Milton Glaser was born in 1929 in New York City. He is an American graphic designer and illustrator who co-founded the pushpin studios. He married his wife Shirley Glaser in 1956.
He graduated from Cooper Union, a college for science and art, in New York City in 1951 and studied printmaking with Giorgio Morandi in Italy in 1952–53. He also founded the graphic design firm Pushpin in New York with Seymour Chwast, Reynolds Ruffins, and Edward Sorel in 1954. Milton Glaser was the art director for the New York Magazine from 1968 to 1976. He was also vice president and the design director of the Village Voice from 1975 to 1977. As his career in graphic design went on over the second half of the 20th century Glaser’s range of design activities came to include magazine art direction, packaging, corporate visual identity, fine art and store and restaurant design. His willingness to experiment and explore new things allowed him to produce incredible range of beautiful and genius visual designs.
In 2004, Glaser won a National Design AwardLifetime Achievement from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and in 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by the president of the United States , Barack Obama.