Quotes by Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli

…if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Design

Doctors

People

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

Designer

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it’s not to be exposed.

Consciousness

Grids

Underwear

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

Color

Extremes

Ifs

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Art

Design

Utilitarian

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

Design

Discipline

Exercise

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

Care

Lamps

Tables

Don’t be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage – if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage – you have to know when to leave the grid.

Cages

Lions

Long

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

Design

Discipline

Imagination

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

Design

Forever

Good Design

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Age

All Time

Answers

Approach

Art

Beautiful

Cages

Care

Cities

Clients

Color

Communication

Computer

Consciousness

Creativity

Culture

Cutting

Design

Designer

Dimensions

Discipline

Disease

Doctors

Dog

Drawing

Endless

Essence

Everyday

Exercise

Extremes

Fashion

Fighting

Forever

Furniture

Giving

Good Design

Graphic Design

Greed

Grids

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Information

Intellectual

Issues

Kids

Lamps

Language

Lasts

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Quotes by Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli

…if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it’s not to be exposed.

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

Don’t be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage – if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage – you have to know when to leave the grid.

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

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