The studio was regarded as a beacon for the new modern era of graphic design, so much so that in 1970 they were the first American studio to have an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Through their eclectic, boisterous approach to designing album covers, posters, publications and logos, Push Pin inspired a seismic shift away from the exacting and severe “Swiss Precisionism” that had swayed graphic design since the 1930s.
In 1954, at just twenty-five-years-old, Glaser, along with Seymour Chwast, Reynold Ruffins and Edward Sorel founded Push Pin Studios - a graphic design firm that Glaser said was run “like a bunch of art students trying to change history”. Glaser considers his career as a graphic designer a “preordained condition”. Original art for I Love New York: Spring Flower Festival poster Illumination and Bricks, original art for Volunteers in Service of America poster 113 MILTON GLASER Juilliard (Wing), original art for The Juilliard School poster 120 MILTON GLASER Original art for Dante's Purgatorio 136 MILTON GLASER The present collection of over two hundred works, from Glaser's own personal collection, is a visual testament to his limitless range, compassionate curiosity and belief that the field of design is a “philosophical inquiry into the nature of truth, beauty, and reality”. From this devotional act of looking has sprung a distinctly American vernacular of design - one that is both reverent of and transgressive toward the historical, celebrates pastiche and intuition over immediate coherence, and is as proudly intellectual as it is raffish. To Inform and Delight The Collection of Milton Glaserįor over sixty years, Milton Glaser, one of America’s foremost and influential graphic designers, has made it his business to look at the world closely.
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