Milton Glaser
Designer, Illustrator
About
American graphic designer and illustrator, co-founder of Pushpin Studios and New York magazine, and creator of the I Love New York identity. His practice encompassed posters, publications, identities and environmental design, alongside writing and teaching about the responsibilities of design.
SourceSelected articles & interviews
Milton Glaser: Art Works
A recorded conversation, with transcript, about Glaser's education, visual thinking and the purpose of art.
In their own words
The designer’s role is the role of good citizenship.
Articles & interviews8
- Maggie Walsh on Strategy, Creativity, and Building Brand Fandoms
Steven Heller memorializes designer, author, editor, and educator Steven Brower, who died at age 74. The article highlights Brower's work as PRINT's creative director, his illustration-editing role at The Nation, his book-jacket design, teaching at Marywood University, and his extensive work documenting graphic design, comics, and American cultural history.
- Forchewn Launches Sustainable Single-Serve Instant Coffee
Steven Heller highlights a little-known 1957 menswear catalog cover designed by Milton Glaser for Portland retailer Rosenblatt's. The article notes that the cover was atypical of Glaser's later work and situates it within the history of Rosenblatt's, a highly regarded menswear store known for artistic window displays and meticulous merchandising.
- New York Botanical Garden’s Flower Power Revives Sixties Art and Activism