Milton Glaser explored an undersea terrain for Sports Illustrated in 1961.

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In the grand tradition of magazine quizzes comes “The Whatchamacallit Game” from Esquire.

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From the George Tscherny Collection, Series 4.

Promotion by George Tscherny for Strathmore paper, 1958. Torn-paper motifs seemed to have been very much the thing for that year (when Tony Palladino contributed this one). Click through for the full image.

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These Perfectos cigarette ads, designed by Tony Palladino in 1965, caught my attention because they’re so markedly different in style from the typical tobacco ads of the 1960s.

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An exhibition of Navajo Weaving at the Visual Arts Gallery in 1972 described a loom made of cosmic forces, and blankets rendered in “cannel-coal, turquoise, abalone, and white bead” but developed during a “devastating acculturation process.”

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One of the earliest exhibitions of Andy Warhol’s provocative “Sickle and Hammer” series was an exhibition of the pencil-and-watercolor drawings of 1976 at the Visual Arts Museum.

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School of Visual Arts Collection. Course announcement, Fall 1965.

From our cache of early SVA course announcements comes this sweet one in dust jacket form for Advanced Children’s Book Illustration taught by Edward Lear disciple and legend himself, Edward Gorey. Too bad Gorey didn’t get to write (I presume) the copy, too.

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And now, the companion piece to the Pushpin beers post. “Any port in a storm.”

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Before Push Pin Studios, before the Push Pin Graphic, there was the Push Pin Almanack.

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Descending into Series II, Subseries G, we take another look at some of Milton Glaser’s logos and menus for restaurants.

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