Month: February 2020

In the 1960s, Stermer had become an art director for Ramparts. A magazine that had leftist views that eventually resulted in the conceptualization of the Rolling Stones magazine. With his work in Ramparts, he had enabled the magazine to the first “Radical Slick” by combining blockbuster investigative stories with high production values by including photographs and glossy paper.

After a successful career at Ramparts magazine for a number of years, he had left the position to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator and a magazine designer. His later jobs had consisted of working on advertising campaigns for Levi’s, Jaguar, Brooks Bros., BMW, Nike, and others as well. However, one of most notable, if not the most notable, was his designing of the medals for the 1984 Summer Olympics while he was still living in Los Angeles.

In addition to that, he had also worked as an illustrator by creating illustrations for The San Francisco Chronicle, Time, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, GQ, and The Rolling Stones. He had led a successful career until his eventual death at the age of 74 on December 2, 2011.

Born on June 26th, 1929 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, Glaser had gone on to be one of the most well-known and well-received Graphic Designers of all time. He had been responsible for many iconic designs such as the I ❤ NY logo and the DC Comics logo. In addition to being responsible for some of the most well-known logos today, he had also been responsible for the formation of Push Pin Studios, had co-founded The New York Magazine, and lastly formed Milton Glaser Inc.

Over the course of his career, he had designed more than 300 posters. Most of which have been displayed in the Cooper Hewitt Nation Design Museum. This museum is where he had received a Nation Design Award Lifetime Achievement in 2004. Lastly, he had also received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2009 and had been the only Graphic Designer to do so.