"There's a wonderful book that I have quoted for most of my life by Louis Hyde called "The Gift" and it basically says that this gift-giving which occurs in primitive cultures from one tribe to another which is a device for pacifying others and establishing relationships is what artists do, they basically create the commonalities the symbolisms so that people feel they have some relationship to one another. When people don't feel they have that relationship, they kill each other. That role of providing common ground is absolutely essential to civilization." –Milton Glaser [http://www.davidcrompton.net/atn/2014/3/7/4070-03-milton-glaser] Milton Glaser is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the US. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the MoMA and the Pompidou Center. He was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the Fulbright Association, and in 2009 he was the first graphic designer to receive the National Medal of the Arts award. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter, Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, and is an articulate spokesman for the ethical practice of design. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce a prolific amount of work in many fields of design to this day. To many, Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man — one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work. Born in 1929, Milton Glaser ... co-founded the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968... [https://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/#1] undefined

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