Droga5 founder + creative chairman David Droga inducted to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame

The Art Directors Club, the first global creative collective of its kind and longest standing organisation championing the visual arts, recently announced David Droga, founder and creative chairman of Droga 5, one of the 2012 inductees into its prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.

The new group of laureates, representing advertising, design, filmmaking, illustration, photography and education, will be inducted at a creative black-tie benefit gala held for the first time during Advertising Week in New York–on the evening of Friday, October 5, 2012.

ADC Hall of Fame laureates for 2012 are:

•  Barry Blitt, illustrator

•  David Droga, Founder and Creative Chairman, Droga5

•  Mary Ellen Mark, photographer

•  Kevin O’Callaghan (Educator Award), SVA 3D Design Chair

•  Deborah Sussman, Principal and Founder, Sussman/Prejza

Says Ignacio Oreamuno, ADC executive director: “Walt Disney, Annie Leibovitz, Andy Warhol, Lee Clow, Dan Wieden, Jay Chiat, Alex Bogusky – all incredible legends in our Hall of Fame, who have dramatically altered the industry we work in. This year marks the 92nd year of the Art Directors Club and our Hall of Fame continues to grow with advertisers, designers, educators, artists, photographers and illustrators whose work is quite simply jaw-dropping. This year’s Hall of Fame exhibit will be our most impressive to date, anyone that attends will leave both humbled and inspired.”

Selection Committee on David Droga:

Says Bob Giraldi, film director and owner, Giraldi Media; chair, Live Action Short Film Graduate Department, School of Visual Arts: “In the long history of ad agency brilliance-successful writers and outrageously distinctive art directors have ruled the land. And now, add the name; David Droga, to that list as this truly independent and innovative agency thinker rightfully takes his place as one of the creative geniuses of the modern marketing world.”