Milton Glaser was born in 1929 and is widely acknowledged as one of America's most distinguished graphic designers. In 1954, he co-founded the Push Pin Studio, a design firm based in New York, with fellow designers Seymour Chwast, Reynolds Ruffins and Edward Sorel. Though Glaser's graphic output has been extremely varied throughout his illustrious career (he later designed the famous 'I Love New York' logo), among his best known work is this silhouette portrait of folk musician and song-writer Bob Dylan. During the psychedelic era of the mid- to late-Sixties, Glaser often relied on punctuating flat, black expanses with smaller areas of bold colour - which he affixed onto his black shapes using coloured films.Glaser frequently drew on his knowledge of art history in his designs; here he based the patterns in Dylan's technicolour hair on the traditional curvilinear forms of Islamic designs.