- Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts (born 1949) has been the Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi since 1997. Roberts is a highly-regarded figure in the advertising industry due to his deep insight and creative mind. In September 2006, Saatchi & Saatchi won a US$430 million JC Penney contract because of the idea of "lovemarks", which was invented and promoted by Roberts. Kevin Roberts is currently attending UCLA. - Ted Bates
Theodore Lewis "Ted" Bates was an American advertising executive who founded a famous advertising agency that bears his name. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he attended Phillips-Andover Academy, then graduated from Yale University in 1924. He founded Ted Bates & Co. in 1940. Bates married Evelyn Turull of Havana, Cuba. They had twins, Patricia and Evelyn, whom later on became models. - Jay Chiat
Jacob Morton "Jay" Chiat (October 25, 1931 - April 23, 2002) was an American advertising designer. Chiat was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College, graduating in 1953 and was inducted in its Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2000. He served in the United States Air Force. In 1962, Chiat teamed up with Guy Day to form the Chiat/Day advertising agency in Los Angeles (now TBWAChiatDay). - Frank Lowe
Frank Lowe was a pioneer of the advertising agency. He first rose to fame running Collett, Dickenson and Pearce, which he built into one of the best known agencies in Britain. In 1981, he started Lowe Howard-Spink, which eventually became Lowe & Partners Worldwide. He retired from his eponymous agency in 2003, becoming its Chairman Emeritus. He is the only account manager to have won The President’s Award from the Design and Art Directors Association of London. - Mary Wells Lawrence
Mary Wells Lawrence (born Mary Georgene Berg, 25 May, 1928, in Youngstown, Ohio, United States) is a retired American advertising executive more widely known within her profession as Mary Wells. Mary Wells was the founding president of the Wells Rich Greene (WRG) advertising agency (1966-1990) and the first woman Chief executive officer (CEO) of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. - Billy Davis
Roquel Billy Davis (July 11 1932 - September 2 2004) of Detroit was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Davis is best known as a songwriter for a number of soul musicians label, and as a writer/producer of commercial jingles, mostly for Coca-Cola. Early in his career, Davis worked with an early version of The Four Tops called "The Four Aims", which included his cousin Lawrence Payton. - Raymond Rubicam
Raymond Rubicam (b. June 16, 1892 - d. 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. - James Walter Thompson
James Walter Thompson was the namesake of the JWT advertising agency and a pioneer of many advertising techniques. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1864, while Thompson was serving in the Marine Corps, William James Carlton had started selling advertising space in religious magazines. The agency was called Carlton and Smith although almost nothing is known about the Smith partner. In 1868, Carlton hired Thompson as a bookkeeper. - Ken Kaess
Kenneth Richard Kaess Jr. was CEO of advertising agency DDB Worldwide. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut and raised in Watertown, Connecticut, Kaess graduated from Vassar College. Kaess began in 1977 at Doyle Dane Bernbach, which was later renamed DDB. He left for a vice president/management supervisor position at Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, then went to New World Entertainment, … - Jim Riswold
Jim Riswold (born 1957 in Seattle, Washington) was the creative director for Portland, Oregon based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. He created the advertising campaigns such as the Mars Blackmon (Spike Lee) & Michael Jordan commercials for Nike. He also created the Bo Knows campaign for Nike featuring Bo Jackson, and Tiger Woods juggling golf balls with his club. He retired from Wieden+Kennedy after being diagnosed with leukemia. - James Jordan
James J. Jordan, Jr. was an American publicist and sloganeer. He is best known for his work at the BBDO advertising agency, coining such slogans as "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!", "Wisk beats ring around the collar", and "Zest-fully clean!" A graduate of Amherst College, he would later serve on its board of trustees. He died of a heart attack while snorkeling in the Virgin Islands, aged 73. He was survived by his wife of 46 years, … - J. G. Sandom
J. G. Sandom, often referred to as the "Father of Interactive (Internet) Advertising," founded the world’s first interactive advertising agency, Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), in 1984.. It grew to become the largest digital marketing services firm when it was purchased by DMB&B (MacManus Group) in 1994. Sandom continued to manage EASI on behalf of DMB&B through 1996. - Jack Finney
Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers. Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was given the name John Finney. After his father died when he was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father, but continued to be known as "Jack" throughout his life. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He married Marguerite Guest and they had two children, Kenneth and Marguerite. - Bob Gill
Bob Gill, American illustrator and graphic designer. For his graphic design work, Gill has won a number of awards, sold illustrations to "Esquire", "Architectural Forum", "Fortune", "Seventeen", and "The Nation" magazines and has illustrated children’s books and designed film titles. He played the piano at summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to pay his school tuition. - Len Deighton
Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films, and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his "Bernard Samson" novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, … - Bruce Fairchild Barton
Bruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and politician. Born in Tennessee, he graduated from Amherst College in 1907. He worked as a publicist and magazine editor before co-founding the Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO) advertising agency in 1919. Nine years later the agency merged with the George Batten agency to become Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). Barton headed the agency until 1961, building it into one of the industry's leaders. - Al Parker
Al Parker (1906-1985) was an American artist and illustrator, called the "Dean of Illustrators". His display of talent as a teenager led his grandfather, who was a Mississippi River Pilot, to pay for Al's first year in Washington University's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922. He also played in a jazz band to earn money for tuition. - Carl Crow
Carl Crow (1884-1945) was a Missouri-born businessman and author who opened the first Western advertising agency in Shanghai, China, which he ran for more than 25 years. In the 1930s and 1940s, Crow wrote 13 books, including his story about why he is a Confuciust, entitled "Master Kung: The Story of Confucius" (1937), his anecdotal "The Chinese are Like That" (1938, published under the title "My friends the Chinese" in England), … - Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comic actor. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos. He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press. - Bob Giraldi
Bob Giraldi (born January 17, 1939) is a film and television director who is probably best known for directing the video for Michael Jackson's song "Beat It." Giraldi was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to a working-class Italian-American family. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York on a basketball and baseball scholarship, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. - Austin Briggs
Austin Briggs (August 9, 1908-October 10, 1973) was a cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager. After working for a while at an advertising agency, he became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeding him on Secret Agent Corrigan. In 1940 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on till about 1944, … - J. Brendan Ryan
J. Brendan Ryan is the Chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide (FCB), responsible for all worldwide operations of the advertising agency. Founded in 1873, FCB is the world’s second oldest advertising agency, with operations in 110 countries, and is the largest agency in the United States. FCB clients include Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Kraft Foods, Merck, Samsung, S.C. Johnson and Yum! Brands. Ryan joined FCB in 1991 as President and CEO of FCB New York. - Peter Tomarken
Peter David Tomarken was an American television personality known primarily as host of "Press Your Luck". Born in Olean, New York, Tomarken was the middle son of Barnet and Pearl Tomarken. Barnet and Pearl owned Dee’s Jewelry store in Olean. When Barnet died in 1957, Pearl moved the family to Odessa, Texas and then in 1959 to California. Peter was 15 at the time and later graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1960. - Ben Schott
Ben Schott is a British writer and author of the "Schott's Miscellanies" and "Schott's Almanac" series. Ben Schott was born in North London, England on May 26 1974, the son of a neurologist and a nurse. He has one brother, also now a neurologist. He went to school at University College School, Hampstead – both the junior school in Holly Hill and the senior school in Frognal. - Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1936 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. At an early age, Richard's family moved to Chicago. - Ryan Bonifacino
Ryan Bonifacino (born November 13, 1983 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an advertising executive and celebrity publicist. He is also a partner with the Miami-based brand, Yachtitude. Bonifacino is the CEO of BOZMEDIA, an award-winning PR and advertising agency based in New York City. He has been featured in several articles on entrepreneurship including a high-profile article in Entrepreneur Magazine. - Fred Ludekens
