Jeff Goodby And Rich Silverstein It’s… ironic to try to write something useful about Rich and Jeff’s induction into The One Club’s Creative Hall of Fame. I mean, neither of these guys intended to commit their lives to advertising. They wanted to do something- some act of imagination and craft-and do it so well that…

Art directors need not be told that they exercise considerable effect upon the far-flung levels of communication. This appraisal may not necessarily enjoy the condign public accord, but it is nonetheless demonstrably true. The art director, in our contemporary scheme of things, wields virtual daily power over what and how people see, hear, and, perhaps,…

Goldie “Red” Burns is considered by many to be the godmother of Silicon Alley, New York’s downtown multimedia hub. Her former students have gone on to launch Internet start-ups, create interactive twits at traditional media companies and pioneer new communications technologies worldwide. Burns is the chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York…

Rebeca Méndez is a highly influential designer and artist who has achieved excellence and distinction in both fields. She has an international reputation as a leading voice in the production of socially-grounded, aesthetically rigorous design, innovative media-inflected arts, and monumental permanent public art. Her current research and practice examine reciprocal relationships and environmental justice in…

Oscar Wilde once wrote, “It is through art and through art only, that we can realize our perfection.” Reba Sochis is the personification of Wilde’s statement. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reba Sochis grew up expecting to follow in her sister’s footsteps: go to university and study to become a teachercertainly the proper profession for a…

The role of an industrial designer is a difficult one. Through his knowledge of applied art, he must create a manufactured article that will appeal aesthetically to the consumer and result in its purchase. Sales interest, stylistic trends and various other considerations are usually employed to determine how a product should look. One of the…

Raymond Rubicam (June 16, 1892 – May 8, 1978) was an American advertising pioneer who co-established the Young & Rubicam (Y&R) advertising agency with John Orr Young. He retired from Y&R in 1944 at age 52. Raymond Rubicam’s innovative leadership and creativity led many to recognize him as “advertising’s statesman.” Because his creative concepts and…

Bernice Alexandra “Ray” Eameswas born on December 15, 1912 in Sacramento, California. She graduated from Sacramento High School in 1931 and, two years later, from New Yorks May Friend Bennett School, where she pursued her interest in fashion design. Thereafter, for a period of six years, Ray studied with Hans Hofmann, the abstract expressionist. In…

In a day and age when good enough passes for great, and passable is more than sufficient, Ralph Ammirati has based his career on a very simple philosophy; no second class anything, any time, any place. How he maintains this quality is really quite simple. No detail escapes him. Even though he has enough laurels…

One assumes that when R.O. Blechman came into the world in 1930, he came quietly. It is difficult to imagine him being loud or obstreperous even in the trauma of birth. His speaking voice never quite reaches that of a stage whisper, but it fits perfectly his persona of determined understatement. And his drawings reflect…