My interview for the Serbien newspaper Blic.

The interview is conducted by Neven Dzodan. Photo by Primoz Koresec.

The Book "Milton Glaser, POP"

After more than two years of researching, and collecting Milton's work, it is finally here. I got my hands on the first printed copy of the book Milton Glaser, POP, which I co-authored with Beth Kleber and Steven Heller. The book contains well over 1100 visuals, covering Milton's work from when he was a 12-year-old (1942) to 1975.

The book is published by The Monacelli Press. It is a hardcover book, 288 pages, 4.72 x 9.45 inches. It will be available on March 29th, 2023.

 

New York Times One-Pager Challenge

Today I came across The New York Times's One-Pager Challenge for middle and high school students.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that my illustration for The New York Times Science section is one of the examples of how professional visual artists work with the Times on various topics.

 

New York Review of Sex & Politics

I recently acquired this issue of the New York Review of Sex & Politics (NYRS&P) from 1969 because of this beautiful and vivid cover by Brad Holland, art directed by Steven Heller. Steven was also the co-publisher of the newspaper.

When I received this issue, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I have bonus illustrations from Brad and Steven on the inside pages.

In Steven Heller's new book Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York, you can read more about his underground publishing days. It's a fun and interesting book worth reading.

 

 

Robert "Bob" Benton's Comic

Recently I acquired this unsigned comic page. It took me a little while to find out who drew it. It turned out it was a drawing of Robert "Bob" Benton. And it seems that it was drawn when he was an art director at Esquire Magazine in the mid-60s before he turned his attention to movies. 

 
Benton (1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Bonnie and Clyde, The Late Show, and Superman, amongst others. He also wrote and directed Places in the Heart and Kramer vs. Kramer, for which he received two Oscars.

 

Poster "Gog" by Ferdo Bis

I just acquired this very unusual movie poster from Croatian artist Ferdo Bis (1910-1980) for American science fiction movie Gog. It is an unusual design for a poster created in 1954.

The Design of Dissent Show at CHAVON The School of Design

The Design of Dissent show opened on November 14th 2022, at Altos de Chavon Cultura Center Foundation and CHAVON The School of Design in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. The show will stay open until January 9th. 

The show was organized and made possible by Adolfo Lucero, Vice Chancellor and Elías Roedán, Academic Coordinator and Professor at CHAVON.

The concept of the show is based on the book The Design of Dissent, Expanded Edition: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance, co-authored by Milton Glaser and me, published in 2017.

 

My Interview for the Croatian Magazine Ekran

I am happy to share with you my interview for the Croatian lifestyle magazine Ekran.  

The interview is conducted by Toni Volarić. 

Cover photo by Primož Korošec.

Heads and Tails

The idea for Heads and Tails book is not only for the kids to learn how to spell the animals' names but also to learn them in six European languages. The market for this book for now is primarily Europe.

I wanted to create a book that's interesting and interactive. And I wanted to achieve that without special effects, die-cutting, foldouts, etc.
That way, the price of the book stays low. For interaction, I use the existing format of the book. Holding certain amount pages of the book in the middle, one can get different combinations of the images/animals on the left and right pages.

The book is published by Bodoni, an imprint of the Croatian publishing company Fraktura. More here.

Le due bandiere (The two flags) by Sergio Toppi

I am very happy that I managed to acquire this original comics page by Sergio Toppi from the comic Le due bandiere (The two flags), published in 1973 in Corriere dei Ragazzi.

Sergio is one of the Italian masters of comics and illistrations and one of the idols of my youth. I must still be youthful because I still like his work very much. His seemingly random pen strokes are just amazing. 

On the quite large page margin of this comic, in pencil, he wrote notes on how it was supposed to be coloured. 

 

"Antonio di Padova" comic by Dino Battaglia

My recent acquisition—a comic page from the comic Antonio di Padova from 1980. The comic was drawn by Dino Battaglia, an Italian master of comic art and one of my idols. 

When I was acquiring this comic, I didn't know I would get a secret bonus. Dino very often coloured his comics with watercolour on the back of his comics. Every page got photographed twice, front and back. Then the line shot of the drawing on the front will be combined with a black halftone of the back part. That way, the linework stays crisp and sharp, and the colours soft.

I scanned both sides of the page and combined with photoshop, just to see how it would have looked like. 

 

 

MoMA: "Never Alone-Video Games and Other Interactive Design"

I am very proud to share this news with you. This weekend I went to see "Never Alone-Video Games and Other Interactive Design", a new show at MoMA. I didn't go there only because I liked the shows at MoMA but also because, in this particular show, they displayed the Home Pong video game console that I donated to MoMA in 2015.

This is the second time MoMA has shown one of the many items that I have donated to them. In 2017, in the show "Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989", they displayed Paul Rand's IBM Supply Kit from 1979, which I also donated to them. 

I am so happy to see those items in both shows. It feels almost like I created them.

 

 

The exhibition in Koprivnica, Croatia

 "The exhibition MIRKO ILIC: FROM THE HISTORY OF HUMAN STUPIDITY – THE DESIGN HISTORY OF THE WORLD opens at AK GALLERY in Koprivnica on Friday, October 7th at 7 p.m.

The exhibition presents a panoramic view of Ilić's work ranging from posters, newspaper covers and illustrations to comics, from the mid-1970s to today, remixed as a narrative about the 20th and 21st centuries and one possible reading of the moment we live in and what has become of us that led to that moment. The exhibition in Koprivnica marks its tenth appearance after the premiere in Zagreb in September of last year. It will remain open until October 27th. The curator of the exhibition is Marko Golub."