Miller, Irving

Irving Miller was born on December 7, 1918, in New York City. While a student at City College of New York, he designed book jackets for Random House, MacMillan, Alfred A. Knopf, Dodd Mead and Harper and freelanced for the newly formed CBS radio network. Upon graduation in 1939, he taught the first course in graphic design offered by City College. During World War II, he joined the Office of War Information (OWI) as the art director of war posters, working with leading artists such as Norman Rockwell, Ben Shahn, David Stone Martin, and others to produce a wide range of posters. He was later appointed art director of the OWI. Following the end of the war, he was appointed art director at CBS where he received numerous awards. Some of his work was published in major graphic design magazines and was featured in several highly successful one-man shows. He left CBS in 1958 to open his own graphic design studio on Lexington Avenue where, over the next twenty-five years, he worked for major clients such as IBM, International Paper, Westvaco, American Bank Note, and the Roman Catholic Church. Following his retirement in 1995, he continued in the graphic design field, as well as fine art painting.