About Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts (CDA) publishes innovative children's and lifestyle applications for Apple's iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. Funded in August 2010 with an investment from Silicon Valley's Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, we create meaningful digital experiences that transform the way families connect with media and with each other. With a grant from the Department of Education, CDA is also reinventing learning by creating a platform that builds reading and math skills for children ages two through eight. Our apps have reached the number-one spot in Books and have been featured as App of the Week and among Apple's Best Interactive Story Apps of 2010.
Here's just some of what people are saying about CDA:
"I'm a fan of CDA's passion, commitment to creativity . . . they have really found the tool that will help them share stories and magic with children."
- WIRED, January 13, 2011
"Martha Stewart Makes Cookies . . . is the wave of the future. . . . The app does what cookbooks cannot, providing a better version of everything that came before it."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 24, 2011
"Callaway's New York studio is a snapshot of a book publisher morphing into an app publisher."
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, December 6, 2010
"These folks are genius . . . impressive animation, music, and narration. . . ."
- GIZMODO, May 6, 2010
"When an application such as [Miss Spider's Tea Party] brings parents and children together you know you have transcended."
- MACGASM, April 20, 2010
Ishibashi
Callaway Digital Arts CEO Rex Ishibashi's entrepreneurial career reflects his passion for media, entertainment, and technology. Rex has held various roles at Electronic Arts during two tenures at the company, including leading Business & Corporate Development and co-founding EA.com in the late-90s, and as President of EA Japan. Rex was most recently CEO of Ohai, a next-gen social games company founded out of Sony Online Entertainment and EA. Rex was also part of the early executive teams at WIRED (acquired by CondeNast), Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign), Motricity Mobile (IPO in 2010), and the founder of Originator Media. Rex has advised a number of ventures including Elevation Partners, SecondLife, Chow/Chowhound (acquired by CBS Interactive), Matrix Memory (acquired by SanDisk), Blurb, and MOG.
Callaway
Nicholas Callaway, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder of Callaway Digital Arts, feels he has been destined to become an app developer all his life. Along the way, he has spent thirty years as a print-based publisher, animation producer (the Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends TV series), and creator of lifestyle consumer products brands (Sunny Patch) as the founder of Callaway Arts & Entertainment. He has produced some of the most successful and highest-profile illustrated books of our time, working with such renowned artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Irving Penn, David Kirk, Madonna, and many more.
John Lee is President and Co-founder of Callaway Digital Arts. He was previously Chairman and Co-founder of the Ready-to-Learn Partnership (RTLP), producing new preschool media targeting early reading and literacy skills. John was also Founder and President of Learning Curve International, a $400 million manufacturer and marketer of developmental children's products such as Thomas the Tank Engine wood and die-cast play systems, John Deere toys, Lamaze infant products, and The First Years infant brand. John has served on the board of directors of Kids in Distressed Situations (K.I.D.S.), a leading global charity for children in need, since 1991.
