Timeline
"When I was five years old, a cousin of mine came to take care of me, and he had a paper bag with him and he said, "Would you like to see a horse?" I said, "Yes," so he reached into the paper bag, pulled out a pencil and drew a picture of a horse on the side of the bag. In that moment, I realised you could create life through the vehicle of a pencil, and that sense of the miraculous has never left me.”
1929
Milton was born on June 26, 1929 in the Bronx, New York City. When he was a child, he was known as the one who could draw. Milton decided to attend Manhattan’s High school of Music & Art and later Cooper Union.
1954
Milton Glaser, along with his classmates from Cooper Union, founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Then, Glaser started teaching at SVA, and he and Clay Felker founded New York Magazine, where Glaser was president and design director.
1974
In 1974, Milton Glaser erstablished Milton Glaser, Inc. The design firm best reflects Milton Glaser as a person and designer as it specializes in all sorts of design. Then in 1983, Glaser teamed with Walter Bernard to form WBMG, a publication design firm.
Glaser stated in an interview that “I always thought that specialization was early death, and style has always been something that I’ve both embraced and deplored,” a principle that is evident in his work. Milton was a generalist in design and that differentiated him from other designers in that he was always looking for something new and interesting. Staying constant bored him and excelling at many different disciplines drove his curiosity.
2009
Although Milton was reaching retirement age, he never quit designing. In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. His last project celebrates togetherness, however, he passed in 2020 before finishing.
