Milton Glaser Essay

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Milton Glaser is an iconic New York City designer who was born in New York, June 26, 1929. He attended the high school of music and art. Known for his influential colourful dynamic design, the three most popular of his famous design work include the I love New York logo, Bob Dylan poster and DC bullet logo and also designed for DC Comics. Milton Glaser is still a working graphic designer today, and I think his relevance to the changing of culture is outstanding. The society was going through so many of changes in the time between 1955 and 1975. During that period of time everyone were learning about freedom and declaring independence from the own thoughts about family, friend, life and established traditions. There were war and integration …show more content…

But Milton Glaser who had studied in Italy on Fulbright scholarship in the early 1950s, is a formalist with a broad awareness of artists and art movements, and he took his inspiration for Dylan profile from a 1967 self-portrait by marcel Duchamp. Even though Milton Glaser used similar composition with it but the transformation of Dylan’s curly long flowing hair into a tangled rainbow into his own invention. Looking the way of Milton Glaser design is prominently is a silhouette of bob Dylan with black border, this simplistic shape can be created by using black card or cut outs placed on a white piece of paper creating the shape and background. The lettering “Dylan” was probably created by using of stencils and ink over the cut out. The most complex part of the design I think is features some depth as the effect of the different stencil and ink over a previous layer then repeating this work. A similar design I think could be created using the technology of today in a portion of the time it would have taken to create this design. The repeated stencilling technique used to create Dylan’s hair almost foreshadows layering coloured shapes on top of illustrator, proving that although it took longer, the same design could be created using pre-technology as it could using the design software of

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