Top 43 Massimo Vignelli Quotes
#1. It's the space you put between the notes that make the music.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
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#5. There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.
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#7. Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
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#9. You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.
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#10. If all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!
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#11. The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.
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#12. I'm not a designer, I'm a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around.
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#13. You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory - the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness - but the essence is timeless.
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#14. There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
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#17. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
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#19. 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.
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#20. In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.
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#21. If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.
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#22. Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
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#23. You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.
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#27. I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.
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#28. The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
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#29. I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
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#30. A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.
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#31. The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
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#34. The computer needs ... even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.
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#35. The only way to stay in fashion is never be in. If you are never in fashion, you are never out of fashion.
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#36. It's not important to develop your own style but your own approach.
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#39. You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.
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#41. The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.
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#42. Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
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#43. Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.
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