Remembering Massimo
"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 its really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work." Massimo Vignelli, Helvetica
"This typeface is changing your life [excerpts]," by Leslie Savan, p. 116, The Village Voice, June 7, 1976 [photocopy]
11” x 17”
Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
ted:
This is a DNA Vending Machine.
Each of those little vials holds human DNA, with a collectible photo of the person who donated it. You can buy it just like you’d buy a Coke or a bag of chips, and then you can do…whatever. (What do you actually do with a sample of DNA?)
TED Fellow Gabe Barcia-Colombo created the vending machine as an art installation. He gathered a bunch of his friends on Friday nights and taught them how to extract their own DNA — the weirdest/coolest dinner party idea of all time. (In the photos above, the floating white stuff is the DNA.) Then, with their permission, he sold it.
Of course, there’s a bigger question behind all this: Who owns your DNA? And what should strangers or scientists be able to do with yours? Gabe wants to push people to think about the ethical and legal questions we’ll have to answer as access to biotechnology increases.
What do you think, would you be willing to sell your DNA?
My solo show is soon Turning Right Instead of Left
Self portrait, makes me think of Francis Bacon for some reason.
these are awesome
My favorite is “shepards pie”!
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Remembering Massimo
"Their graphics, corporate-design programs, and products have become recognized staples, if not traditions, for most of us."
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Remembering Massimo
"Their graphics, corporate-design programs, and products have become recognized staples, if not traditions, for most of us."
DESIGN / Massimo and Lella Vignelli [excerpt], by C. Ray Smith, p. 42-46, Avenue, November 1978 [Photograph by Duane Michals]
8 1/4” x 11”
Box 287, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
"Since 2010, I traveled throughout Europe to meet men and women who made the radical choice to live away from cities, willing to abandon their lifestyle based on performance, efficiency and consumption. The people and places depicted in my pictures display various fates which I think should not only be seen at a political level, but more importantly, as daily and immediate experiences. These are, in some ways, spontaneous responses to the societies these men and women have left behind. This documentary project is an attempt to make a kind of contemporary tale and to give back a little bit of magic to our modern civilisation."
OPENDOORS // Antoine Bruy, Scrubland [1/2]
Remembering Massimo
"No matter who you are or where you live, the chances are that your life is touched nearly every day by the work of Lella and Massimo Vignelli."
"The Vignelli Influence," by Evelyn Della Corte, p. 61-67, Attenzione, September 1979
8 1/2” x 10 3/4”
Box 287, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
-Maya Angelou
Anais Nin working a letterpress machine, 1942.
This blows my mind.
Like a bawse.
Discipline, quality vs. quantity, and the power of “intellectual elegance” – remembering the great Massimo Vignelli, who died on Monday.
“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”
“Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?”
