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Of the thousands of award-winning designs and projects he has created, Milton Glaser is best known for a select few: the ‘I love New York’ logo, his ‘Bob Dylan’ poster and the ‘Brooklyn Breweries’ logo. He also co-founded the now very famous ‘New York Magazine’. Now, let’s take a deeper look at Milton Glaser’s biography.

Born on June 26, 1929, Glaser began the path to success at the then High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts (Cooper Union Art School) in New York City, graduating in 1951. a scholarship, he then attended the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts from 1952 to 1953.

Although blessed with such a great mind, his work is famous for its simplicity, directness, and originality. With themes ranging from ‘primitive’ to ‘edgy’, he has designed various album covers, book covers, magazine illustrations, print ads, etc. for too many customers all over the world.

Milton Glaser has also founded or co-founded many successful establishments in his lifetime. In 1954, together with his former classmates, he created Push Pin Studios. In 1974, he founded his own studio, Milton Glaser, Inc. With his new studio, he became involved in a wide range of projects. The famous ones are; a huge mural for the federal office building in Indianapolis and the design for his pet project, New York magazine.

In 1983, he collaborated with Walter Bernard to form an editorial design company called WBMG. With many publications vouching for it, this award-winning and highly regarded company is a household name in magazine and newspaper design in the US and even internationally.

With a very long career in graphic design, he has almost become a legend when it comes to contemporary arts. His designs and illustrations are now famous case studies and this has earned him numerous awards from prestigious art clubs, institutions and societies.

Glaser was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1979; he was also made a member of the Graphic Alliance International. In 2009, President Barack Obama awarded him the ‘National Medal of Arts’.

Several of his works are displayed in several leading art museums around the world, including; Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Musee d’L’Affiche de Paris, Israel Museum, etc.

As an icon who strove to pass on her legacy to the younger generation, she has lectured at Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts, both in New York City. The legacies left behind by Milton Glaser are almost too generous to mention, his name almost now associated with graphic design and illustration.

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