The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), the premier organization for creatives in integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.
The newest group of laureates, representing advertising, design, filmmaking, illustration, photography and education, will be inducted at a creative black-tie benefit gala on November 10, 2011 in New York, with proceeds going toward ADC education programs.
ADC Hall of Fame laureates for 2011 are:
• Ruth Ansel, art director, editorial design
• Marshall Arisman, painter, illustrator, chairman of the M.F.A. degree program, School of Visual Arts (Educator Award)
• John C. Jay, partner, executive creative director, Wieden+Kennedy
• Joe Pytka, filmmaker, commercial director
In addition, Paola Antonelli, senior curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will receive the ADC Manship Medallion in special recognition of curatorial excellence.
ADC established the Hall of Fame in 1971 as a 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, Matthew Carter, Jay Chiat, Walt Disney, Charles and Ray Eames, Louise Fili, Milton Glaser, Annie Leibovitz, George Nelson, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Cipe Pineles, Paul Rand, Paula Scher, Andy Warhol and others (for the complete list, please visit www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/).
“Hall of Fame pays lasting tribute to those whose careers have profoundly influenced the direction of their fields,” said Olga Grisaitis, director, ADC. “This recognition honors an ongoing lifetime of achievement that exemplifies the highest standards of creative excellence and leads the industry forward. Our goal is to capture the history of our industry in the accomplishments of these laureates.”
The 2011 ADC Hall of Fame Selection Committee was co-chaired by ADC board members Janet Froelich, creative director, Real Simple and an ADC Hall of Fame laureate, and Anthony Rhodes, executive vice president, School of Visual Arts. The full selection committee included Ed Brodsky, ADC advisory board member, founding partner, Lubell/Brodsky; Kathleen Creighton, ADC member, chair, Communication Design, Pratt Institute; Steff Geissbuhler, ADC member, partner, C&G Partners; Kurt Haiman, ADC advisory board member, founder, g2 Branding & Design; Ann Harakawa, ADC board member, principal and CEO, Two Twelve Associates; Rei Inamoto, ADC first vice president, global creative director, AKQA; Doug Jaeger, ADC board president, partner, JaegerSloan, Inc.; Paul Lavoie, ADC past president and advisory board president, chairman, Taxi; George Lois, ADC advisory board member, ADC Hall of Fame laureate; Richard Wilde, ADC advisory board member, ADC Hall of Fame laureate and chair, Advertising and Graphic Design Department, School of Visual Arts.
ADC celebrates its Hall of Fame with a series of events this fall at the ADC Gallery in New York. In addition to the gala induction dinner on November 10, speaker events featuring the 2011 ADC Hall of Fame laureates will be held that month, dates and details to be announced soon. An exhibition of work by these latest laureates will also be on display and open to the public free of charge at the ADC Gallery.
Bio information for 2011 ADC Hall of Fame laureates
Ruth Ansel
Ruth Ansel, art director, designer, and lecturer, has collaborated for over four decades with photographers, illustrators and artists such as Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Peter Beard, Bruce Weber, and Annie Leibovitz. She was the youngest co-art director of Harper’s Bazaar magazine in the 1960s, and went on to art direct The New York Times Magazine in the 1970s, House & Garden and Vanity Fair in the 1980s, and Vogue. During that period, she also created film titles for the cult film My Dinner with Andre, directed by Louis Malle.
While art directing magazines, she also designed the celebrated books, Alice in Wonderland, a book about a play, photographed by Richard Avedon, and the 1974 edition of The End of the Game by Peter Beard. In the early 90’s, she formed her own design studio, where she continued to design other notable book projects including Dark Odyssey by Phillip Jones Griffiths,The Sixties by Richard Avedon, Women and The White Oak Dance Project by Annie Leibovitz, as well as a master monograph for Taschen by Peter Beard. She continued to work closely with Avedon and designed significant portfolios of his work for The New Yorker, including his photographs for Egoiste magazine in Paris. Her studio has also designed ad campaigns for Versace, Club Monaco and Karl Lagerfeld.
In 1970, Ansel has received the Art Directors Club’s highest individual award for her work, the Gold Medal for Design, and was honored with a special tribute in 1994 from the Society of Publication Design Award for Continuing Excellence in Publication Design. She has been a guest lecturer at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, and been on fashion and design panels at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In the fall of 2010, Rizzoli published a book she art directed on the fashion work of photographer Jerry Schatzberg.
HALL OF FEMMES, a book about Ruth and her celebrated 40-year career, was published in 2010. It features an extensive interview with her, and includes examples of her editorial and advertising design work. Personal pictures featuring many of her close colleagues were published for the first time in the book, together with her views on everything from photography to the business of image-making.
Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelli is senior curator, Department of Architecture & Design of The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 1994. Through her exhibitions — among them “Design and the Elastic Mind” in 2008 – teachings and writing, she strives to promote a deeper understanding of design’s transformative and constructive influence on the world. Antonelli is very proud of a recent acquisition into MoMA’s Collection: the @ sign. She is working on several exhibition ideas, including the upcoming “Talk to Me”, and on the book Design Bites, about basic foods taken as examples of outstanding design.
