Milton Glaser is a Graphic Designer from Bronx, New York. He attended Cooper’s School of Art and graduated in 1951. After that, Milton founded Pushpin Studios with several of his classmates before he went on his own. He has completed projects in a wide range of design disciplines, including graphic, environmental, and interior design. Some of his works include an AIDS poster for the World Health Organization, a poster to promote the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games, Give Earth A Chance poster and the one above “It’s Not Warming, It’s Dying campaign” is a poster to raise awareness for climate change. He is most well known for the famous NY logo that is still used everyday. However, he is still very well known for his countless campaigns to raise awareness for many different humanitarian issues. He has countless posters and designs he created to advocate for numerous topics.
Climate change is an issue we face everyday and this campaign was created to raise awareness and support to the issue. This campaign aims to create a greater sense of urgency to the issue of climate change and to show how serious it really is. His design looks like a simple green and black circle however, the black part that is majority of the circle is symbolizing the smoke and pollution on Earth and the small bright green part at the bottom is symbolizing the little life remaining on Earth. There were buttons created of the green and black circle that are available to buy on the campaign website for $5 for five of them. https://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/04/milton-glaser-its-not-warming-its-dying-climate-change-campaign/
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