R.I.P. Milton Glaser. You changed the world we live in, and how we perceive it.
I first learned of Milton Glaser when I bought the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits in 1967. I was 14 years old. This poster was folded and inserted next to the record. I hung it in my room that day.
One week ago today Milton Glaser, a giant and a legend of graphic design, died of natural causes at the age of 91. Google him. You'll find dozens of publications and blogs celebrating his amazing life and amazing contribution. I'm going to let Christopher Bonanos, of New York Magazine, a magazine that Glaser co-founded, do the honors.
"If they’re talented and they’re lucky, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture — Leo Fender’s Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. If they’re great, maybe they create two. Milton Glaser, though, operated on another plane — he just kept hitting the bull’s-eye, again and again, throughout his seven decades as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, and visual philosopher and paterfamilias.
"He loved New York City, and celebrated it in multiple ways: with a magazine, with posters, and (most visibly of all) with the three-letters-and-a-red-heart slogan he created. Almost incidentally, he also changed the way you eat."
Article: Milton Glaser, Co-founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91