News Summary

• Art Paul was a former Chicago Bauhaus-influenced artist and self-taught art director.
• He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 1986.
• Paul was initially reluctant to join the fledgling magazine.
• Hefner seduced him with promises.
• The original inspiration for the magazine, came from the 1920s and 1930s and Esquire of the 1930s.
• The magazine was an attempt to recapture the fantasy of my adolescence, he says.
• Even he was not pleased with the concept, but he embraced it.