Inspiration

Bloomingdales

Artist: Massimo Vignelli Bloomingdale’s department store was celebrating their 100th anniversary in 1972 and hired Massimo Vignelli to give them a new graphic identity. This new identity included a custom typeface, Bloomingtype, which combines the typefaces Avant Garde and Futura. Details Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bloomingdales-packaging-vignelli-massimo/UQG1TeBBgge-yw?hl=en

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Handkercheif Chair

Artist: Massimo Vignelli The Handkerchief chair, designed for the Knoll furniture company by Lella and Massimo Vignelli and available in a range of colors, offers a playful take on the traditional stacking office chair. The flowing shape of its synthetic seat is ergonomic and suggests weightlessness, like a handkerchief floating in the breeze. The fruitful,

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Knoll

Artist: Massimo Vignelli Massimo studied architecture before founding the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in 1960 with his wife, Lella. The pair established Vignelli Associates in 1971, a vehicle for focusing on projects that incorporated their industrial, furniture and graphic design talents. In 1967, Bobby Cadwallader retained Massimo Vignelli to create a new graphics

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Subway Map

Artist: Massimo Vignelli When New York’s independently managed subway lines came under centralized governmental control in 1953, it became clear that the perplexing experience of navigating the vast network needed to be addressed. This subway map was an attempt to simplify an earlier three-colorversion that was geographically accurate but visually confusing. It emerged from a

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