Make Things That Move People | Milton Glaser [Best Of]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Iconic designer and New York Magazine cofounder, Milton Glaser's work has been seen everywhere from the halls of global industry to, social movements to local pubs, the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. That famous I ♥ NY logo, that was him. The generation-defining, rainbow-haired Bob Dylan poster? Glaser, too. In 2004 he received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum lifetime achievement award, he's taught for more than 40 years and, amazingly, discovered his vocation when he was 5 years old. Milton Glaser didn't know the "how" or the precise path. But he did know he had to create, which he keeps doing to this day. This “Best Of” conversation from our 2013 archives is a powerful prompt to nurture the creative impulse that exists in all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | This month's best of conversation features iconic designer and New York magazine founder Milton Glaser. |
| 0:12.4 | Now 90 years old, Glaser discovered his vocation when he was five years old and never looked back. |
| 0:17.8 | He didn't know how or the precise path, but he did know he had to create, to draw, design, to make years into life. |
| 0:25.9 | Glaser's bodywork is stunning in its breath, its depth, and its impact. |
| 0:30.2 | The famed iHeart and Y logo, yup, he did that. |
| 0:33.2 | New York magazine he founded that iconic Bob Gillan, Aritha Franklin posters, he was the one who created them. |
| 0:41.0 | Brooklyn Brewer logo, so many other identities, all of those two and thousands of other works of art, |
| 0:47.4 | posters, brands, products, packaging, things that so many of us recognize and had been sort of a part of our own mythology, |
| 0:54.6 | but had no idea maybe unless we were in that world that these came from his unique mind and big heart. |
| 1:01.5 | His work has been seen everywhere from the halls of industry to local pubs, |
| 1:06.3 | MoMA in 2004, he received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, |
| 1:13.7 | and I had the incredible opportunity to spend some time with him at his studio back in 2013, |
| 1:20.0 | where he was deep at work on a new show. |
| 1:22.3 | We talked about his really incredible journey, the teacher who validated his choice of happiness over safety, |
| 1:28.8 | what drives him to continue to create how he chooses who and what to work on, |
| 1:34.4 | the difference between the urge to make and the desire to create beauty, the role of |
| 1:39.6 | formal art education, and the difference between calling and a career. |
| 1:44.1 | We also had a fascinating conversation about the role of computers and technology and art and design today, |
| 1:50.0 | and how it's affecting and maybe even constraining our ability to create while simultaneously |
| 1:56.0 | creating a world of opportunity. He has an unusual take care, and Glazer uses a computer every day, |
| 2:01.5 | but actually never touches them. You'll have to listen to understand. His depth and generosity, |
| 2:07.1 | a thought, left me not only re-examining my own choices, but yearning to reconnect with something |
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