Fred Ludekens was an American artist and illustrator. He was born in Hueneme, California on May 13, 1900, and grew up in California. He worked on fishing boats for awhile, and then moved to San Francisco at the age of 20. Although he had no formal training in art, he found work as a billboard painter. He joined the advertising agency of Lord & Thomas in 1931, and transferred to the company's New York City office in 1939. - Harry Wingfield
John Henry (Harry) Wingfield (4 December 1910 - 5 March 2002) was an English illustrator, best known for his drawings that illustrated the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme (also known as "Peter and Jane") in the 1960s through to the 1980s, which sold over 80 million copies worldwide. Wingfield was born in Denby, near Derby, where his father worked at a glass factory. He grew up in Manchester and Derbyshire. - James Edwin Doyle
James Edwin "Ned" Doyle was an American advertising executive a co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency in 1949. Now known as DDB Worldwide, the agency he founded with Mac Dane and Bill Bernbach bears his initial and is among the largest global agency networks. Doyle owned the Miami Floridians from the end of the 1970 season to the end of the franchise. Doyle died of emphysema in New York City at age 86; was he a smoker. - Don Blanding
Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894-June 9, 1957) was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, illustrator, and speaker. Blanding was born on November 7, 1894, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma (in the period as a territory prior to that state's creation). He trained between 1913 and 1915 at the Art Institute of Chicago. - Alexander Kramer
Alexander Kramer is a movie visual effects technician. Kramer worked on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as the on-set technician for Weta Digital one of the effects companies used for the movie and as a technical director. He works for the Academy Award winning Weta Digital visual effects facility based out of Wellington, New Zealand. Another Alexander Kramer works at conceptplus in Pforzheim - an advertising agency - Theodor Jung
Born in Austria, Theodor Jung (May 29, 1906 - February 19, 1996) was an American photographer, best known for his work with the Farm Security Administration, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Hired for the agency in 1935, when it was still called the Resettlement Administration, he photographed life in the Great Depression. He left the agency the following year and served as photographer for the Consumers Council, another government agency, … - Kari Mannerla
Kari Mannerla was a Finnish board and card game designer. The most famous game designed by Mannerla is the board game Afrikan tähti "(the star of Africa)", the idea of which he began to develop in 1949. The game was published two years later. Mannerla made up the name of the game when reading an article about the biggest diamond in the world, the Star of Africa, been discovered in South Africa. - Anna Rozen
Anna Rozen is a French writer, best known for her short stories. Born at Algiers in 1960, she lived there for two years, but then grew up in France, first in Lorient and later, and for longer, in Toulouse; however she has spent the greatest part of her life in Paris. Before establishing herself as a writer, she worked as an editor, first for an advertising agency and later for television, and she continues to do some television work. - Tom Lingenfelter
Tom Lingenfelter is a teacher, historian, intelligence agent, businessman, and political activist from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He is a perennial candidate for public office and was an Independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. Lingenfelter was born on a farm in then-rural Blair County, Pennsylvania in 1939. - Marc Rapp
Expressing what was once considered inexpressible. Combining things that where previously considered unrelated. - Juho Risku
Juho Risku has been involved with computer systems and programming for more than 20 years. His experience with the RIA space and AJAX technologies dates back to 1997 when he began working extensively with cross-browser DHTML. An active entrepreneur, Mr. Risku started his first company, Visualway Design, an advertizing agency, which is still running strong, at age 20. - Stav Vaisman
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Shakespeare. - Todd
i am no longer torn. i hate summer. its decided. - Aja Peters
I have lived in NYC the last six years. I am defintely getting ready for a change -- just not sure where the next stop will be. I enjoy working hard. I love NYC restaurants and museums...long brunches and walks through the city. I also love heading out to the beach on weekends and far away places when I can get away. Home is Delray Beach -- I try to get there every few months. There's no place like home. I love to laugh.
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