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El Lissitzky was a Russian painter, typographer, and designer, a pioneer of nonrepresentational art in the early 20th century. His innovations in typography, advertising, and exhibition design were particularly...

William Benton was an American publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica (1943–73), advertising executive, and government official. A descendant of missionaries and educators, Benton was greatly influenced...

David Ogilvy was a British advertising executive known for his emphasis on creative copy and campaign themes, and the founder of the agency of Ogilvy & Mather. Ogilvy was the son of a classics scholar...

Charles Saatchi is an Iraqi-born British advertising executive who is perhaps best known as a collector of contemporary art. His brother Maurice Saatchi is a full partner in his advertising concerns. Saatchi...

Albert Lasker was an American advertising executive and philanthropist who is credited with being the founder of modern advertising because he insisted that advertising copy actively sell rather than simply...

William Bernbach was an American advertising executive and copywriter, a pioneer of the subtle, low-pressure advertising that became a hallmark of the agency he helped found, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc....

Mary Wells Lawrence was an American businesswoman who made a mark in advertising during an age when men dominated the field. She cofounded the Wells Rich Greene (WRG) advertising agency, which became noted...

David Carson is an American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s. Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer—ranked...

Chester Bowles was an American advertising entrepreneur, public official, and noted liberal politician. After graduating from Yale University in 1924, Bowles worked for a year as a reporter and then took...

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer noted for his poetic approach to street photography. As a young man Doisneau attended the École Estienne in Paris to learn the crafts involved in the book trade,...

Fairfax M. Cone was a founder and chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding, and one of the preeminent American advertising executives of the 20th century. Cone’s father was a prospector and mining engineer, and...

Leo Burnett was a pioneer American advertising executive who founded a worldwide agency that ranks among the giants of the industry. Burnett was a journalism major at the University of Michigan, who got...

Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic artist, painter, and architect, influential in spreading European principles of advertising in the United States. Bayer was first trained as an architect,...

Herbert Matter was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art. Matter studied with the painters Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant...

Max Bill was a Swiss graphic artist, industrial designer, architect, sculptor, and painter, primarily important for his sophisticated, disciplined advertising designs. Bill’s early ambition was to become...

Francis Wayland Ayer was a U.S. advertising pioneer who founded N.W. Ayer & Son and revolutionized that industry by making the advertising firm an active agent for the advertiser, rather than a middleman...

Gerard Barnes Lambert was an American merchandiser and advertiser who marketed his father’s invention of Listerine mouthwash by making bad breath a social disgrace. After graduating from Princeton and...