Milton Glaser Designer (5 results)

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page). [6], 340 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly toned; color fading to spine's title lettering; bumping with a few nicks and short tears at edges; front flap is not price-clipped; rear flap's top corner creased. Purple cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Scattered ink underlining and margin marks amongst text with majority of pages remaining clean. Binding is firm. Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. "Mysterier" was Hamsun's second novel and was originally published in 1892. ISBN 0374217645.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Avon Printing (stated), October, 1965. Avon #XX1. Clean and tightly bound. Slight shelf wear and creases to the covers. A previous owner's name is on the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked contents, remains Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VIOLENCE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM Number 55 Monthly Graphic Milton Glaser [Designer], Sarah Wilson [Editor], Victor Comerchero [Text] Published by The Push Pin Studios, Inc. New York, 1969, first edition. Softcover, square format, printed paper vellum wraps, side staple bound, 8vo, 16 pages, graphically illustrated with 4 color photographic plates of "torn" paper, three plates are die-cut with an area of text intentionally missing from the verso. Glaser is playing with the illusion of tearing. To add to the complexity, he reprinted the missing text on the vellum wrapper so the reader could replace the missing parts and read the entire text. The text examines cultural themes of violence. VERY GOOD Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon. THE SOUTH Push Pin Graphic. Number 54 Seymour Chwast [Designer], Sarah Wilson [Editor] Published by The Push Pin Studios, Inc. New York, 1969, first edition. Softcover, square format, 8.5" x 8", white paper wraps, side staple bound, 20 pages including covers, die-cut bullet hole through and through, graphically illustrated with 7 full page color collages. Designed Chwast in response to the violence of the civil rights movement. Juxtaposing portraits of people killed by racists over images of the Antebellum South, a physical hole punched through each of their heads. Across from these montages are popular Southern songs alongside biographies of those murdered. The final page inverts this structure, marking an end to injustice. VERY GOOD Condition: just some light signs of age/use and one leaf has a thin stiff horizontal production crease. Uncommon. In 1954 Cooper Union art school students Seymour Chwast (b.1931), Reynold Ruffins (1930-2021), Edward Sorel (b. 1929), and Milton Glaser (1929-2020) founded Push Pin Studios in New York City, creating what would become the most influential American design studio of the mid 20th century. Their eclectic graphic style was highly referential, blending motifs and letterforms from various art movements and cultures. They rejected the rigidity of modern minimalism, representational illustration, and sans-serif typefaces in favor of brightly colored, abstracted illustration that combined images and often flamboyant or novelty lettering that looked back to the late 19th and early 20th century poster styles of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Lucian Bernhard, and Ludwig Hohlwein. Push Pin Graphic was their monthly promotional publication, only 3000 to 5000 copies of each issue were printed, but it was highly influential for its unique approach to visual form and content among graphic and advertising designers. A wellspring of visual eclecticism during a period when Swiss Modernism was the reigning style, the Graphic not only showcased their overarching sensibility and its individual members' talents, but it also covered a wide range of issues and themes, some of them controversial.…

Vintage "Dick Gregory's Frankenstein" record store poster, designed by acclaimed graphic designer Milton Glaser, for Gregory's 1970 political stand-up comedy album, released on the Poppy record label. A wonderful confluence of two great and legendary artists of the late twentieth century. Glaser also designed the album art for Gregory's album, featuring the face of Frankenstein's monster visible through a small window. 22.75 x 34 inches. Near Fine. Archivally backed on linen and rolled.…

Vintage "Dick Gregory On Poppy" record store poster, designed by acclaimed graphic designer Milton Glaser, for Gregory's 1969 political stand-up comedy album "The Light Side: The Dark Side," released on the Poppy record label. Found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. Glazer's design, a play off of Gregory's album title "The Light Side: The Dark Side," features a beautiful illustration of Gregory vertically divided into a dark and light side, with the dark side dominating, just ever so much. A fitting and beautifully executed representation of the civil rights activist in 1969. A wonderful confluence of two great and legendary artists of the late twentieth century. 24 x 35.75 inches. Near Fine, with minor restoration at the folds. Archivally backed on linen and rolled.…