A few weeks ago we excerpted a Graphis interview from a then-70-year-old Milton Glaser who had some interesting things to say about technology and work ethic almost 20 years ago.
He’s still talking about the subject today. In the book, Twenty Over Eighty (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), authors Aileen Kwun and Bryn Smith sit down with twenty masters of architecture and design over the age of eighty.
Here is some of what Glaser, who turns 88 this year, had to say about technology and the continuation of his career:
What kind of tools do you use, and how have the changes in technology influenced the practice of design? Do you use the computer often, or do you try to avoid it?
Well, I use the computer every day, but I don’t touch the computer—I always have somebody by my side. But I also know more about how to use a computer than most people because I am not dominated by the computer’s sensibility.
One of the problems with the computer is that it is such a powerful too that people become susceptible to its will. The computer forces people, as all tools do, to work in a way that it likes to work—you begin thinking in a way that the computer prefers, and everything comes out looking the same.
