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Article: DRAWING IS THINKING: Glaser's inner artist.
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- Creative Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Richard Poynor welcomes a new book of drawings by Milton Glaser that reveal the designer's technical skills as an artist
It's hard to think of a body of work by a living Anglo-American designer quite like Milton Glaser's.
Drawing has always been the absolute foundation of what he does, so much so that a Glaser design without any drawing doesn't quite feel like a Glaser. He has never regarded himself as an illustrator, though he has created many illustrations, and the position of control he occupies on projects, as the principal of his own design firm, is certainly that of designer. Glaser's total command of type and image- making might seem to align ...