Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser, photographed in 2003
Born	June 26, 1929 (1929-06-26) (age 82) New York City
Nationality	American
Field	Graphic design
Training	Cooper Union Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna
Awards	Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Lifetime Achievement award, 2004 National Medal of Arts, 2009

Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929, in New York City) is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo,^[1] his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo.^[2] He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.

Biography

Glaser was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in New York.^[3] Glaser was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music & 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 He was greatly inspired by his sister's partner, who studied typography at a great depth at the current time.^[4]

In 1954 Glaser was a founder, and president, of Push Pin Studios formed with several of his Cooper Union classmates.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

I Love New York campaign by Milton Glaser.

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. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI).^[4]

Glaser is the subject of the 2009 documentary film To Inform & Delight: The World of Milton Glaser.^[8]

Milton Glaser Inc.

Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974 in Manhattan, and is still producing work in a wide range of design disciplines, including: corporate identities (logos, stationery, brochures, signage, website design, and annual reports), environmental and interior design (exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail environments), packaging (food and beverage packaging), and product design. Some of the firm's current clients include The Brooklyn Brewery, Jet Blue, Target, Coach, Trump, Eleven Madison Park, Alessi, Juilliard, The Rubin Museum of Art, Theatre For A New Audience, The School of Visual Arts, Bread Alone, and Philip Roth, amongst others.

In addition to Milton, this small Manhattan studio employs three designers (Nicholas Pattison, Sue Walsh, and Molly Kromhout) and a studio manager (Scarlett Rigby).

Awards

In 2004, Glaser won a Lifetime Achievement award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.^[9] In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.^[10]

Shows

In addition to commercial enterprises, Milton Glaser’s work has been exhibited world-wide. His most notable single-man shows include:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975)
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1977)
• Lincoln Center Gallery, New York (1981)
• Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York (1984)
• Vicenza Museum (1989)
• Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1989)

In 1991, he was commissioned by the Italian government to create an exhibition in tribute to the Italian artist, Piero della Francesca, for part of the celebrations on the occasion of his 500th anniversary. This show opened in Arezzo, Italy and one year later (under the sponsorship of Campari) moved to Milan. In 1994, The Cooper Union, Mr. Glaser’s alma mater, hosted the show in New York.

In 1992, an exhibition of drawings titled “The Imaginary Life of Claude Monet” opened at Nuages Gallery, Italy, and in 1995, an adapted version of this show was exhibited in Japan’s Creation Gallery. 1995 also brought a Glaser exhibition to the Art Institute of Boston.

In 1997, the Suntory Museum, Japan, mounted a major retrospective of The Pushpin Studios, featuring past and present works by Milton Glaser and other Pushpin artists. In October 1999, Mr. Glaser’s illustrations of Dante’s Purgatorio were exhibited at the Nuages Gallery in Milan, Italy, and Nuages organized a large exhibition of Mr. Glaser’s work during the 2000 Carnevale in Venice.

Mr. Glaser's work is now represented in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the National Archive, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.

Notes

1. ^ McGookin, Steve (2007-09-28). "Fifty Years Of Loss". Forbes. Forbes.com LLC. http://www.forbes.com/leadership/2007/09/28/baseball-omalley-brooklyn-lead-cx_sm_0928dodgers.html. Retrieved 2008-04-26. 
2. ^ Brooklyn Brewery logo
3. ^ [1]
4. ^ ^{a b} http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce/index.jsp?sid0=3&sid1=176
5. ^ [2]^{[dead link]}
6. ^ The ♥ and Mind of Milton Glaser
7. ^ http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/biographies/bio3.html
8. ^ Holden, Stephen (May 22, 2009). "Movie Review: "To Inform & Delight: The World of Milton Glaser"; Artist With His Signature on the City". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/movies/22glas.html. 
9. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Winner: Milton Glaser". Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS/2004/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml. 
10. ^ White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients

See also

• First Things First 2000 manifesto
• Emigre 51: First Things First, 1999. [3]

External links

• Official website
• Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives
• Milton Glaser at TED Conferences
• Works by or about Milton Glaser in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• 'Milton Glaser: to Inform and Delight' - the 2008 Documentary
• Art Is Work A Hillmancurtis short documentary of Glaser
• Magazine Cover: Bob Lape's Restaurant Index
• Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work
• Interview with Glaser
• Pete Hamill on Milton Glaser
• MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES by C. Coy
• Postage stamps by Milton Glaser
• Ahora: Interview with Milton Glaser on Print

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