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1931–2014
Massimo Vignelli (January 10, 1931 – May 27, 2014) was an Italian designer who worked (together with his wife, the architect and designer Lella Vignelli) in a number of areas including packaging, housewares, furniture, public signage, architecture, and interior design.
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We like design to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
How can you communicate without knowing the rest of culture?
We need to value meaning over form. For the past 60 years, we've put form before meaning. If, over the next 50 years, we put meaning over form, then we might get the proper balance.
It’s a matter of discipline, and it starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.
It is not enough that something — a chair, an exhibition, a book, a magazine — looks good and is well designed. The 'why' and the 'how', the very process of design itself, must be equally evident and quite beyond the tyranny of individual taste.
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. So come and see A Few Basic Typefaces.