Adman George Lois didn’t like “Mad Men,” but he was happy Jon Hamm won the Emmy for his portrayal of Don Draper.
“He’s a really nice kid,” Lois, 84, told me. “He genuflected when he met me.”
Lois’ 11th book — “Lois Logos,” about 300 of the corporate logos he’s designed, from MTV to New York magazine to Aunt Jemima syrup — is being launched Oct. 6 at City College of New York. “The most democratic school in the country,” he said, and the eventual recipient of his archives.
As for “Mad Men,” Lois said, “I hated that f - - king show.” Not so much for all the drinking and smoking, but because “they were all schtupping their secretaries.”
Hamm realized the show didn’t accurately portray Madison Avenue of the ’60s, Lois said. “He understood they were doing a show about scumbags.”