Marshall Arisman
The paintings and drawings of Marshall Arisman have been widely exhibited both internationally and nationally, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the New York Historical Society and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Guang Dong Museum of Art, Telfair Museum of Art, as well as many private and corporate collections.
His illustrations have appeared on the covers of Time, U.S. News & World Report, The Nation, The Progressive and The New York Times Book Review, and his editorial work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, The New York Times Op-Ed page, The Village Voice and Business Week.
Among his books is The Cat Who Invented Bebop (winner of the bronze medal by ForeWard magazine Book of the Year Award) published by Creative Editions. He has co-authored four books with Steven Heller: The Education of an Illustrator, Inside the Business of Illustration, Teaching Illustration and Marketing Illustration (all published by Allworth Press).
In 1999, Arisman was the first American invited to exhibit in mainland China when his Sacred Monkeys exhibition appeared at the Guang Dong Museum of Art. He is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled Facing the Audience, The Arts of Marshall Arisman, which received the Creative Achievement Award from the 2002 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Hs is currently chairman of the M.F.A. degree program, Illustration as Visual Essay, at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
John C. Jay
John C Jay serves as global executive creative director and is a partner at Wieden+Kennedy. He works with Dan Wieden to oversee all global creative work with a focus in recent years on the agency’s expansion in Asia with the Tokyo, Shanghai and New Delhi offices. In 2004, Jay also founded W+K Tokyo Lab, the independent DVD music label that has launched more than a dozen albums and a new mobile technology distribution.
Jay also operates Studio J in Portland’s old Chinatown, a consultancy which creates new lifestyle products and concepts. In 2009, Studio J concepts include products exclusive for the Ace Hotels, new home design with architect Brad Cloepfil and opened PING, a new restaurant across the street from the studio.
He is a regular contributor to international publications and blogs including Honeyee.com in Tokyo and “The Moment” for The New York Times Style Magazine website. Jay writes on international culture including art, music, fashion and design.
Previous to Wieden+Kennedy, he was both creative director and marketing director for Bloomingdale’s in New York. He created the Jay Scholarship at Ohio State University’s College of Arts to help support students of Asian descent to explore studies and a career in the creative field.
Joe Pytka
Joe is a dominant force and creator of some of the best and most well-known television commercials ever made.
He began his career at WRS Motion Picture and Video Lab in Pittsburgh, where he became well versed in editing, shooting, and recording techniques for the fledgling Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) in the 1960s and 70s. The director started shooting shows for WQED and working on documentaries in various capacities, including Steeltown Blues, Maggie’s Farm, and a documentary on air pollution narrated by Orson Welles, and shot a forerunner to music videos called High Flying Bird, featuring Steve McQueen in a four-wheel-drive truck traveling Mexican landscapes. Soon, he began shooting commercials to finance the documentaries.
When Pytka’s commercial work caught the eye of a San Francisco based rep, it was a major turning point in his life. “I had done these documentaries that were fairly emotional, but which I had to manipulate to get my point across. I wanted to get to that point in my commercial work, working with real people in real situations,” he said. “At the time, no one was doing it, other commercials were real theatrical. For a few years in Pittsburgh, I was doing these commercials for a local brewery where we’d go somewhere with real people – and they were very successful.”
Today, Pytka has directed more than 5,000 commercials for some of the world’s largest corporations, and earned many awards and nominations including three Directors Guild of America Commercial Direction Awards and 15 nominations, the most for that category. Over the past three decades, his stylized images have wedged themselves into the American consciousness, and his commercials for clients such as Budweiser, Pepsi, McDonald’s and NFL have aired more than 30 times during the Super Bowl telecast.
The “magic” that Pytka gets is a variation of fellow Western Pennsylvanian James Stewart’s description of his own value of filmmaking: creating “little pieces of time” that people remember.
Those include Madonna’s infamous Pepsi commercial, “Make a Wish,” a frying egg demonstrating “This is your brain on drugs”; Ray Charles’ “Uh-huh” for Pepsi; an archaeology dig discovering a Coke bottle for Pepsi; Larry Bird and Michael Jordan doing “Nothing but Net” for McDonald’s; Bo Jackson’s “Bo knows” for Nike; chimpanzees yelling out famous movie lines, like, “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!” for HBO, and Ed and Frank of Bartles & James saying, “thank you for your support.” There’s a husband and wife in bed whispering sweet nothings in Donald Duck voices for Disney, Cindy Crawford’s famous Pepsi commercial, a public service announcement promoting child hunger-awareness, “Ketchup Soup,” and following 9/11, his New York City Miracle spots featuring Woody Allen ice skating and Henry Kissinger sliding into home plate at Yankee Stadium.
As a filmmaker, Pytka directed Let It Ride starring Richard Dreyfuss, and the hit Space Jam with Jordan and Buggs Bunny. He’s also made music videos such as The Beatles “Free as a Bird”, John Lennon’s “Starting Over”, Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diane” and “The Way You Make Me Feel”.
The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org) is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funded, not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to connect creative communications professionals around the globe, and to provoke and elevate world-changing ideas. It focuses on the highest standards of excellence in communications for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.
