Milton Glaser is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He has the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou. In 2004 he received the lifetime achievement award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter, Giorgio Morandi. In 2010 Glaser was awarded the National Medal of Arts, he is the first graphic designer to receive this award.
Aside from this array of awards and accolades, Glaser is the man that brought us the globally famous ‘I heart New York’ logo.
Glaser worked on this project on a pro bono basis as it was originally supposed to run for a couple of months in the mid-1970s. However it proved so incredibly popular that the logo stayed and has now been appropriated across the world.
If you want to hear a little more about Milton Glaser, Debbie Millman interviewed the great designer for Design Matters. It is about 1 hour long, but if you really love Milton Glaser, it will be too short:
Milton Glaser Podcast Interview: Observer Media: Design Observer.
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