In 1957, a Swiss typographer was commissioned to design something the world had never seen: a typeface with no personality. No historical weight. No meaning of its own. Just letters that got...
For over 50 years, one map has divided designers, urban planners, and millions of New York City riders. In 1972, Massimo Vignelli reimagined the subway map as a radical, colorful diagram, stripping...
One of the most controversial things Massimo Vignelli had ever said was that in design we only need a few basic typefaces to be successful. If you don’t know the Vignelli’s, they...