The Vignelli Canon
By on March 7, 2009 9:31 AM | No Comments
Massimo Vignelli has always been one of my favorite designers, one of the last of the classic 1960s lean-clean modernists still active today. We highlighted his superb modular print design system for the U.S. National Park Service in the latest edition of the Web Style Guide. If you've ever been on a New York subway, you seen Vignelli's work: he did the iconic New York subway system map.
Vignelli has recently released The Vignelli Canon, a free PDF document of his core design philosophy. The original Vignelli site has been hammered by demand for the PDF, so I've also posted it here for downloading.
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