Week #4 Massimo Vignelli

a permanent Vignelli exhibition [around 1981]. To get to the office, I rode in a subway with Vignelli-designed signage shared the sidewalk with people holding Vignelli-designed Bloomingdale’s shopping bags, walked by St. Peter’s Church with its Vignelli-designed pipe organ visible through the window. At Vignelli Associates, at 23 years old, I felt I was at the center of the universe.

       Vignelli passed away in New York in 2011. I think his former employee said it all about Vignelli’s accomplishments. However, it was noted in the begging of this article Vignelli’s

Ethos,  His ethos was, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this was reflected in the broad range of his work. “I thought that was inspirational”.