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.

Poster advertising the School of Visual Arts' "third in a series of exhibitions honoring the great visual communicators of our time." February 22 to March 8, 1991 at the Visual Arts Museum; exhibition of the 'basic' typefaces Vignelli famously used for all projects. Poster reproduced in The Vignelli Canon, pg29 (2010). Vignelli comments further in the Canon retrospective that