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August 28, 2015
Milton Glaser for Creative Newspaper, 1982
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August 04, 2015
65 Self-Portraits
65 Self-Portraits is one of the best documented of the remarkable series of exhibitions organized by Shirley Glaser while she was director of SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery, 1964-1969.
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July 21, 2015
Milton Glaser’s cover for Aaron Lightman’s self-titled LP
Milton Glaser designed this LP sleeve for Poppy Records’ original issue of Aaron Lightman’s debut album.
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May 21, 2015
Milton Glaser’s Boris Vian
Milton Glaser’s watercolors for a French edition of Boris Vian’s I Spit On Your Graves.
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December 10, 2014
Portraits of Pnin
Several incarnations of Vladimir Nabokov’s most lovable protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin.
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November 24, 2014
Pop pourri, part 2
Reader Don O’Hara sent us a few additional iterations of the Jem “Classic Series” we featured last week.
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November 19, 2014
Pop pourri
Milton Glaser was hired by Deluxe Communications Corporation/Jem to design a set of LP sleeves for oldies releases they called The Classic Series.
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November 13, 2014
Skeleton key
Forever potent and still open to interpretation despite its ubiquity, the skeleton has surfaced many times in the early work of Milton Glaser.
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October 21, 2014
Chinese Grocery
Really a sister project of Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder’s Underground Gourmet column for New York magazine, Glaser’s “Chinese Grocery” poster sought to guide the uninitiated through a Chinatown market, in this case the no longer extant United Supermarket at 84 Mulberry Street.
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September 21, 2014
Go ask Alice
In 1967, Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and James McMullan produced psychedelic “travel” posters for an issue of The Push Pin Graphic.
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August 29, 2014
Story arc
Milton Glaser got minimal for SVA’s 40th Anniversary logo.
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August 17, 2014
Type cast
Some type-based design from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
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August 01, 2014
All together now
Shades of Yellow Submarine in Gian Carlo Menotti’s sci-fi opera for children Help, Help, The Globolinks!
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June 08, 2014
Don’t it drag on
Milton Glaser teamed with celebrated photographer Duane Michals in 1972 to create this metaphysical album cover for bluesy folkie Chris Smither.
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May 31, 2014
The Elementary Doctor Watson
Milton Glaser created this album cover in 1972 for legendary guitarist and folk singer Doc Watson.
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May 09, 2014
Cross-hatch
Milton Glaser explored an undersea terrain for Sports Illustrated in 1961.
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March 30, 2014
For the pleasure and edification of all
Before Push Pin Studios, before the Push Pin Graphic, there was the Push Pin Almanack.
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March 23, 2014
Milton’s menus, part 3: return to Subseries G
Descending into Series II, Subseries G, we take another look at some of Milton Glaser’s logos and menus for restaurants.
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March 21, 2014
Childcraft
In 1970, Childcraft Education Corp. turned to Milton Glaser to design their flagship store at 150 E. 58th Street.
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March 16, 2014
The Cook
Milton Glaser created this 1965 book jacket for The Cook, a satirical horror novel about a mysterious chef, Conrad Venn, who seduces and manipulates the wealthy Hill and Vail families with food.
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