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Biography
• Born in 1929, New York City,
Hungarian Jewish Family
• High School of Music And Art
• Cooper Union Art School (via a
Fulbright Scholarship)
Graduated in 1951
• Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna,
Italy
Biography
• 1954 Co-founded Push Pin
Studio with Seymour Chwast,
Reynold Ruffins and Edward
Sovel
• 1968 New York Magazine
• 1975 Eventually left Push Pin
Studio to pursue multiple
interests
Awards
• 1992 the Honors Awards from the American Institute of
Architects (A.I.A)
• 1996 The Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, the
St.Gauden’s Medal from The Cooper Union, and the Prix
Savignac for the World’s Most Memorable Poster
• 2004 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• 2009 National Medal of Arts by President Obama
George Salter (1897- 1967)
• German
• Excellent calligrapher & illustrator
• Book Cover Designer
• Taught for nearly 30 years of Cooper
Union
• His designs were signature pieces for
some of the important literary works of
the 20 century
• “He was a man of great integrity and
he was an influential teacher --- so
decent, so nurturing”
…Glaser
Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin
Alexanderplatz (1929)
• Designed in 1977
• Promote tourism in New
York City (later to promote
NY State)
• Design:
 American Typewriter ( a
rounded Slab Serif typeface)
 Innovative Pop-style
• The most internationally
recognizable icon
• 2001 “I love NY” were recreated to
be “I love NY more than ever”
Imitation:
Bob Dylan Poster (1966)
• Historical Background:
– 1960s: Rock ‘n’ Roll rose
– New genre of poster art
– John Berg (Columbia
Records) asked Glaser to
create a poster for Dylan’s
album “Greatest Hits”
Features:
• Shadow of the
face of Bob Dylan
• Similar
composition
Self portrait of Marcel Duchamp (1957)
Features:
• Colourful curly hair
– Invented by Glaser
• Described as “Psychedelic”
– Often associated with rock
posters
– Rock ‘n’ Roll often related to
“Psychedelic”
Features:
• “DYLAN”
– An own invented typeface
by Glaser
– Reused in another poster
for a Mahalia Jackson
concert at Lincoln Center
(1967)
Facts:
• One of the most widely
circulated of all time
• ≥ 6 million were
distributed with the
album
• “I would have redone the hair.
It’s a little clumsy.”
Milton Glaser
• "In 1968, Clay Felker and I
founded New York Magazine,
where I was president and
design director until 1977.
The publication became the
model for city magazines, and
stimulated a host of
imitations." --- Milton Glaser
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