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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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