Saturday, November 20, 2021

Holiday card inspiration from the greats.

milton glaser christmas card

While designing Christmas cards for clients, I’ve been looking at past examples from some of my favorite designers/illustrators. Here’s a 1960s card from Milton Glaser (my all-time favorite), created for a typography company called Advertising Composition. He fashioned a Christmas tree from the type settings of its catalog. Anyone remember the days of type-specking?

BTW, Milton’s book Drawing is Thinking is an excellent ‘read’ (if you can call it ‘reading’) and demonstrates his idea that drawing is not just a way to represent reality, but a way to understand and experience the world.

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