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Milton Glaser, an American designer, was born in New York City on June 26, 1929. He was educated at the High School of Music and Art, New York (1944-47); The Cooper Union Art School, New York (1948-51); and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy (1952-53). In 1954, he and a number of classmates founded Pushpin Studios. For twenty years Glaser, together with Seymour Chwast, directed the organization, which exerted a powerful influence on the direction of world graphic design, culminating in a memorable exhibition at the Louvres Museum of Decorative Arts.

In 1968, Glaser and Clay Felker founded New York Magazine, where he was president and design director until 1977. The publication became the model for city magazines, and stimulated a host of imitations. In 1983, Glaser teamed with Walter Bernard to form WBMG, a publication design firm also located in the city. Since its inception, WBMG has redesigned the following magazines: L’Espresso (Rome), Alma (Paris), Rizzoli’s Journal of Art, Magazine Week, The Washington Post, La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Manhattan, Inc., Family Circle, Adweek, U.S. News, The New York Law Journal, Fortune, Barron’s, Lire, The Village Voice, l’Expresso, Jardin des Modes, Modern Maturity, Money and The Nation, as well as numerous others. Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974. The work produced at this Manhattan studio encompasses a wide range of design disciplines. In the area of print graphics, the studio produces identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes — including logos, stationery, brochures, signage, and annual reports. In the field of environmental and interior design, the firm has conceptualized and site-supervised the fabrication of numerous products, exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and commercial environments. Glaser is also personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services.

Mr. Glaser’s graphic and architectural commissions include the I&heart;NY logo (which has been described as ‘the most frequently imitated logo design in human history’), commissioned by the state of New York, 1976; the design of a 600-foot mural for the New Federal Office Building in Indianapolis, 1974; the complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center, New York, as well as the design of the Observation Deck and Permanent Exhibition for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1975. He has also designed a number of architectural projects including Sesame Place, a children’s educational play park in Pennsylvania, 1981-83. For a period of fifteen years, Milton Glaser was involved with the re-design of a principal American supermarket, The Grand Union Company, a project that included all the company architecture, interiors, and packaging. He was responsible for the interior design and concept for the 1987-88 Triennale di Milano International Exhibition in Milan, Italy, on the theme of ‘World Cities and the Future of the Metropolis’. In 1987, Mr. Glaser was responsible for the graphic program of the Rainbow Room complexes for the Rockefeller Center Management Corporation, New York. Also in 1987, he designed the World Health Organization’s International AIDS Symbol and poster. From 1986–1989, he was responsible for the graphic design, theming, and signage for Franklin Mills, a retail mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and in 1988, he completed the exterior, interior, and all graphic elements of Trattoria dell’Arte, one of several New York restaurants he has designed. In 1990, Milton Glaser, Inc. was responsible for the overall conceptualization and interior design of New York Unearthed, a museum located in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. In 1993, he designed the logo for Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America. Milton Glaser Inc. created all of the graphic material for the Rubin Museum of Art, which opened in New York, autumn 2004.

Notably, he designed a seventeen-foot, copper gilded wall (Cloud Wall) at the entry that serves as a transition between the street and the museum. Milton Glaser is at present design consultant to Stony Brook University, Screaming Media, Schlumberger Ltd., Brooklyn Brewery and a number of other businesses.

In October 1999, Mr. Glaser’s illustrations of Dante’s Purgatorio were exhibited at the Nuages Gallery in Milan, Italy. A retrospective of Milton Glaser’s work sponsored by the Berilaqua Foundation opened in Venice during the 2000 Carnevale. The Cooper Hewitt Museum honored Milton Glaser with the 2004 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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