I still have a full collection of Dover clip art books stacked up in my office. Of course the whole collection is now available digitally, but I would not change one moment of the many days I spent (and still spend) poring over these wonderful books. If you are anything like me, you can imagine […]
Some 15 years ago I was giving a talk about stock photography trends at a conference and exhibit. Later I wandering the aisles, in a state that can only be called “trade show fatigue” — you know, flourescent lighting, hard floors, stale air, indecipherable products, junk food, bad ties, institutional hotel, keep losing my entry […]
Jan 1974 Philadelphia: For the first time since its inception, the Polycube, the top annual award of the Philadelphia Art Director’s Club, went to a person in the graphics field, Milton Glaser, head of Pushpin Studios and design consultant of New York magazine. Milton Glaser was chosen because the board felt that he represented “one […]
Remember Joe Torre? Better yet, remember the Yellow Pages? There is so much to love about this 1976 ad which was part of AT&T’s “Faces” campaign for the Yellow Pages. The ad featured Joe Torre, then a player on the New York Mets, as the owner of his Brooklyn sporting good store. Black and white […]
January/February 1974: In one of the wildest, craziest, nuttiest sessions ever thrown at the Club, 10 greats in the field of communications tossed barbs and insults faster and funnier than the best of Don Rickles and Jack E. leonard combined, at honored guest and award-winning designer Herb Lubalin. Lubalin is only the first. For this […]
I think it’s fair to say that whatever the Mad Men season premiere holds for us, it is sure to be a visual delight. Here are a few gifts inspired by the mid-cenutury interiors at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. And remember, there is nothing wrong with giving yourself one of these atomic artifacts. Vitra Nelson […]
Official Art Directors’ Signals Art Directors Club of New Jersey Fifteenth Annual Show(Detail of 1977 Call for Entries Advertisement) Top Row: Flush Left, Flush Right, Justify, BleedBottom Row: Client Loves It – You Hate It!, Client Loves It – You Love It!, Nobody Likes It!, You Win An Award!
We just couldn’t pass up posting this ad for Art Staff from August of 1969. How fondly we remember the good old days when art direction meant “accurate comps, mechanicals and finished art.” Bernard Tango aka “Bernie” is quite dashing too. Even though he wasn’t the “art director to win the Pan American dancing competition in […]
Photo Typesetter Turned On PSYCHEDELITYPES!! We thought you’d dig this groovy type ad from April 1968.
“Companies who understand the creative mind have always been rare but, in our 50 years of publishing, it is hard to remember a time when they have been more scarce. Changing technologies and tightening economics are creating dislocations, established brands are disappearing faster than Twinkies, and many companies who once embraced our magnificent market have […]
