About That Vignelli Canon

• Last sentence from “The Vignelli Canon”

“The Vignelli Canon” is a highly recommended collection of guidelines “set by ourselves for ourselves,” as Massimo Vignelli, one of design’s great village elders, puts it in the introduction.

Throughout his career, MV applied and perfected his views on what makes good design. He distilled his approach into principles which produce what he would consider good results.

Michael Bierut, who has worked at Vignelli Associates for 10 years before becoming a partner at Pentagram, wrote an article on how these strict guidelines and rules made him a better designer.

MV’s Canon is an elegant text which is a pleasure to read. So go ahead, download “The Vignelli Canon” (PDF), follow the footsteps of a great designer and discover how he gets to that fulfilling coda.

Posted by Simon on April 12th 2011 in Seen and Found

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