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April 13, 2021
Pizza Piazza
Milton designed the logo for Pizza Piazza, a long-gone but beloved restaurant that was located at 785 Broadway at 10th Street.
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April 05, 2021
Paperbacks USA
In 1961, Milton Glaser designed the Call for Entries for the Paperbacks USA exhibition from AIGA.
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March 22, 2021
Sammontana Gelato
In 1981 Milton Glaser redesigned the logo for Sammontana, an Italian ice cream company based in Empoli.
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March 02, 2021
Monsanto Nights
In 1968 and 1969, Glaser drew Barbra Streisand, Sophia Loren, Pearl Bailey and Carol Channing for advertisements announcing Monsanto Nights, a series of popular TV specials sponsored by the sprawling chemical company Monsanto.
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February 11, 2021
Lee Savage
Lee Savage was an accomplished realist painter, a successful art director and animator, and Milton's co-creator for the legendary "Mickey in Vietnam.
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February 02, 2021
The Other Bob Dylans
Milton Glaser’s 1996 poster of Bob Dylan became one of his most iconic works and represented peak Push Pin style. But Glaser later produced two more portraits of Dylan that sharply diverged from the thin curvilinear lines and flat color of his best-known work.
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January 11, 2021
Lillian Roxon's Discotique
Lillian Roxon, the trailblazing Australian music journalist and author of the massive Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia (1969) was a rich subject for any artist.
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December 02, 2020
Letter Perfect
Milton Glaser created three postage stamps for the tiny republic of San Marino in 2016.
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November 02, 2020
Milton and Morandi
The year Milton Glaser spent studying etching with Giorgio Morandi in Italy was a pivotal time in his art education.
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October 19, 2020
Milton Glaser's Prime Time
For an article on returning to the site of the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines, Glaser painted a muted and downcast soldier emerging over a vivid landscape.
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October 05, 2020
It's a Bottle of Fun
Milton Glaser's cheerfully psychedelic ads for Fanta are the natural culmination of Push Pin's psychedelic style.
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September 22, 2020
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Milton Glaser's first paying job was the cover of a crime fiction magazine.
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June 30, 2020
Milton Glaser for Olivetti
Around the same time Milton Glaser and Push Pin Studio's style was taking hold and permeating popular culture, Milton was doing transformative and awesomely weird work for typewriter company Olivetti.
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June 27, 2020
Milton Glaser 1929-2020
We mourn the loss of Milton, an artist, a teacher, a New Yorker, a man who changed our visual culture.
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February 19, 2020
Get To Know the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives
A video introduction to our collections.
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November 20, 2019
Milton's California Dream
We talked to Milton about his 1969 assignment to illustrate the cover of Time magazine.
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July 01, 2019
Milton Glaser's Early Book Covers
Milton Glaser's early book covers, done not long after he founded Push Pin Studios with Seymour Chwast, served as a kind of laboratory for the techniques and styles he was exploring in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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February 16, 2016
Delpire
Robert Delpire and Push Pin Studio’s mutual admiration resulted in exhibitions in both New York and Paris.
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October 28, 2015
Identified Flying Objects
Milton Glaser’s surreal landscapes for Hangar Design Group.
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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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