Milton Glaser Wants You to Prove You Exist
The 86-year-old design legend has a message for American voters.
Milton Glaser Wants Your Vote
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At 86, Milton Glaser, the irrepressible dean of American graphic design, still comes in to work at his Manhattan studio each morning, takes a pencil from a basket where they await, presharpened, pointy-end up, and begins to draw. So when AIGA, a professional design organization, recently solicited ideas for a 2016 get-out-the-vote poster, he didn’t hesitate. He’s dabbled in this arena before, sketching a poster with the motto “To Vote Is Human” in 2010. This time, he echoes René Descartes (“I think, therefore I am”) and challenges voters to prove they’re among the living. Brad Wieners spoke to Glaser on May 3. The interview has been edited and condensed.
Why this poster now?