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July 20, 2013
Hot potato
Milton Glaser plays with fire for Poppy Records.
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July 20, 2013
Inside the Big Apple
One of the main attractions of the archive as a research tool is as a document of artistic process. (The effect of the overwriting of drafts by computers is a subject I have written about elsewhere.) There were several stages to Milton Glaser’s development of a poster for the Visual Arts Gallery exhibition “Inside the Big Apple” (1968) — the above shows his collage of different versions of the figuration, which arrangement ended up contributing the composition that he used in the final version (other versions and the final poster follow).
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July 16, 2013
Milton Glaser’s geometries
Milton Glaser is closely associated with a visual style emphasizing expressive illustrations and resonant cultural symbols, but revisiting different periods in his career one is reminded that he was constantly developing new approaches, and in the Glaser Collection one can find an astonishingly wide range of approaches to design problems.
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July 12, 2013
Man in the shadows
He wanted to live in a world in which one could find “Gershwin playing all night in penthouses, while George Kaufman fired one-liners into the guests and Harpo scrambled eggs in their hats.” Milton Glaser’s cover, with its punchy color combined with austere but evocative line, seems neatly suited to such a world.
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July 07, 2013
Glaser for RCA Computers
In 1970, Milton Glaser did a series of three posters for RCA’s Computer Division entitled Memory Unbound. They express the abstract promise of technology that was at least a decade away for most people.
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May 17, 2013
Dusty and the Duke
Milton Glaser illustrates the stark contrast between two film stars of 1969 — Dustin Hoffman and John Wayne.
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May 05, 2013
Esquire’s Gift Catalog
Push Pin’s nutty and sweet Christmas Gift Catalog for Esquire exemplifies the eclectic spirit of that studio.
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April 23, 2013
The Sound of…
Milton Glaser’s early album covers express his understanding of the ineffable qualities of music.
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April 15, 2013
Everyday is like Sunday
Milton Glaser’s take on Seurat.
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March 31, 2013
The furniture people of Stanley VanDerBeek
Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was best known as an experimental filmmaker but he was also a gifted painter and sculptor. This undated issue of the Push Pin Graphic features photographs of VanDerBeek’s whimsical creations.
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March 17, 2013
Opera News
In the category of personal favorites go these beautiful Opera News covers, done by Milton Glaser between 1966 and 1970, while he was at Push Pin.
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February 27, 2013
Galeonen Bar, Hamburg
Milton Glaser designed this irregularly-shaped, cut-out menu in 1973 for Galeonen Bar, at the Plaza Hamburg hotel. Their vintage cocktail menu follows.
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February 20, 2013
Love is a sign
Vernacular signage from the first year of the Push Pin Graphic.
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November 21, 2012
Odd bird
Looks like a regular ocellated fellow, with one significant difference. Cross-reference for flowers sprouting from heads: Utopia Records, and this poster for Push Pin Graphic. (Typeface is Glaser Stencil, which appeared on other Poppy productions as well.)
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March 13, 2012
Saturday’s Generation
Are you a member of Saturday’s Generation?
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November 21, 2011
Back in business
The Glaser/SVA Archives staff of two is pleased to announced that our renovation is complete! We have even more room now for researchers and class visits, so drop us a line if you’d like stop by. Most importantly, our collections are back from storage so we’ll return to featuring great stuff from the designers and illustrators in the Archives on Container List.
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July 26, 2011
This won’t hurt a bit
The Archives will be closing to visitors this week in order to prepare for our extreme makeover. When our renovated space re-opens in early September we’ll have much more storage and visitor space. Stay tuned for news of discoveries of pirate treasure maps in the walls, dinosaur bones under the floorboards, and paleolithic cave paintings behind the flat files. Email inquiries are still welcome during the renovation period; our collections will be in storage but we’ll do our best to help.
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May 24, 2011
Stop the presses
Container List is on Twitter! Follow us for new post alerts as well as anything else we find that we think may appeal to you, beloved readers.
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February 11, 2011
Love letter to NY
The piece will be available for free for the next six days at the BBC web site.
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December 21, 2010
Medium rare
Glaser’s fascination with exploded diagrams (this poster for Olivetti, among other things) is applied here to a matter very dear to me: the hamburger. Actually this brings me back to the Sack ‘n’ Save in the suburbs of Dallas, which was the preferred purveyor of hamburger ingredients when I was a child, perhaps because a similar idea was rendered in giant ’70s-oversaturated photographs printed ten feet tall along the hot magenta wall above the butcher section. The illustration above appeared on the second long-player by Philly psych rockers Mandrake Memorial, titled Medium — now a rare find in the bins. Glaser’s influence on the graphic legacy of the hamburger can also be seen on this cover for Time magazine.
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