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George Lois, Mad As Hell

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:58:30 -0400

George Lois is nothing if not opinionated. The universally heralded adman and creator of Esquire's most canonical covers from the '60s, shares his take on AMC's Mad Men with The New York Times Magazine's Alex Witchel this week:

When I hear ‘Mad Men,’ it’s the most irritating thing in the world to me. When you think of the ’60s, you think about people like me who changed the advertising and design worlds. The creative revolution...

Mob Hits for April 14, 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:09:49 -0400

Is This Thing On? Time's James Poniewozik put out a call to his readers for their reactions to VH1's Rock of Love. "I'm not really qualified to hold forth on VH1's Rock of Love II, having joined the series for, oh, about the last half-hour of the finale (I won't spoil, don't worry). But it seems like the sort of show that inspires, um, passions, so I'll throw this thread open to your opinions...

Ally Hilfiger: Does Socialite Mean 'Giving Back to the World'?

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:28:39 -0500

After running into Ally Hilfiger, daughter of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and the recent subject of a Page Six Magazine cover story, we decided to ask her how she reacted to the piece.

“My mom’s name is not Sheila; it’s Susie, which is funny, because we kind of laughed about that. But other than that, they really understood where I was coming from and I was really honest,”...

Passing the Gladwell Point

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Before getting into what’s wrong with Malcolm Gladwell, it helps to talk about what’s been right about Malcolm Gladwell. Mr. Gladwell, the nimbus-haired New Yorker reporter specializing in the coverage of ideas, has laid down a significant number of the milestones by which the educated, New Yorker–reading citizen of the year 2006 has found his or her way to this particular moment of socio-cultural existence.

Since January of 1999, for one example, when...

Immature Magazines Borrow; Mature Magazines Pay Homage

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:00 -0400

Left, RADAR (via Gawker); Right, Esquire, April 1968. Update: It turns out that the art director with the balls to rip off George Lois' legendary Esquire cover was none other than... George Lois. (Very sneaky, RADAR!) From a press release just received at Mob HQ:

Radar magazine's Maer Roshan has brought legendary adman and cover designer genius George Lois out of retirement to design the issue's September/October issue, on sale August 16th. [...] "Magazines don't even try to do...