Milton Glaser for MGM, 1970
Some background (and forgotten drafts?) of Milton Glaser’s poster for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.

Some background (and forgotten drafts?) of Milton Glaser’s poster for Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
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This amazing LP from 1969 is one of the most beautiful hidden gems in the field of pop arranged singer-songwriters. Originally issued on Poppy Records, home of psych heads The Mandrake Memorial among others, Lightman’s LP deserves to be discovered by all the fans of the soft rock, orchestra arranged sounds. Think of an American reply to the early works of Duncan Browne, Bill Fay, Nick Garrie or even Donovan at his most popsike recordings. Fans of the early Bee Gees will also enjoy this LP! Credit for the arrangements and production goes to the great Ron Frangipane and David Christopher, who is also credited as a co-writer of the albums songs. The album came housed in a beautiful Milton Glaser sleeve (Glaser was the main designer at Poppy at that time) which the Wah Wah reissue respects, and featured an insert with the lyrics which is also reproduced on our reissue. Housed in quality sleeves and pressed in 180 gram thick black vinyl for the delight of the most discriminating audiophiles. Limited to 500 copies!
Milton Glaser’s watercolors for a French edition of Boris Vian’s I Spit On Your Graves.
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.
Another chapter in our series of posts on George Tscherny’s work for Pan Am.
A preview of James McMullan’s upcoming Masters Series show at the Visual Arts Gallery.
James McMullan’s illustrations for Dutton’s paperback box set of The Alexandria Quartet, an ambitious mid-century novel tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell.
Seymour Chwast’s intricate composition of his illustrations.
Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.
James McMullan did stunning work for the short-lived West magazine.
From the James McMullan Collection, a look at some of the best illustrators who got their start the 1950s and 60s.
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.
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.
In the early 1990s, Urban Outfitters fully embraced a retro, anti-consumerist consumerism, snarky and winking – alternative style gone mainstream.
James McMullan colors outside the lines of a self-imposed grid.
For Time magazine, 1970: several versions of Elliott Gould, by Milton Glaser
Mid-century editorial illustration from the pages of Seventeen magazine.
An assortment of Seventeen magazine advertisements from the ’50s and ’60s.