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Milton Glaser Biography

Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is an American graphic designer. His designs include the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and the Brooklyn Brewery logo. In 1954, he also co-founded Push Pin Studios, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker, and established Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974. His artwork has been featured in exhibits, and placed in permanent collections in many museums worldwide. Throughout his long career, he has designed many posters, publications and architectural designs. He has received many awards for his work, including the National Medal of the Arts award from President Barack Obama in 2009, and was the first graphic designer to receive this award.

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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Become, Former, Self, Shadow, Surrealism, Technology

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

Admit, Art, Arts, Design, Learning, Thinking

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Computer, Computers, Cooking, Design, Microwaves

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

Absurd, Design, Explain, Idea, Ideas, Trying

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

Design, Doctors, Drug, Protect, Telling

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Communicate, Control, Design, Master, Masters, Mean

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Desire, Grows, Independent, Persistence, Real, Things

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Closing, Create, Design, Doubt, Mind

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Enough, Inspiration, Leadership

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

Color, Cutting, Elaborately, Idea, Job, Jobs