New York, October 14, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.  The seven illustrious honorees, representing the fields of advertising, design, architecture, filmmaking, illustration, academia and photography, will be inducted at a black-tie benefit gala dinner on November 6, 2008, at the ADC Gallery in New York, with proceeds going toward ADC scholarship programs.

ADC Hall of Fame laureates for 2008 are:

• Alex Bogusky, co-chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky;
• Ray Eames (posthumous), designer, architect and filmmaker;
• Sir John Hegarty, chairman, worldwide creative director, Bartle Bogle Hegarty;
• Maira Kalman, illustrator, artist, designer;
• John Maeda, president, Rhode Island School of Design;
• R. Roger Remington, Massimo and Leila Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology;
• Bruce Weber, fashion photographer.

ADC, the premier organization for integrated media and the longest-running global creative collective of its kind, established the ADC Hall of Fame in 1971 as unique cross-disciplinary acknowledgement of the most renowned professionals in visual arts and communications.  Past inductees represent a diverse group of luminaries in those fields, including Richard Avedon, Saul Bass, Leo Burnett, Jay Chiat, Walt Disney, Milton Glaser, Annie Leibovitz, George Lois, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Rand, Andy Warhol and others (for the complete list, click here).

Ray and Charles Eames designed this lounge chair for Herman Miller in 1955/56 (Photo: Nick Merrick)

“ADC Hall of Fame pays lasting tribute to those whose careers have profoundly influenced the direction of their fields,” said Ami Brophy, CEO, ADC.  “This recognition honors an ongoing lifetime of achievement that exemplifies the highest standards of creative excellence and leads the industry forward.  We’re proud to capture the history of our industry in the accomplishments of these laureates.”

ADC Hall of Fame Nominating Committee was co-chaired by past ADC board member Gael Towey, chief creative officer, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and current board member Chee Pearlman, principal, Chee Company.  The full nominating committee included ADC board members Paul Lavoie, chairman, chief creative officer at TAXI and ADC immediate past president, Tony Palladino, Virginia Smith, Red Burns (Hall of Fame Laureate 1998), Paul Davis (Hall of Fame Laureate 1995), Richard Wilde (Hall of Fame Laureate 1999), Michael Donovan and Ann Harakawa, as well as George Lois (Hall of Fame Laureate 1978) and past ADC Board member Lisa Strausfeld.

ADC celebrates the 2008 Hall of Fame inductions with a series of “Fame Festival” week events, all taking place at the ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, New York.  These include:

• November 5: A conversation with Alex Bogusky and John Hegarty.
• November 6: ADC Hall of Fame 2008 black-tie benefit gala induction ceremony, beginning with a champagne reception and preview of the exhibition devoted to the work of the new laureates at 6:30pm, followed by a seated dinner and awards presentation emceed by the Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist John Hockenberry.
• November 11: A conversation with John Maeda and Maira Kalman.
• November 12: Honoring Ray Eames, with her grandson Eames Demetrios

Proceeds from the benefit gala dinner go towards ADC scholarship programs.  To register for any of these ADC Fame Festival week events, please visit the ADC event calendar.

BACKGROUND ON ADC HALL OF FAME LAUREATES 2008

Alex Bogusky

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

Bogusky’s work has won hundreds of top industry awards, including the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in all five categories: Sales Promotion, Media, Cyber, Titanium, and Film.  He was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement in 2002.

Sir John Hegarty

John Hegarty started in advertising as a junior art director at Benton and Bowles, London in 1965.  He later joined the Cramer Saatchi consultancy, which in 1970 became Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was a founding shareholder and, one year later, deputy CD.  Hegarty left in 1973 to co-found TBWA, London, where he served as creative director.  In 1980, the agency was the first to be voted Agency of the Year by Campaign magazine.

Two years later, Hegarty left TBWA with John Bartle and Nigel Bogle to start Bartle Bogle Hegarty.  BBH went on to be voted Campaign’s Agency of the Year four times, and the Cannes Advertising Festival’s very first Agency of the Year in 1993 (and again a year later) by winning more awards than any other agency.  BBH Worldwide was voted Campaign’s first Network of the Year in 2004.  Advertising Age voted them International Advertising Agency of the Year in 1997, and Network of the Year in 2005.

