Poster Design - "Milton Glaser" - Chris Nowlan

Poster Design - "Milton Glaser"

Milton Glaser is an American illustrator and graphic designer, where at the age of 13 he began taking life classes with Moses & Raphael Sover in New york, he attended the high school of Music and Art in New York between 1943-6. He studied painting, typography, and illustration at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art between 1948-51, with the aim of becoming a comic strip artist. Drawing remained central to his subsequent career in graphic design. He designs posters, record-sleeves, book illustrations, magazine covers and small advertisements in a witty, inventive style characterized by miscellaneous juxtapositions and revivalist frivolity. From the 1960s and to the mid-1970s Push Pin graphics dominated advertising and the print media, and Glaser’s work became something of a fashionable cult. By the late 1960s his forms had become flatter and more brightly coloured, inspired by Pop and Op art and he restyled a number of American and European journals in this more contemporary manner.

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http://miltonglaserposters.com/index2.html

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.phpcriteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2188&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1