Milton Glaser was born in 1929 and is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. He was educated at New York City's High School of Music and Art and graduated from Cooper Union and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under Giorgio Morandi. He founded Push Pin Studios with Cooper Union classmates. Glaser's work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality. He uses any medium or style to solve the problem at hand. His style ranges wildly from primitive to avant garde in his countless book jackets, album covers, advertisements and direct mail pieces and magazine illustrations. He started his own studio in 1974. Throughout his career he has had a major impact on contemporary illustration and design.

• “Where am I going with design? That’s a hard question, because none of us has really the ability to understand our path until it’s over.”
• “My idea about graphic designers and social commentary is that, that is part of the practice. I’ve always believed that, because you have access to peoples’ minds and you communicate to people… there is a corresponding responsibility – the responsibility of being a good citizen.”
• “If you have the ability to transfer ideas from one point to another, those should be ideas that cause no harm.”
• “You want to do things that have some relationship to your community, to your family, to your city, to your country, to the world.”
—Milton Glaser

You can watch and listen to the full Milton Glaser interview in the below video clip (lasting 5 minutes 57 seconds):

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