Milton Glaser

American graphic designer and illustrator
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Born:
June 26, 1929, Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died:
June 26, 2020, New York, New York (aged 91)
Founder:
Pushpin Studio

Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died June 26, 2020, New York, New York) was an American graphic designer, illustrator, and cofounder of the revolutionary Pushpin Studio. Glaser graduated from Cooper Union in New York City in 1951 and studied printmaking with Giorgio Morandi in Italy in 1952–53. Glaser founded the graphic design firm Pushpin Studio in New York with Seymour Chwast, Reynold Ruffins, and Edward Sorel in 1954. At this time photography and television were radically altering the visual-communications industry, and naturalistic illustration was declining from its position as the dominant mass-media imaging technique. Glaser and ...(100 of 351 words)