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Article: Blast from the past: Art is Work showcases work by graphics star Milton Glaser. But his work looks the same as it did 25 years ago.
- Article from:
- Design Week
- Article date:
- November 10, 2000
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IF YOU were at college with me in the early 1980s you may have wondered why two important graphic design books were conspicuously absent from the library -- Pioneers of Modem Typography by Herbert Spencer and Milton Glaser Graphic Design by Milton Glaser.
Well, they weren't missing exactly -- they would come back for a brief spell of about 20 minutes, then I took them out again for another term. You see, these two books formed the backbone of my design education.
One book revealed that graphic design basically consisted of owning a few turn-of-the-century poster books, being able to daub with gouache, dabble in watercolours, embrace stencil type in all ...