Ten Signature Images From Milton Glaser’s Eclectic Career

 


"Mr. Glaser’s designs could be amusing, even outright comic, but his wit and invention were undergirded by a profound seriousness about the history of art and the power of design. Long before Google Images made it child’s play to discover and redeploy the figurative language of earlier centuries, Mr. Glaser imbibed the art of the past as widely as he could, and exhaled it into posters, logos, book covers and typefaces that scampered across eras and styles. Here we’ve collected some highlights from his epically eclectic oeuvre, where Dürer mingled with Duchamp, Islamic ornament with African textiles — all with a vibrancy that was unmistakably New York."

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Ten Signature Images From Milton Glaser’s Eclectic Career - The New York Times: Here we’ve collected some highlights from his epically eclectic oeuvre, where Dürer mingled with Duchamp,