Milton Glaser | Make Things That Move People [Best Of]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Iconic artist, designer, and New York Magazine cofounder, Milton Glaser's (http://www.miltonglaser.com/) 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. He was the visionary behind the legendary I ♥ NY logo, designed and given for free as an offering to the city he loved when it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy in the 70s. The generation-defining, rainbow-haired Bob Dylan poster? Glaser, too. And, thousands of other works that have moved millions of people and defined moments, industries, and generations. Over our 8-year history, Glaser has become the single most-referenced and, arguably, most revered guest. His work changed us, and so did our time with him.
Milton Glaser passed away on Friday, June 26th at the age of 91. On his birthday. So, we wanted to share this “Best Of” conversation from our 2013 archives in honor of his life and impact, and as a powerful prompt to nurture the creative impulse that exists in all of us. To make meaning. To play. To live with purpose and joy.
You can find Milton Glaser at:
Website : https://www.miltonglaser.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/miltonglaserinc/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/geneenrothttps://www.facebook.com/MiltonGlaserInc/h
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| 0:00.0 | So over the history of this show spanning eight years, more than 500 guests, two years |
| 0:12.9 | filming on location and a crew, and now more than six years as a podcast, I have been |
| 0:19.2 | asked one question over and over and over. |
| 0:23.1 | So who's your favorite guest? |
| 0:26.2 | So when you do what I do, you learn quickly to dodge the answer to that question. |
| 0:31.9 | For one, you can't win. |
| 0:33.7 | For any name he dared to offer, you're simultaneously snubbing hundreds and if I'm blessed to keep |
| 0:41.0 | doing this long enough, thousands of other people. |
| 0:45.3 | But more importantly, if you're really paying attention, truthfully, there was no such thing |
| 0:50.4 | as a favorite guest. |
| 0:51.9 | I don't do this to be entertained or to fall in love or to make new friends or to have |
| 0:58.0 | favorites. |
| 0:59.2 | I do it because I love doing it. |
| 1:01.1 | And because it's a bit like my living laboratory, it's not about who I like best, but rather |
| 1:07.3 | who I have learned from who has left me changed. |
| 1:11.9 | And on that level, what I've come to believe is you learn something if you allow yourself |
| 1:17.1 | to remain open from every single person. |
| 1:21.2 | Because it is on screen, as it is in front of a mic in a studio on location, so it is |
| 1:28.3 | in life. |
| 1:29.9 | But as I sit here today, having just learned of the passing of a man who has become as our |
| 1:39.1 | producer Lindsey often reminds me, the single most referenced guest by me in the history |
| 1:46.2 | of the show, Milton Glazer. |
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