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Recent articles about Massimo Vignelli

Magic and logicIssue 103, Summer 2022
Review

                                                How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…                        
Design history disciplinedIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…                        
Glorious transitIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                Let’s face it, graphic design is short of real drama. There are no good design…                        
Reputations: Massimo VignelliIssue 83, Summer 2012
Feature

                                            
	‘I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through politics or entertainment but through design. I strive to raise the bar a few inches, taking the commonplace and improving it.’            
Recalling the Vignelli experienceIssue 54, Winter 2004
Review

                                                ‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…                        
Naked wordsIssue 82, Winter 2011
Feature

                                            
	Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves – have always had a place in publication design.            
Mining the graphic mother-lodeOpinion

                                            
	Rochester Institute of Technology opens its American design archive to the online world. Critique by Rick Poynor            
The Vignellis: a thoroughly Modernist marriageIssue 60, Summer 2006
Opinion

                                            Lella and Massimo Vignelli talk to Eye’sJohn L. Walters and Simon Esterson            
Read me! Part 1. Literacy in graphic designIssue 37, Autumn 2000
Feature

                                            
	Graphic designers are responsible for the communication of ideas through words, signs and pictures. Yet experimentation and new aesthetics cannot emerge without a thorough understanding of reading and writing: if we accept that language is important, we must be prepared to protect it            
Changing of the guardIssue 8, Autumn 1992
Opinion

                                            
	American graphic design is divided. The once rebellious avant-garde has become the status quo, while the new guard shun their elders’ example and adhere to few of the old ‘isms’            
The (layered) vision thingIssue 8, Autumn 1992
Opinion

                                            
	If it has dotted lines, an arrow or two and it’s impossible to read, then it must be ‘postmodern’. Are we using the theory the way it was intended?            
Cult of the uglyIssue 9, Summer 1993
Feature

                                            
	Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get here and is there any way out?            
A grid for all occasionsIssue 2, Winter 1990
Review

                                                Lella and Massimo Vignelli design by the grid, but they also live and work by…                        
I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who canIssue 13, Summer 1994
Opinion

                                            
	British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the computer a new ‘language’ or simply a tool?
	By Michael Horsham            

Recent blog posts about Massimo Vignelli

Milan in Shoreditch

13 June 2015
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Typography

Celebrated at Eye’s 12 June event, ‘Made In Italy’ is a book and an (all-too-short) exhibition with work by Grignani, Iliprandi, Noorda and many more

Eye’s ‘Made In Italy’ event took place on 2015’s hottest day (so far) at a…

A glimpse of Italian graphics

5 June 2015
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Typography

‘Made In Italy’, a brief chance to see the work of midcentury Italian graphic design masters – Friday 12 & Saturday 13 June 2015

Next week there’s a brief chance for Londoners to see work by some postwar masters…

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…

Timeless: Massimo Vignelli

20 February 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Information design, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Fellow designers celebrate the life and work of Massimo Vignelli at an exhibition in San Sebastián

A new exhibition at the Okendo Cultural Centre in San Sebastián, Spain, celebrates the life…

Noted #48

21 January 2013
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Visual culture

Illustration, music, life and death.

Here are a few links to exhibitions, illustrations and events that caught our attention in…

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…