We ❤️ MG
We were incredibly sad to learn of Milton Glaser’s passing on Friday (his 91st birthday).
Milton Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, in the Bronx, to Eugene and Eleanor (Bergman) Glaser, immigrants from Hungary. As a young boy, an older cousin drew a bird on the side of a paper bag to amuse him. “Suddenly, I almost fainted with the realization that you could create life with a pencil,” he told Inc. magazine in 2014. “And at that moment, I decided that’s how I was going to spend my life.”
Milton came up with the iconic I ❤️ NY logo, he was also a founder of New York magazine, designed identities for some of the worlds most recognised brands, and defined the visual language for the music culture of the 1960’s. His influence on graphic design can not be understated. He also had a profound effect on our community, each designer I know that has had the privilege of working, conversing or spending time with Milton found him to be a brilliant, generous, sincere, and thoughtful man. A true luminary.
Credit…Robert Wright for The New York Times
We wanted to acknowledge his passing and share some tributes to a legend of our craft.
- Milton Glaser, Master Designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ Logo, Is Dead at 91 (New York Times)
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Design legend Milton Glaser has died. See 7 of his greatest works (Fast Company)
- Milton Glaser: graphic designer who created the look of the Sixties (The Guardian)
- Obituary: Milton Glaser, pioneering graphic designer and creator of the I ❤ NY logo (It’s Nice That)
Learn more about him, his ethics and his work in these interviews and presentations
- Milton Glaser on his most iconic works and the importance of ethics in design (Creative Boom)
- Milton Glaser’s Hands Have Literally Never Touched a Keyboard (NY Magazine)
- MILTON GLASER | OFFSET 2014
- Milton Glaser: we talk drawing, ethics, Shakespeare and Trump with the graphic design legend (It’s Nice That)
- How to Use Design as a Competitive Business Advantage (Inc)
- Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life (Brain Pickings)
“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”
