Look Here: Two plays by Shakespeare with cover art by Milton Glaser

31 May 201410 August 2016 RC1 Comment

I only have two battered volumes of the Signet Classic Shakespeare Series of paperbacks with cover art in pen and ink and wash by Milton Glaser in my book collection, but they are definitely worth scanning for display here, so… voilà!

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**ABOVE:** William Shakespeare, *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, edited by Robert Langbaum (NY: Signet, c.1963), with cover art by Milton Glaser.

**ABOVE:** William Shakespeare, *The Tempest*, edited by Wolfgang Clemen (NY: Signet, c.1964), with cover art by Milton Glaser.

BONUS CONNECTION:

If Glaser’s drawing for the cover of The Tempest looks vaguely familiar to you, it might be because you’ve seen Glaser’s famous psychedelic poster of Bob Dylan, created for the release of Dylan’s 1967 “Greatest Hits” album…

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Connections: Giulio Aristide Sartorio and Milton Glaser

7 February 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I posted JPEGs of Milton Glaser’s Angel Alley cover, poster, and artwork, back on 29 January 2013, and now, more than a year later, I have noticed a familiar figure in the foreground of Giulio Aristide Sartorio’s Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves (1895-1899):

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**ABOVE:** Giulio Aristide Sartorio, *Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves* (1895-1899), oil on canvas, 421 x 304 cm. Collection of Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy. Via TRANSISTORADIO.

**ABOVE:** Milton Glaser, original art for the cover of the LP *Angel Alley* (1978) by Linda Cohen.

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Look Here: Three classics with cover art by Milton Glaser

2 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

More cover scans, from the library of yours truly:

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BONUS IMAGE:

**ABOVE:** John Michael Wright, *Thomas Hobbes* (c. 1669 – 1670), oil on canvas, 54.6 x 66.0 cm. Collection of National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Look Here: Two 1960s paperbacks with cover art by birthday-boy Milton Glaser

26 June 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Today, legendary graphic designer and illustrator Milton Glaser (b. 26 June 1929, New York City) celebrates his 84th birthday, so I dived into my stacks of old paperbacks, and this is what I came up with:

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“There is no security in the world, or in life. I don’t mind living with some ambiguity and realizing that eventually, everything changes.”
— Milton Glaser, in conversation with Debbie Millman,
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (2007)

“The story of how I decided to become an artist is this: When I was a very little boy, a cousin of mine came to my house with a paper bag. He asked me if I wanted to see a bird. I thought he had a bird in the bag. He stuck his hand in the bag, and I realized that he had drawn a bird on the side of a bag with a pencil. I was astonished! I perceived this as being miraculous. At that moment, I decided that was what I was going to do with my life. Create miracles.”
— Milton Glaser, in conversation with Debbie Millman,
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (2007)