Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser was born on June, 26 , in 1929. He is a famous American Graphic Designer well known for the "I Love New York" logo, his " Bob Dylan" poster and the "Brooklyn Breweries" logo. He was educated at New York City's High School of Music and Arts and graduated in 1951. From 1952 to 1953 he attended the academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy with a scholarship.
In 1954 with his formers course mates he set up Push Pin studios. In 1968 Glaser and Clay Felker founded a New York magazine. Glaser was the president and the design director until 1977. The publication became the model for city magazines, and stimulated a host of imitations. Later, in 1974 he started his own studio named, Milton Glaser Inc.

The Studio

Milton Glaser Inc. was created in 1974. It has a variety of design elements such as identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes and logos. He designed more than 300 posters, environmental and interior design exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels and other retail and commercial environments.

Exhibitions

Milton Glaser’s work has been exhibited world-wide. Most notable are the following exhibitions: a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1977), as well as the Lincoln Center Gallery, New York (1981), and Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York (1984). In 1989, Mr. Glaser had many exhibitions in Italy. One was a one-man show of posters at the Vicenza Museum, and another, "Giorgio Morandi/Milton Glaser," at the Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. In 1991, he was commissioned by the Italian government to create an exhibition in tribute to the Italian artist, Piero della Francesca, for part of the celebrations on the occasion of his 500th anniversary. This show opened in Arezzo, Italy and one year later (under the sponsorship of Campari) moved to Milan. In 1994, The Cooper Union, Mr. Glaser’s alma mater, hosted the show in New York. In 1992, An exhibition of drawings titled "The Imaginary Life of Claude Monet" opened at Nuages Gallery, Italy, and in 1995, an adapted version of this show was exhibited in Japan’s Creation Gallery. 1995 also brought a Glaser exhibition to the Art Institute of Boston. In 1997, the Suntory Museum, Japan, mounted a major retrospective of The Pushpin Studios, featuring past and present works by Milton Glaser and other Pushpin artists. A major retrospective of his work opened in February, 2000 at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.