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R.I.P. Milton Glaser, 91, designer of "The Underground Gourmet Cookbook" plus...guess what?)
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leno...@yahoo.com
Jun 27, 2020, 7:20:17 PM6/27/20
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He also designed "The Cooks' Catalogue" by James Beard, was the co-founder of New York Magazine - and he designed the "I (Heart) NY" logo. Plus the Bob Dylan psychedelic poster.
He died on his birthday.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/milton-glaser-new-york-and-iny-designer-dies-at-91.html
(obit)
https://www.google.com/search?q=milton+glaser+cookbook&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS2bb82IfjAhVETd8KHRhWDZgQ_AUIESgC&biw=1920&bih=969
(cookbook covers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!searchin/rec.food.cooking/Milton$20glaser/rec.food.cooking/L_Jr2r2lEEA
(birthday post from last year; it includes his TED talk, interviews, videos, book reviews, etc.)
Lenona.
He died on his birthday.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/milton-glaser-new-york-and-iny-designer-dies-at-91.html
(obit)
https://www.google.com/search?q=milton+glaser+cookbook&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS2bb82IfjAhVETd8KHRhWDZgQ_AUIESgC&biw=1920&bih=969
(cookbook covers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!searchin/rec.food.cooking/Milton$20glaser/rec.food.cooking/L_Jr2r2lEEA
(birthday post from last year; it includes his TED talk, interviews, videos, book reviews, etc.)
Lenona.
leno...@yahoo.com
Jun 27, 2020, 7:58:43 PM6/27/20
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/milton-glaser-dead.html
Excerpt:
...He was hired by the British tycoon James Goldsmith in 1978 to redesign the interiors, exteriors and packaging of the Grand Union chain of supermarkets, which Mr. Goldsmith had just acquired. Mr. Glaser designed several projects for the restaurateur Joe Baum, most memorably the Big Kitchen food court on the ground-floor concourse of the World Trade Center, the 1990s redesign of Windows on the World there and the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center...
And earlier:
...“I ♥ NY,” his logo for a 1977 campaign to promote tourism in New York State, achieved even wider currency. Sketched on the back of an envelope with red crayon during a taxi ride, it was printed in black letters in a chubby typeface, with a cherry-red heart standing in for the word “love.” Almost immediately, the logo became an instantly recognized symbol of New York City, as recognizable as the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty.
“I’m flabbergasted by what happened to this little, simple nothing of an idea,” Mr. Glaser told The Village Voice in 2011.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, T-shirts emblazoned with the logo sold in the thousands, as visitors to the city seized on it as a way of expressing solidarity. Mr. Glaser designed a modified version — “I ♥ NY More Than Ever,” with a dark bruise on the heart — which was distributed as a poster throughout the city and reproduced on the front and back pages of The Daily News on Sept. 19....
Excerpt:
...He was hired by the British tycoon James Goldsmith in 1978 to redesign the interiors, exteriors and packaging of the Grand Union chain of supermarkets, which Mr. Goldsmith had just acquired. Mr. Glaser designed several projects for the restaurateur Joe Baum, most memorably the Big Kitchen food court on the ground-floor concourse of the World Trade Center, the 1990s redesign of Windows on the World there and the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center...
And earlier:
...“I ♥ NY,” his logo for a 1977 campaign to promote tourism in New York State, achieved even wider currency. Sketched on the back of an envelope with red crayon during a taxi ride, it was printed in black letters in a chubby typeface, with a cherry-red heart standing in for the word “love.” Almost immediately, the logo became an instantly recognized symbol of New York City, as recognizable as the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty.
“I’m flabbergasted by what happened to this little, simple nothing of an idea,” Mr. Glaser told The Village Voice in 2011.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, T-shirts emblazoned with the logo sold in the thousands, as visitors to the city seized on it as a way of expressing solidarity. Mr. Glaser designed a modified version — “I ♥ NY More Than Ever,” with a dark bruise on the heart — which was distributed as a poster throughout the city and reproduced on the front and back pages of The Daily News on Sept. 19....
leno...@yahoo.com
Jun 27, 2020, 8:04:17 PM6/27/20
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That URL doesn't seem to be working, so...
