#ripmiltonglaser

[piksanchez]

Más que su diseño o estilo lo que me gustaba era escucharlo hablar sobre diseño. Se le va a extrañar. Descanse en paz Sr. Glaser. #ripmiltonglaser #depmiltonglaser https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8hOdRj4nS/?igshid=7tc2684yjnxw

[hegrade]

The great master Milton Glaser. Influence for thousands of designers around the world. Passed away today at the age 91.

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[vricasio]

#TBT 2014. The recent passing of Milton Glaser (creator of I ❤️ NY) reminded me of these threads I made for the former Apple Lacrosse store in midtown-Manhattan, back then. While Glaser’s creation is prided by ‘The Empire State’, I wanted this one to really focus solely on ‘The Big Apple’. DID YOU KNOW? Milton Glaser DID NOT charge anything to design the original ‘I ❤️ NY’ thinking that it would never work to promote tourism due to what NY was back in the 70’s. #RIPMiltonGlaser #Lacrosse #Apparel #Design #GraphicDesign #Logo #NYC #ThrowbackThursday #ForArtForLax https://www.instagram.com/p/CCJFcu_B3Pt/?igshid=qb9wsy8w4nds

[artdjgblog]

Various Milton Glaser Posters

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Various Milton Glaser Album Covers

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Various Milton Glaser Logo Designs 

[artdjgblog]

RIP - Milton Glaser, 1929-2020

It’s a cliche, but a safe bet Milton Glaser carved a claim on the Mt. Rushmore of Design and Illustration decades ago. From Push Pin Studios to solo work and beyond, the man was a rare giant with a breadth of talent and humanity to boot. He seemed to exist on another level of playing field, and even claimed to have approached his craft as if seeking the spiritual. Many of my design teachers, inspirations and peers would agree to that mountaintop line-up. I bet non-designers would too. It may be a tall order of hype, but being reminded of his profound body of work this week, I’ve come to liken him to Picasso. Yet, more touchable as Glaser apparently answered every piece of fan mail.

I found my artistic voice (at least a way in which to nurture and cultivate the busy brain bees) signing up for illustration classes on the side at design school. After tussling with screen barriers, and on the cusp of calling it quits, giving myself a double duty emphasis seemed to do the trick. Funny how more work was ultimately less work on my interior. Soon, I was to crawl back into creative childhood cave fantasies - bringing out the marks from within my walls.

During an in-class work session (a 3-hour block of art and exploration time rare to come by these days), my instructor Cedomir quietly hunched over to observe the spread of creative process. After feeling like a misfit disappointment, and the go-to practitioner of his favorite word CLICHE!, I could tell he’d sensed more confidence in me of late. However, he approached any heap of praise with caution per my own private comforts in diving deep with getting hands dirty. I am thankful for this. Still, I never knew what would come out of his mouth.

I don’t always succeed, but I’ve thought about and applied it almost daily the last 20 years as I create. Cedo said many things to me. However, in a thick Bosnian-Ozarkian accent during that particular morning on the 5th floor of a downtown Springfield, MO building he lit a new fire in me, “Good, Danny. But, why not look at Milton Glaser? Everything he makes is different from the previous. He rarely repeats himself, yet it all fits under his umbrella. Try this. DO this. Don’t get too comfortable and concerned with your style.”

It was that same week I curiously plucked and purchased Six Chapters in Design from a Barnes & Noble shelf. The tiny-thick book was (and still is) a hidden treasure chest in the fusion of art and design, something of a design and illustration Bible with chapters covering the following disciples of the discipline: Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka and Henryk Tomaszewski. I still occasionally flip through it with the exact same design school excitement.

These greats made up that Mt. Rushmore of Design & Illustration. Then, more towering talents would soon arrive and illuminate. I also had to buy more shelves to go along with all the books. I began to feel more and more comfortable climbing and carving in their shadows as I did the very best to extend my own coloring in the path ahead. 

I recall a lecture with great designer Art Chantry wink-cheekily referencing Glaser to one of his posters, “What would Uncle Milty do?” I still get a chuckle out of that one! How surreal years later to open a Russian magazine to find I was sharing valuable print real estate with Uncle Milty and his famous logo?! I regret now never having written you about this. RIP. Catch you on the next one.

-djg

Design & Illustration: Milton Glaser / Dylan-Glaser Poster by Woody Pirtle / Various Photos: NA / Magazine Photo: DJG

[somosdesigners]

Hoy nos deja Milton Glaser, una leyenda del mundo diseño gráfico con memorables obras como el icónico I❤️NY o los psicodélicos carteles para Bob Dylan. ¡Hasta siempre, maestro! 😞 #MiltonGlaser #RIPMiltonGlaser #diseñográfico #somosdiseñadores https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8l9otgJ1o/?igshid=1tawb0bn9ta0x