled poster at the Persona group’s…

Susan Hoffman has a tendency to shake things up a bit. That’s probably because she finds the status quo boring. She started her career at Pihas/Schmidt/Westerdahl (Portland, Oregon) and from there, moved to Chiat/Day/Livingston (Seattle) while working on such accounts as Alaska Airlines and Holland America. Three years later she moved on to Wieden+Kennedy, where…

Steven Heller has carved out an impressive career as the foremost authority in the United States on the history of graphic design. A practicing educator, art director, and designer, he is an assiduous writer, the author of numerous magazine articles and many books.Fred Woodwardhas called him a force of nature. At the age of 17,…

In 1984, Pratt Institute bestowed its prestigious Alumni Achievement Award upon three people. Two were successful business and engineering executives. The third has sold more soft drinks, automobiles, beer, lipstick, luggage, computers, telephones, gasoline, insurance, airline tickets, motor scooters and sneakers than anyone in the history of television advertising: Steve Horn! When one walks up…

In the spring of 1953, Stephen O. Frankfurt went to Hollywood. He was 22 years of age and had three years of study at Pratt Institute behind him. He visited every major studio and ad agency in Tinseltown, and not one of them had any interest in either him or his talent. Fifteen years later…