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Milton Glaser Sketches for a 1967 concert poster for Simon and Garfunkel (left) Babyfat (right) Aint Baroque “Glaser always said he was “not a type designer,” and that his typefaces only came into being as the product of graphic ideas applied to letterforms. Even so, Glaser’s stylized type, with an emphasis on three-dimensionality, has had a lasting effect on the design of many subsequent display types; It combines Push Pin-era Deco motifs with conventions adapted from hand-painted signs, and are expressive of his illustration.” From Typography Sketchbooks

Milton Glaser

Sketches for a 1967 concert poster for Simon and Garfunkel

(left) Babyfat (right) Aint Baroque

“Glaser always said he was “not a type designer,” and that his typefaces only came into being as the product of graphic ideas applied to letterforms. Even so, Glaser’s stylized type, with an emphasis on three-dimensionality, has had a lasting effect on the design of many subsequent display types; It combines Push Pin-era Deco motifs with conventions adapted from hand-painted signs, and are expressive of his illustration.”

From Typography Sketchbooks

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