George Lois (born in 1931) is an award-winning American Art Director, designer, advertising leader and author. George Lois is best known for the legendary and brilliant covers for Esquire Magazine which he produced as Art Director for Esquire from 1962 to 1972. Lois' Esquire covers offered a controversial statement on life in the 1960s with subjects including Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Germaine Greer, and Richard Nixon. In 2008, The Museum of Modern Art exhibited 32 of Lois' 92 Esquire covers.
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything."
