Nicholas Callaway

Nicholas Callaway is an app producer, publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer. He is the chairman and chief creative officer of Callaway Digital Arts, which publishes premium lifestyle and children’s applications for Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod family of products.

In 1980, Nicholas Callaway founded Callaway Arts & Entertainment, a publishing firm specializing in the design, production, and publication of illustrated books. Titles include: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, Georgia O'Keeffe’s One Hundred Flowers, Irving Penn’s Passage, Madonna’s Sex, Diana: Portrait of A Princess, The Art of Make-Up by Kevyn Aucoin, A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and its Aftermath, a series of children's books by Madonna, the Callaway Classics series of fairy tales, and OBAMA: The Historic Journey, co-published with The New York Times.

In 1994, the company launched Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk, which has sold 5 million copies worldwide. Subsequently, Nicholas Callaway and David Kirk founded Callaway & Kirk Company LLC, which is dedicated exclusively to the creations of David Kirk, including the Miss Spider and Nova the Robot book series, the Sunny Patch line of children's lifestyle products at Target stores, and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, a 3-D computer-animated television series that airs daily on Nick Jr. in the US and also in several other countries around the world, including Germany, Indonesia and Mexico.

In August 2010, with an investment from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, Nicholas Callaway founded Callaway Digital Arts (CDA) with the idea to transform the media landscape with interactive apps for the iPad generation. As the lines between traditional media converge, CDA is redefining the story, play and “how to" content experience with products that constitute a new medium. CDA’s apps include Martha Stewart Makes Cookies, Miss Spider’s Tea Party (for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch), Miss Spider’s Bedtime Story (for the iPad), Sesame Street’s The Monster at the End of This Book, Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue, and (RED): The Lazarus Effect.

Callaway Digital Arts was also a recipient of the U.S. Department of Education's 2010 Ready-to-Learn Grant. Using the funds from this grant, CDA is developing transmedia properties to enhance early learning for all young children with special emphasis on those who are socio-economically disadvantaged and/or English Language Learners.

Nicholas Callaway is a Harvard alumnus and has been published in Departures magazine and Vanity Fair.

External links

• His website
• Nicholas Callaway article from The New York Sun, April 19, 2005 on the Business section
• Bringing Art to the Masses How Madonna and Miss Spider made Ely Callaway's son a success article from Fortune Small Business, December 2003
• Interview With Nicholas Callaway CNN Sunday Morning aired September 14, 2003
• Nicholas Callaway article from Graphis, March/April 2001
• Toying Tycoon article from The Village Voice, January 13 - 19 January 1999
• Nicholas Callaway, book publisher article from Print, March-April 1998

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