At the 2010 Creative Hall of Fame Ceremony, The One Club will honor two individuals for their commitment and excellence in advertising and design: Mike Hughes, president/creative director of The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va., and the late Saul Bass, a legendary graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker. The induction ceremony will take place at The Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
“The 2010 inductees both add tremendous prestige to the Creative Hall of Fame. Mike Hughes’ 28-year creative leadership of The Martin Agency has propelled the agency from a regional creative shop to one of the top agencies in America. Saul Bass created a visual language for film titles as a new art form. It is appropriate to induct both a copywriter and a designer to the Creative Hall of Fame,” said Mary Warlick, CEO of The One Club.
Hughes
Mike Hughes has spent most of his career at The Martin Agency, where he started as a copywriter and rose to his current position as president and creative director. Once famous mainly for its powerful print advertising, The Martin Agency today is a force in all media, traditional and new, with a particular strength in bringing not-so-everyday thinking to everyday products for everyday people. Hughes is especially proud of the agency’s well-known supportive culture. He was deeply involved in the founding of the VCU Brandcenter, where he’s been the only board chairman the school’s ever known. Mike Hughes joined The Martin Agency in 1978 and is currently president/creative director. He is known for work for such brands as Walmart, UPS and GEICO.
“I want us to be known for two things: outstanding strategic ideas and brilliant creative executions. One of the reasons this is such an exciting time to be in this business is that those ideas and executions aren’t limited to traditional media ads. We’re better than ever at building brands and sales on all kinds of platforms — and we’re proving remarkably adept at wielding our strategic and creative abilities beyond anything that resembles advertising,” said Hughes.
Bass
During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst Bass’ most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict’s arm for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.
Bass designed the sixth AT&T Bell System logo. He also designed AT&T’s “globe” logo after the breakup of the Bell System. Bass also designed Continental Airlines’ 1968 “jetstream” logo, which became the most recognized airline industry logo of the 1970s.
Lineage
For more than 40 years, the Creative Hall of Fame has paid tribute to advertising’s most brilliant minds whose unwavering creativity and commitment to excellence have raised standards in their industry. Membership in the Creative Hall of Fame represents a lifetime achievement. Several Creative Hall of Fame members were also featured in The One Club’s award-winning documentary film, Art & Copy.
The Creative Hall of Fame grew out of the Copy Club Hall of Fame, and its first honoree was Leo Burnett, inducted in 1961. Other notable Creative Hall of Fame members include David Ogilvy (1963), Bill Bernbach (1964), Ed McCabe (1974), Howard Gossage (1970), Jay Chiat (1994) Lee Clow (1997) and Hughes’ mentor at The Martin Agency, Harry Jacobs (2001). The 2005 inductees were Cliff Freeman, John Hegarty and the late Diane Rothschild.
Tim Delaney from Leagas Delaney in London is 2010 Creative Hall of Fame chairman.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More