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March 22, 2016

Milton Glaser for MGM, 1970

Some background (and forgotten drafts?) of Milton Glaser’s poster for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.

August 28, 2015

Milton Glaser for Creative Newspaper, 1982

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Milton Glaser for Creative Newspaper, 1982

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.

Milton Glaser’s cover for Aaron Lightman’s self-titled LP

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.

January 06, 2015

Welcome back—and to 2015

Students will return to SVA next Monday but we’re back and the archives are reopened already. Here’s Seymour Chwast’s cover design for Time‘s promotional calendar for the academic year 1982–1983.

November 05, 2014

Sample clearance

Another chapter in our series of posts on George Tscherny’s work for Pan Am.

August 23, 2014

Coming soon: James McMullan at the Visual Arts Gallery

A preview of James McMullan’s upcoming Masters Series show at the Visual Arts Gallery.

Coming soon: James McMullan at the Visual Arts Gallery

August 14, 2014

Purple passages

James McMullan’s illustrations for Dutton’s paperback box set of The Alexandria Quartet, an ambitious mid-century novel tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell.

July 25, 2014

Layer upon layer

James McMullan’s layered comic strip illustration.

July 09, 2014

Master strokes

Seymour Chwast’s intricate composition of his illustrations.

June 28, 2014

Robert Weaver at SVA

Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.

June 15, 2014

Go West

James McMullan did stunning work for the short-lived West magazine.

March 31, 2014

Group W

From the James McMullan Collection, a look at some of the best illustrators who got their start the 1950s and 60s.

March 02, 2014

Spot on

James McMullan is best known for his gorgeous posters for Lincoln Center theatrical productions, but he applies the same care to his spot illustrations for The New Yorker theater reviews.

February 09, 2014

Dim sum

The Nom Wah Tea Parlor, the venerable Chinatown dim sum purveyor that uses Milton Glaser’s illustrations on its menu, reopened in time for the Chinese New Year.