Milton Glaser

Born June 26 1929 -

Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for his "Bob Dylan" poster, the I Love New York logo, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.

Glaser was educated at New York City's High School of Music and Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts), graduated from the Cooper Union in 1951 and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under Giorgio Morandi.

In 1954 Glaser was a founder, and president, of the Push Pin Studios formed with several of his Cooper Union classmates. Glaser's work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality. He uses any medium or style to solve the problem at hand. His style ranges wildly from primitive to avant garde in his countless book jackets, album covers, advertisements and direct mail pieces and magazine illustrations. He started his own studio, Milton Glaser, Inc, in 1974. This led to his involvement with an increasingly wide diversity of projects, ranging from the design of New York Magazine, of which he was a co-founder, to a 600 foot mural for the Federal Office Building in Indianapolis.

Throughout his career he has had a major impact on contemporary illustration and design. His work has won numerous awards from Art Directors Clubs, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators and the Type Directors Club. In 1979 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Israel Museum and the Musee de l'affiche in Paris. Glaser has taught at both the School of Visual Arts and at Cooper Union in New York City.

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• The world health organization's international AIDS symbol and poster, 1987
• Hummingbird - celebrity created holiday cards - world hunger year, 2003
• Bob Dylan with the kaleidoscope hair, poster for CBS records, that was included in the singer's greatest hits album, 1966.
• Glaser stencil™, 1967

Quotes

• "When the new idea emerges from deep of the back of my brain to the front of my brain. it happens any time."
• "it's a tough business,"
• "You have to be amazingly consistent and persistent. You have to work like hell. You cannot become an excellent practioneer without constantly working hard all your life."

Publications

• The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics - by Milton Glaser, Mirko Ilic, Tony Kushner, Rockport Publishers (September 1, 2005)
• Graphic design - by Milton Glaser, De Arbeiderspers (1973)
• Milton Glaser: Art Is Work: Graphic Design, Interiors, Objects and Illustration - by Milton Glaser, Thames and Hudson Ltd (November 13, 2000)

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