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Massimo Vignelli, celebrated designer, dies at 83
- jamessun 12y ago“We despise the culture of obsolescence, the culture of waste, the cult of the ephemeral,” reads a sort of design manifesto titled “The Vignelli Canon.” “We detest the demand of temporary solutions, the waste of energies and capital for the sake of novelty. We are for a Design that lasts, that responds to people’s needs and to people’s wants.”
- jamessun 12y ago“There are too many people with no education in graphic design. And because they have access to computers, there’s no end to what they create — signage, newsletters and so forth,” he once told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “It’s pollution! They have no idea whatsoever about the dignity of type. If they were pharmaceuticals companies, we’d all be poisoned. But we are poisoned anyhow, visually.”
- r0muald 12y agoOther thread here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805532> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805532>