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

Callaway Arts & Entertainment

Callaway Arts & Entertainment is a family entertainment company specializing in the design, production, and publication of illustrated books and multimedia products....

, a publishing firm specializing in the design, production, and publication of illustrated books. Titles include: Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...

: Photographs & Writings, Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...

’s One Hundred Flowers, Irving Penn

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...

’s Passage, Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

’s Sex

Sex (book)

Sex is a coffee table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven Meisel Studio and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron. The book was edited by Glenn O'Brien. Sex was released on October 21, 1992 by Warner Books...

, Diana: Portrait of A Princess, The Art of Make-Up by Kevyn Aucoin

Kevyn Aucoin

Kevyn Aucoin was an American make-up artist and photographer.-Early life:Aucoin was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, to parents Isidore Adrian Aucoin and Thelma Suzanne Melancon, who adopted him as an infant through Catholic Charities of Alexandria, Louisiana He...

, 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 tale

Fairy tale

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s, and OBAMA: The Historic Journey, co-published with The New York Times.

In 1994, the company launched Miss Spider

Miss Spider

Miss Flora Spider is the name of a loving spider in the bestselling Miss Spider children's books by David Kirk. She originally appeared in cartoon format in the movie Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids , which spun off the Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends series , and Miss...

's Tea Party by David Kirk

David Kirk (author)

David Kirk is the creator of the Miss Spider series of children's books published by Scholastic.The Miss Spider books have been adapted to a children's television show called Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, and a video game called Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Harvest Time Hop and...

, 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

Target Corporation

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 stores, and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil...

, 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

Germany

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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 and Mexico

Mexico

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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

Vanity Fair (magazine)

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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