Throughout the 2021 – 2022 academic year, SVA is honoring the singular life of Milton Glaser, the legendary designer, longtime SVA faculty member and former acting chairman of the SVA Board, who died in 2020. Earlier this semester, the College’s in-house design studio, the Visual Arts Press released the first issue of The Glaser Gazette, a limited-run publication dedicated to celebrating Glaser as a creative talent, mentor, colleague and friend. On view now until January 15, 2022, “SVA❤️ Milton: The Legacy of Milton Glaser,” a career-spanning exhibition of Glaser’s work, can be seen at the SVA Gramercy Gallery and SVA Flatiron Project Space and Windows. “SVA❤️ Milton” is an immersive experience that contextualizes Glaser’s enduring influence, explores his early life and career, and celebrates his legacy as a designer and teacher through photographs, audio and original pieces drawn from the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives.

Throughout the exhibition’s run, SVA will be publishing select content from The Glaser Gazette online. Today’s excerpt, “The Greatest Gems,” takes a look at some little-known gems from the designer’s archive.

The sheer magnitude of Milton Glaser’s brilliant output is hard to fathom. You’re probably familiar with Glaser’s Dylan poster or his “I ❤️ NY ” logo, but he’s also responsible for thousands more works you may never have laid eyes on.

The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at SVA contains all of it: unseen book jackets and album covers, rare posters and original art for unproduced projects. These are just a few of the hard-to-find and mostly unknown pieces from our collection.

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