Jefferson Hack | |
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Born |
Jefferson Hack 1971 (age 45–46) Montevideo, Uruguay |
Occupation | Editorial Director, CEO Publisher and Creative Director |
Website | www.jeffersonhack.com |
Jefferson Hack (June 1971) is the maverick CEO and Co-Founder of Dazed Media, an independent media company renowned for producing award-winning stories across its industry leading print, digital and video brands. The company’s portfolio includes some of the world’s most influential titles including luxury fashion and lifestyle bi-annuals AnOther Magazine and Another Man; bi-monthly youth fashion and culture magazine Dazed, and websites Anothermag.com and Dazeddigital.com, in addition to white label creative wing Dazed Media Studio. Hack who has previously served as Editor of these titles is also Co-Founder of global video channel NOWNESS.
In 1991 at the age of 19 Hack founded Dazed with photographer Rankin while a student at London College of Printing. Early cover stars profiled by Hack included Björk,Thom Yorke and David Bowie. In 2001 Hack launched luxury bi-annuals AnOther Magazine which has featured Hollywood cover stars including Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, Jodie Foster, Marion Cottillard and Scarlett Johannson. In 2005 Hack co-founded men’s style bible Another Man. Cover stars have included Joaquin Phoenix, Keith Richards, Tom Ford and Willem Dafoe.
In 2006 Hack launched dazeddigital.com, later launching anothermag.com in 2009.
In 2010 Hack co-founded NOWNESS, an independent luxury lifestyle video channel in partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
In 2013, Hack launched Dazed White Label, the creative agency wing of Dazed Group, which specialises in making digital, video, print, events and social media for brands, and Dazed Vision, the group’s video arm, to develop, produce and commission long-form video content. Dazed & Confused was rebranded as simply Dazed in spring 2014.
Hack has worked with musicians such as Bjork and as creative consultant of U2. In 2015 he worked with Rihanna on a project with Alexander McQueen and AnOther Magazine that resulted in the world’s first digital cover magazine and in 2015 with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld which resulted in the world's first handcrafted hologram fashion magazine cover.