The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives and the SVA Archives, the two archival collections housed within the SVA Library, have recently launched their new website, archives.sva.edu. Visitors can now learn more about and view selections from both archives' collections, schedule appointments to visit the archives in person, and more. (You can also keep up with highlights from the archives on Instagram, @glaserarchives.) We thought this occasion a good opportunity to look back at an article on one of the Glaser Archives' collections, from the spring 2018 issue of the Visual Arts Journal.

Conveying the fervor and fire of political activism, nearly 250 items from Syria, Slovenia, the United States and beyond make up the Design of Dissent Collection in the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives. An ever-growing assortment of posters, postcards, books and pamphlets, the Design of Dissent Collection began as a book of the same name, put together in 2005 by designers and SVA faculty Mirko Ilić and Milton Glaser (Glaser is also SVA's acting chairman of the board). The book's content cut across countries, generations and issues, examining graphic responses to the constraints of government and pressing social concerns, and included images that addressed topics as varied as the Iraq War, environmental degradation, fallout from communist regimes and corporate media control. Ilić had collected hard copies of the works, most of them posters, from contributors; these were mounted as an exhibition at the College that year, then donated to the Glaser Archives.

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