Milton Glaser, co-founder of New York Magazine and famous graphic designer behind the "I ♥ NY" logo, has died, according to the magazine.
Glaser died Friday91 birthday and his magazine obituary said. And his wife, Shirley Glaser: The New York Times reported that is the cause of his death, and he, too, the stream of the people suffering from renal failure. She did not immediately reached for comment by CNN.
"The family of New York, my thoughts with loved ones today, especially Milton's wife, Shirley. The great New Yorker and we lost the brilliant designer, "says New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement to CNN.
Born in 1929, Glaser got its start planning for New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He went to the 1954 book push pin Studios several classmates who are "on the part of the efforts Design" according to Glaser's website.
In 1968, Glaser founded Felker dirt and New York Magazine; and served as president and planning director until 1977.
Glaser is perhaps best known for designing the iconic and ubiquitous "I ♥ NY" logo. In 1977 it was created to promote tourism in the state of New York city spate of crime, noble black and widespread economic hardship.
An outline of the concept, hastily scribbled in red paper in the package, which is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Before this, Glaser won broad acclaim psychedelic poster for the years 1960 to Bob Dylan "Mass" list.
In the most well-known designs, Glaser's work is featured in the permanent collections of the MoMA over Israel Museum, Museum and the National Institute see that in Washington, with 600 others.
Glaser is a graphic artist to have had only a one man show at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the contemporary art museum in New York, according to the National Endowment for the Arts.
He received the National Medal of Arts in 2009.
More recent designs included Brewery in Brooklyn, and a title for the season 7 poster of "Mad Men."
"Milton Glaser's work is everywhere: in the forum logos, and posters you see on the sidewalk, and the identity of New York," the magazine's editor writes in a statement. "Not to mention the screens in the mailbox on the cover logo and drew the first issue of New York Magazine: It was so hard to even use 52 years later. However, our magazine is the DNA encodes Milton's ideas, visual intelligence and chat sensibility. is sad to hear what's gone - but what a great life he lived. "
