Milton Glaser
| Milton Glaser | |
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Glaser in 2003
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| Born | June 26, 1929 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
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| Known for | Graphic design |
| Spouse(s) | Shirley Girton Glaser (ca. 1956 – present) |
| Awards | Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Lifetime Achievement, 2004 National Medal of Arts, 2009 |
| Website | MiltonGlaser.com |
Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is an American graphic designer. His designs include the I ♥ NY logo,[1] the psychedelic 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.
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Biography
Glaser was born in New York City. He graduated from Cooper Union. Ιn 1954 he co-founded Push Pin Studios, along with fellow Cooper grads Edward Sorel, Seymour Chwast, and Reynold Ruffins. Glaser and Chwast directed Push Pin for twenty years, while it became a guiding reference in the world of graphic design.[3]
Glaser's work is displayed in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Glaser is the subject of the 2009 documentary film To Inform and Delight: The World of Milton Glaser.[4]
Awards
In 2004, Glaser won a National Design Award Lifetime Achievement from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.[5] In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.[6]
References
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- ↑ Brooklyn Brewery logo
- ↑ Pushpin Group website, accessed June 6, 2008.
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- ↑ White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients
External links
- Articles with hCards
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1929 births
- Living people
- AIGA Medalists
- Album-cover and concert-poster artists
- American graphic designers
- American illustrators
- American magazine founders
- American magazine publishers (people)
- American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
- Cooper Union alumni
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
- Fulbright Scholars
- Jewish artists
- Logo designers
- National Design Award winners
- New York (magazine)
- People from New York City
- United States National Medal of Arts recipients
