Posters by Milton Glaser from the Collection of MAA - Музеј примењене уметности БеоградМузеј примењене уметности Београд

Opening ceremony: Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 7 PM

Curator of the exhibition: Slobodan Jovanović

Organizer: Museum of Applied Art

A concert by the American Dixieland orchestra the Wings of Dixie and the Belgrade Chamber Choir, in the park in front of the Museum of Applied Art, on Wednesday 10 May, at 6 PM, will open two exhibitions of posters: Serbia, War and Poster 1914–1918 and Posters by Milton Glaser from the Collection of the Museum of Applied Art.

The exhibition Posters by Milton Glaser from the Collection of the Museum of Applied Art includes 25 posters received my MAA early in 2017 from New York as a personal gift from the famous American graphic designer Milton Glaser. The posters were designed between 1966 and 2016 and all of them were selected and signed by the author. At a special ceremony, they were delivered to the Museum by Mirko Ilić, a world famous designer and a close friend of Milton Glaser.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (1929), a renowned American designer, one of the founders of the graphic design studio Push Pin (1954) and the New York Magazine (1968). He is also famous as the designer of New York logo, I Love NY (1976). The items donated to the Museum also include the poster for the travelling exhibition The Push Pin Style – American Graphic Design, held at MAA in 1971. Along with this poster, Glaser also donated a promotional poster for the New York Magazine from 1967. After the terrorist attacks in 2001, Glaser designed a poster with the inscription “I Love NY” and the additional text “More Than Ever”. He has been the only graphic designer to be awarded he National Medal of Arts (2009).

Mirko Ilić

Mirko Ilić is a graphic designer and a comic strip artist; he has been living and working in New York for several decades. He was the comics editor in Polet, the founder of the The New Square (Novi kvadrat) art group, an illustrator and a designer. Since 1986, he has been living in the United States, where he has his own graphic design studio. He teaches illustration at the School of Visual Arts, while maintaining strong links with Belgrade, as evidenced by this initiative. Ilić donated to the Museum of Applied Art Glaser’s iconic poster of the hippie generation – Dylan, enclosed inside the sleeve of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits album released in 1967.