For more than fifty years Milton Glaser has designed much of the world we live and experience every day. His posters, books, albums, restaurants, advertisements and so much more have identified him as the preeminent force in design in America. Drawing upon an amazing vocabulary of images and techniques, Glaser has now in Drawing is Thinking created his most personal book.

Based on his view that all art has its origin in the impulse both to create and, visually, to do this by drawing, he has designed a book that powerfully delineates this position. In Drawing is Thinking, the drawings depicted are meant to be experienced sequentially, so that the reader or viewer not only follows Glaser through these pages, but comes to inhabit his mind. The drawings represent a sweeping range of subject matter taken from the full range of a reflective master's career. They represent the author's commitment to the fundamental idea that drawing is not simply a way to represent reality, but, as the title suggests, a way to understand and experience the world.

Glaser's two signature books (Graphic Design and Art is Work), both published by Overlook, are each in print decades after their first appearance. Each is a display of his work with short descriptions of how the work came about. But in Drawing is Thinking the author is less interested in display. Glaser this time is concerned with how the mind works in visually representing reality.

Milton Glaser, the creator of-among countless iconic images-the I HEART NY logo, was born in New York in 1929. A graduate of Cooper Union in New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Glaser has had his work featured in exhibitions around the world, including solo shows at New York's Museum of Modern Art and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou. He was co-founder of New York magazine and founder of Pushpin Studio. He lives with his wife in New York.