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By: Rachel Lack - Born in 1929, in New York, to Hungarian Jewish immigrants. - Grew up in the , a neighborhood that was home to many Eastern European Immigrants and working class families. - Eugene, Milton’s father, owned a dry-cleaning business and originally was a tailor in his own country. His mother Eleanor was a housewife. - Attended the high school of Music and Art. About - Graduated from in NY (1951). - Married Shirley Girton Glaser (photographer) - Studied graphic design on a full scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. Milton - Studied printmaking with Giorgio Morandi in Italy (1952-1953).

Glaser “My mother felt that I could do anything and convinced me of that, and my father said ‘Show me. We’re not going to waste anybody’s time by you drawing pictures.’

- Milton Glaser Where did it all start?

Milton discovered that life could be created with a pencil. At age 5 he started creating and making things, and never stopped. “I always wanted to be the best designer in the world”

But in many ways, his dream was to change the world through his design. Founding Pushpin Studios Pushpin Studios

- Milton Glaser founded Pushpin Studios in 1954 with Seymour Schwast, Reynolds Ruffins, and . Glaser and Schwast directed Pushpin for 20 years. -By 1960, Schwast and Glaser became increasingly involved with typography and the total design of visual Seymour Edward communications. Schwast Sorel

Reynolds Milton Glaser Ruffins The Team PUSHPIN STUDIOS

Milton Glaser Seymour Schwast Edward Sorel Reynolds Ruffin Graphic Design / Illustration Graphic Design / Illustration Cartoonist / Illustration Illustration Milton Clay Glaser Felker

New York Magazine

-Milton Co-Founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker 1968. -President and Art Director until (1977). -The publication became the model for city magazines. - The Underground Gourmet- a column about cheap restaurants in NY. . Milton Glaser Walter Bernard Firm for public designers The Washington Post (USA) Magazine

O Globo (Rio De Janeiro) Magazine WMBG

La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain) Magazine Milton Glaser Inc. 300 Posters

- Established in 1974 - Print graphics ( logos, stationery, brochures, signage, and annual reports.) - Environmental and interior design. - Poster design for clients in music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for I HEART NY Sesame Place commercial products and services.

600 FT Mural Target Corp Awards

National Design Award (2004) Prix Savignac (1996)

From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for his profound and meaningful He received this Award long-term contributions to the contemporary for the World's Most Memorable Poster practice of design.

National Medal of Arts (2009) Art Director’s Hall of Fame

He was awarded the National Medal Member of the Art Director’s Club Hall of Arts by President of Fame. and Mrs. at the White House Design Pieces

Type Design l Poster Design l Logos Most Popular Works

Mad Men Print Ad (2014)

The imagery plays on recurring themes from the series,”notably the head of a woman and the wine being poured.”

I Heart Ny Logo (1977) Poster (1967)

The convention of Dylan’s hair really The first draft of this logo was a doodle emerged from certain forms that intrigued that Milton made on a recent cab ride. Milton in Islamic painting. He did this entirely pro bono. - Giveaway poster with the album. -Font: Babyteeth Baby Teeth was based on a hand painted sign Glaser Type Design spotted in Mexico. Poster Design

- Milton was heavily influenced by cubism for the first poster, which is composed of a variety of contradictory vantage points.

- Poster for NY Film Fest in 1988.

- Milton’s First environmental poster.

- The worlds health organization’s international AIDS symbol and poster (1987_ Logo Design

Brooklyn Brewery’s logo was informed by classic German beer labels–a conscious move by Glaser to give the upstart brand authority and credibility by linking it to the history of beer making.

Tomato logo was for Tomato Records, and the logo at first glance looks like a logo, but then looks like an old record player.

Milton designed the visual identity for Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, a global non- profit educational outreach organization within Schlumberger Limited, the global oilfield services company.

In 1983, Glaser designed the logo for Elektra Records and it’s subsidiaries- Asylum. If you have to explain it, it ain’t working.

Milton Glaser Milton Glaser | Biography. Accessed September 25, 2017. https://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/.

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