Most of what I posted last year:
Two birthday tributes:
"Milton Glaser is spending his 90th birthday doing what he loves most: working"
https://qz.com/work/1651043/how-designer-milton-glaser-plans-to-spend-his-90th-birthday/
Excerpt:
...Almost without fail, Glaser reports to his Manhattan studio five days a week, albeit with a bit more caution these days about climbing the four-story walk-up on 32nd Street. He says he isn’t particularly looking forward to any grand birthday celebrations at the office today, partly because they would cut into time he can spend being productive. Spending 65 years in the business and garnering countless accolades, including the National Medal of the Arts from former US president Barack Obama, hasn’t inspired him to think of withdrawing from professional life.
“The idea of retirement is disgusting to me,” he says. “I would drive my wife nuts for one thing.”
Retirement, Glaser argues, is an outdated construct from the industrial age. “For many people, work was unpleasant labor. If you work in a factory and all you did was move widgets, you’d eventually get tired. Retirement fit in with the nature of industrial work, but that’s not true of artists and painters.” He cites Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso—artists he admires—as examples of this...
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/happy-90th-milton-glaser/
(shorter tribute, with the first cover of New York Magazine)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/
(his site)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/#0
(longish bio)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/the-work/
(various designs of his)
https://www.ted.com/speakers/milton_glaser
(his 15-minute TED Talk)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/nyregion/milton-glaser-still-hearts-new-york.html?_r=0
(long 2016 profile)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&ei=2q0TXaT6Oaem_QaT_IiYCg&q=milton+glaser+interview&oq=milton+glaser+interview&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.2221.3657..3880...0.0..1.258.1269.2j7j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i67j0i22i30.E7mU94seYH4
(interviews)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&ei=j6wTXfPAIuLm_Qafmoj4Bw&q=milton+glaser++kirkus&oq=milton+glaser++kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1593.2822..3092...0.0..1.171.672.5j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0j0i67j0i22i30j33i160.eTcLSjU1iEg
(two Kirkus reviews of books by Shirley Glaser)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/173811.Milton_Glaser
(reader reviews)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=na0TXeLEG67H_QbM4bfgDg&q=milton+glaser+menotti+tresselt&oq=milton+glaser+menotti+tresselt&gs_l=img.3...11562.13284..13699...0.0..0.68.485.8......0....1..gws-wiz-img.kpXdcohpbuA
(some illustrations for his juvenile books)
https://www.google.com/search?q=milton+glaser&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3o83n2IfjAhWwc98KHSLyDR0Q_AUIEigD&biw=1920&bih=969
(videos)
WRITINGS:
(With wife, Shirley Glaser; self-illustrated) If Apples Had Teeth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1960.
(With Jerome Snyder) The Underground Gourmet, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1968, 3rd edition published as The All New Underground Gourmet, 1977.
Graphic Design, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1973.
(With Jerome Snyder) The Underground Gourmet Cookbook, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1975.
(With Lally Weymouth) America in 1876, Random House (New York, NY), 1976.
(Self-illustrated) The Milton Glaser Posterbook, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1977.
(With others) The Conversation, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1983.
(With others) Folon & Glaser: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 29 de Septiembre al 25 de Octubre de 1987, 1987.
(Designer) Work, Life, Tools: The Things We Use to Do the Things We Do (based on an exhibition created by Milton Glaser and the Steelcase Design Partnership), Monacelli Press (New York, NY), 1997.
Art Is Work: Graphic Design, Interiors, Objects, and Illustrations, Overlook Press (New York, NY), 2000.
ILLUSTRATOR
Alvin Tresselt, The Smallest Elephant in the World, Knopf (New York, NY), 1959.
Conrad Aiken, Cats and Bats and Things with Wings (poems), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1965.
Mikhail Sholokhov, Fierce and Gentle Warriors, translated by Miriam Morton, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967.
Gian Carlo Menotti, Help, Help, the Gobolinks, adapted by Leigh Dean, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1970.
George Mendoza, Fish in the Sky, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971.
(With Seymour Chwast and Barry Zaid) Ormonde DeKay, Jr., translator, Rimes de la Mere Ole, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1971.
Asimov's Illustrated Don Juan, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972.
Idwal Jones, The Adventures of Chef Gallois, Yolla Bolly Press (Covelo, CA), 2000.
Shirley Glaser, The Alphazeds (for children), Hyperion (New York, NY), 2003.
