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.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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