Hegarty’s industry awards include two D&AD Golds and six Silvers, Cannes Golds and Silvers, and British Television Gold and Silvers.  In 1994, he was awarded the D&AD President’s Award for outstanding achievement in the advertising industry, and in 2005 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Clio Awards.  The same year, he was inducted into The One Club of New York’s Creative Hall of Fame.

In 2002, Hegarty bought a vineyard in the south of France to great success: his wine chalked up an award of its own when Robert Parker, the legendary American wine critic, gave 92 points to his 2003 Cuvee No1.  In 2007, he received a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honors for services to advertising.

Ray Eames (posthumous)

Ray Eames came to New York from California in the early 1930s to pursue her interest in fashion design.  For six years, she studied with Hans Hofmann, the Abstract Expressionist, and in 1937 her paintings were exhibited in the first group show of the American Abstract Artists, of which she was a founding member.

In 1940, at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she began auditing weaving classes taught by Marianne Strengel.  Along with several other students, Ray helped her future husband Charles Eames (ADC Hall of Fame laureate 1984) and Eero Saarinen in readying for MoMA’s “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition; they won two first prizes.

Charles and Ray Eames were married in 1941.  During the day, she painted and designed covers for Arts & Architecture magazine while Charles worked at MGM.  At night, in their spare bedroom, they experimented with molding plywood into compound curves.  Their goal was to design simple, comfortable, affordable, single-shelled chairs which could be mass-produced; this was achieved in plastic a few years later.

Their accomplishments in molded plywood included sculptures and children’s toys with compound curves, chairs with separate backs and seats (the DCW and LCW) and mass-produced pieces used in WWII by the U.S. Navy (including 150,000 leg splints as well as airplane parts and body litters).  The Eameses expanded their design business in 1943, and for more than forty years, the Office of Charles and Ray Eames went on to produce furniture, toys, films, exhibitions and more.

In 1945, a competition was announced by Arts & Architecture magazine that challenged architects to reconsider the notion of “house” in preparation for the influx of returning GIs.  Ray and Charles designed and built their home (Case Study House #8) alongside a meadow on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean; it was one of the first homes to use industrial materials in a residential setting.

Further highlights of their collaborative work include: the Lounge Chair and Ottoman, a departure from their other chairs in its melding of hand craftsmanship and technology; the House of Cards, a unique, colorful construction toy made of slotted cards; Powers of Ten, one of 125 films made in 28 years, which explores the relative size of everything in the universe; and Mathematica, their first major exhibition designed to be “of interest to a bright student and not embarrass the most knowledgeable.”

Ray and Charles Eames left a vital legacy which continues to be cherished, and young designers around the world continue to refer to the Eameses as sources of inspiration: Eames furniture continues to be manufactured authentically by Herman Miller, Inc. and Vitra International; Powers of Ten frequently enlivens classes and museums; the Eames House, visited by thousands each year, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, and today’s Eames Office provides educational experiences (including http://www.eamesoffice.com) that celebrate the creative legacy of Ray and Charles Eames. 

In 2008, the United States Postal Service honored the Eameses with a pane of 16 stamps. 

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman came to New York with her family at the age of five from Tel Aviv.  She went on to study music at the High School of Music and Art, literature at New York University and, after college, began to draw. 

After a number of years as an editorial illustrator, she went on to write and illustrate a dozen children’s books, including Hey Willy, See The Pyramids, Max Makes A Million, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John Jay Harvey and What Pete Ate from A-Z.

Kalman worked with her husband, Tibor Kalman (ADC Hall of Fame laureate 2004) at M&Co, the famed interdisciplinary design studio he founded in 1979 which produced a number of products currently distributed by the Museum of Modern Art. 

