Their Favourite Drawing Instruments with a Bic mechanical pencil that allows me to smudge it , make it more sculptural , impressionistic . Doing it this way feels much more three dimensional than working with AutoCAD , and I can understand the potential problems as I am working them out on paper . My drawing is not so great , but how you speak is how you draw .”
Milton Glaser : Koh-I-Noor multi-colored Magic Pencil
Milton Glaser , one of the most celebrated graphic designers around , is perhaps best known for his posters but has created book covers , corporate logos , magazines and , most recently , the “ Mad Men ” campaign .
“ I use everything – crayons , magic markers , watercolors , pen and ink – but my favorite is the
Illustration by Milton Glaser
Koh-I-Noor multi-colored Magic Pencil . I buy them by the dozen . When you use one , it makes even a simple drawing look complex and difficult , so the client thinks you spent more time on it than you did . I started my life doing book covers , but that work has vanished ; so many anxious people in publishing , and so few books are being printed . The computer has changed everything . I just did the ‘ Mad Men ’ job that references my 1966 Bob Dylan poster . When I did it , the original drawing was in black and white , pen and ink . Then I had to cut the colored adhesive film and rub it down ’ till it stuck to get the effect . It made me nuts . Now I can do that kind of thing with a computer and it takes 10 percent of the time . But the computer is also responsible for the extraordinary
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