“With the passing of Milton Glazer on June 26, his 91st birthday, New York lost a favorite son whose designs — and one in particular — radiated the vitality and multiplicity of his beloved hometown,” said Jason Farago in his “Critic’s Notebook” column on July 1. “Over seven decades,” Farago continued, “he produced an uncountable quantity of high-impact graphic imagery, first at Push Pin Studios, the countercultural and politically engaged design firm he established with Seymour Chwast and others; later at New York magazine, which he cofounded with Clay Felker; and then as an independent designer.

“Mr. Glaser’s designs could be amusing, even outright comic, but his wit and invention were undergirded by a profound seriousness about the history of art and the power of design.”  His work appeared in posters, logos, book covers and typefaces — “all with a vibrancy that was unmistakably New York,” Mr. Farago said.

Of his signature “I love New York” design, Mr. Glaser first scrawled a preliminary sketch on the outside of a torn envelope he found in the back of a taxi. “This was a design that did not just tell tourists we were open for business, but persuaded the residents of a near-bankrupt metropolis [1976] to hold their heads high,” Mr. Farago said.