Most of what I posted last year:
Two birthday tributes:
"Milton Glaser is spending his 90th birthday doing what he loves most: working"
https://qz.com/work/1651043/how-designer-milton-glaser-plans-to-spend-his-90th-birthday/
Excerpt:
...Almost without fail, Glaser reports to his Manhattan studio five days a week, albeit with a bit more caution these days about climbing the four-story walk-up on 32nd Street. He says he isn’t particularly looking forward to any grand birthday celebrations at the office today, partly because they would cut into time he can spend being productive. Spending 65 years in the business and garnering countless accolades, including the National Medal of the Arts from former US president Barack Obama, hasn’t inspired him to think of withdrawing from professional life.
“The idea of retirement is disgusting to me,” he says. “I would drive my wife nuts for one thing.”
Retirement, Glaser argues, is an outdated construct from the industrial age. “For many people, work was unpleasant labor. If you work in a factory and all you did was move widgets, you’d eventually get tired. Retirement fit in with the nature of industrial work, but that’s not true of artists and painters.” He cites Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso—artists he admires—as examples of this...
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/happy-90th-milton-glaser/
(shorter tribute, with the first cover of New York Magazine)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/
(his site)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/#0
(longish bio)
https://www.miltonglaser.com/the-work/
(various designs of his)
https://www.ted.com/speakers/milton_glaser
(his 15-minute TED Talk)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/nyregion/milton-glaser-still-hearts-new-york.html?_r=0
(long 2016 profile)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&ei=2q0TXaT6Oaem_QaT_IiYCg&q=milton+glaser+interview&oq=milton+glaser+interview&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.2221.3657..3880...0.0..1.258.1269.2j7j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i67j0i22i30.E7mU94seYH4
(interviews)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&ei=j6wTXfPAIuLm_Qafmoj4Bw&q=milton+glaser++kirkus&oq=milton+glaser++kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1593.2822..3092...0.0..1.171.672.5j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0j0i67j0i22i30j33i160.eTcLSjU1iEg
(two Kirkus reviews of books by Shirley Glaser)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/173811.Milton_Glaser
(reader reviews)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=969&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=na0TXeLEG67H_QbM4bfgDg&q=milton+glaser+menotti+tresselt&oq=milton+glaser+menotti+tresselt&gs_l=img.3...11562.13284..13699...0.0..0.68.485.8......0....1..gws-wiz-img.kpXdcohpbuA
(some illustrations for his juvenile books)
https://www.google.com/search?q=milton+glaser&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3o83n2IfjAhWwc98KHSLyDR0Q_AUIEigD&biw=1920&bih=969
(videos)
WRITINGS:
(With wife, Shirley Glaser; self-illustrated) If Apples Had Teeth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1960.
(With Jerome Snyder) The Underground Gourmet, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1968, 3rd edition published as The All New Underground Gourmet, 1977.
Graphic Design, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1973.
(With Jerome Snyder) The Underground Gourmet Cookbook, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1975.
(With Lally Weymouth) America in 1876, Random House (New York, NY), 1976.
(Self-illustrated) The Milton Glaser Posterbook, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1977.
(With others) The Conversation, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1983.
(With others) Folon & Glaser: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 29 de Septiembre al 25 de Octubre de 1987, 1987.
(Designer) Work, Life, Tools: The Things We Use to Do the Things We Do (based on an exhibition created by Milton Glaser and the Steelcase Design Partnership), Monacelli Press (New York, NY), 1997.
Art Is Work: Graphic Design, Interiors, Objects, and Illustrations, Overlook Press (New York, NY), 2000.
ILLUSTRATOR
Alvin Tresselt, The Smallest Elephant in the World, Knopf (New York, NY), 1959.
Conrad Aiken, Cats and Bats and Things with Wings (poems), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1965.
Mikhail Sholokhov, Fierce and Gentle Warriors, translated by Miriam Morton, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967.
Gian Carlo Menotti, Help, Help, the Gobolinks, adapted by Leigh Dean, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1970.
George Mendoza, Fish in the Sky, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971.
(With Seymour Chwast and Barry Zaid) Ormonde DeKay, Jr., translator, Rimes de la Mere Ole, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1971.
Asimov's Illustrated Don Juan, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972.
Idwal Jones, The Adventures of Chef Gallois, Yolla Bolly Press (Covelo, CA), 2000.
Shirley Glaser, The Alphazeds (for children), Hyperion (New York, NY), 2003.
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