She now writes and illustrates pieces for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Departure, Culture + Travel and other publications.  Her year-long illustrated column for The New York Times Select called “The Principles of Uncertainty” was compiled and published by the Penguin Press.  Her other clients include Crate & Barrel, Mark Morris Dance Company and Vitra, and she has created fabrics for MAHARAM, accessories for Kate Spade and fabrics for Isaac Mizrahi.

Kalman has received numerous awards and honors, including The New York Times Best Illustrated, The Horn Book Award, The Society of Publication Designers, was a finalist in the National Design Awards, spoke at the TED conference and was the co-founder of the Rubber Band Society.

Kalman teaches design at the School of Visual Arts Graduate Division, and her work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery, New York. 

John Maeda

John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, educator, artist, and computer scientist, and in December 2007 became the 16th president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Maeda’s early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns.  This work helped develop the interactive motion graphics that are prevalent on the Internet today.  He has championed the use of the computer for people of all ages and skills to create art, and is a pioneering voice for “simplicity” in the digital age.  He also initiated the Design By Numbers project, a global initiative to teach computer programming to visual artists through a freely available, custom software system that he designed.

In 1999, Maeda was included in Esquire magazine’s list of the 21 most important people for the 21st century, Fast Company’s 20 Masters of Design in 2004, and the I.D. Forty in 2005.  He is the recipient of the highest career honors for design in the USA (1999 Chrysler Design Award; 2001, National Design Award), Japan (2002, Mainichi Design Prize), and Germany (2005, Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize), and his early work in digital media design is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Since 2001, Maeda’s works of contemporary art have been exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York, and Paris to wide acclaim. 

In 2006, he was awarded the Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award for his efforts in advancing undergraduate education at MIT.

Maeda received both his BS and MS degrees from MIT, and earned his PhD in design from Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design in Japan. In May 2003, he received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  During his 12 years teaching at MIT, Maeda held the E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professorship of Media Arts and Sciences, and was the Associate Director of Research at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he was responsible for managing research relationships with 70+ industrial organizations.  A practicing designer since 1990, he has developed advanced projects for an array of major corporations including Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok, Samsung, among others.

Maeda is the author of four books, including his 480-page retrospective MAEDA@MEDIA (2001, Thames & Hudson).  His most recent book, The Laws of Simplicity (2006, MIT Press), is published in 14 languages and has become the reference work for discussions on the highly elusive theme of “simplicity” in the complex digital world.

R. Roger Remington

R. Roger Remington’s professional education in graphic design was in non-establishment settings, having studied at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in upstate New York and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He considers himself primarily a teacher who has critical interests in design studies (graphic design history, theory and methods), research, writing and graphic design practice. 

His teaching has been acknowledged with receipt of the Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest recognition of teaching excellence.  He currently serves as RIT Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, the first endowed chair in the School of Design.

Since 1982, Remington has been seriously engaged in the research, interpretation and preservation of the history of graphic design.  He co-chaired two major symposia on graphic design history and written books including Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design (MIT Press), Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design (W.W. Norton), American Modernism Graphic Design 1920-1960 (Laurence King Publishers, London/Yale University Press), and Design and Science-The Life and Work of Will Burtin (Lund Humphries).

At RIT, Remington developed the Graphic Design Archive, a unique scholarly project that to preserve and interpret original source materials of 19 Modernist design pioneers such as Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Cipe Pineles, William Golden and Alvin Lustig, among others.  He has developed a number of design history courses at RIT, including “20th Century Information Design” targeted at online learners and “Women Pioneers in Graphic Design.”

Remington is also guest professor at two prominent schools in Germany: the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Bruce Weber

Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1946, and later moved to New York to study film at NYU and photography with Lisette Model at the New School.  He first rose to international prominence in the early 1980s on the success of images that combined classical styling with more visceral underpinnings of desire, mood and sexuality.

His ability to construct a seamless sense of romance and drama created the central public images for fashion houses like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Versace and Abercrombie & Fitch, as well as earning him an enduring presence as a contributor to magazines at the very highest levels in the industry.

Throughout his career, Weber continues to work in various forms – he has directed seven short and feature length films, published more than 21 books and has held more than 60 exhibitions worldwide – extending his lifelong exploration of the nature of human relationships.