New York Subway Map, 1972. Designed by Massimo Vignelli. When the New York City MTA hired Vignelli to develop a new plan for its subway navigation, he was tasked with streamlining the wayfinding process for riders and bringing New York into the future. Train routes were straightened into neat angles to make a tidy diagram out of the actual snarl of criss-crossing tunnels. Forty years later, graphic designers still laud Vignelli’s map as a triumph and a major breakthrough in information graphics. The rest is history…
Month: May 2014
Standards can be a beautiful thing
NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual designed by Massimo Vignelli, 1970.
Viva Vignelli
Advertisement for Pirelli Pneumatic Tires, 1963. Designed by Massimo Vignelli.
From sketch to printed piece
Knoll brochure for Saarinen collection, 1970. Designed by Massimo Vignelli/Unimark International with photography by Nils Bygholm. (vignellicenter)
Show business
Know your type
Type specimens, 1906
Summer at the beach
Mulberry Spring/Summer Campaign featuring Frida Gustavsson and Lindsey Wixson. Photographed by Tim Walker.
Last licks
99×99s | Luke Stephenson. London-based Stephenson looks at a full study of the quintessential inexpensive British ice cream dessert which is simply a swirl of vanilla ice cream spat unceremoniously into a flimsy synthetic cone. In the age of artisanal everything, nice to harken back to simpler times…
The American Farmer’s Pictorial Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Periam, Jonathan & A.H. Baker.
Hermione by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
