CREATIVE HALL OF FAME

A proud history

The One Club inducted Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, advertising creative Paula Green and director/producer Joe Pytka into the Creative Hall of Fame on January 17, 2012 in New York City. The One Club also initiated an Educator’s Hall of Fame with its first inductee, Robert Lawton from Creative Circus in Atlanta. This historic occasion was celebrated at Gotham Hall with cocktails, dinner and a presentation ceremony chaired by David Lubars, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at BBDO.

Ed McCabe
Inducted: 1974

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Still in his mid-thirties when named into the Creative Hall of Fame (the youngest inductee ever), McCabe began his career by chance at the age of fifteen, when an employment agency sent him to work in the mailroom of McCann-Erickson, Chicago. He came to New York in 1959 to pursue an advertising career, eventually starting Scali McCabe Sloves in 1967. Here he created such memorable work as Perdue Farms' "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," and Volvo's renowned "The roads are strewn with broken promises." In addition to founding McCabe and Company in 1991, McCabe authored a book (Against Gravity) and undertook the Paris-Dakar Rallye, a grueling 8,000 mile car race.