Lella Vignelli

Recent articles about Lella Vignelli

Gender and amnesia

Issue 97, Autumn 2018

Review

Women Design features the work of 25 female designers and architects from the Bauhaus to…

Advice from a mentor you may never meet

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Feature

The ethos behind the Hall of Femmes series is to pass down stories, advice and experiences to a new generation of female art directors and designers

Recalling the Vignelli experience

Issue 54, Winter 2004

Review

‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…

The Vignellis: a thoroughly Modernist marriage

Issue 60, Summer 2006

Opinion

Lella and Massimo Vignelli talk to Eye’sJohn L. Walters and Simon Esterson

Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Review

This year’s AIGA conference had no theme other than ‘Design’, set in capitals against a twinkling sea of words.

A grid for all occasions

Issue 2, Winter 1990

Review

Lella and Massimo Vignelli design by the grid, but they also live and work by…

Blog posts by Lella Vignelli

Mission America

3 March 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Typography

New York was Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s kind of town. They were New York’s kind of designers. A profile from the 1980s by Rick Poynor
Entering the New York offices of Massimo and Lella Vignelli is like crossing the threshold…

Giants of the visual imagination

29 October 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

While others struggle with ‘personal expression’, the Vignellis prove that a simple approach and focus makes great design, writes Quentin Newark.
Quentin Newark writes: As I was designing the catalogue for the Tate Modern exhibition ‘Albers…