Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014

Gestern verstarb der modernistische Grafikdesigner Massimo Vignelli in New York, jener Stadt, deren U-Bahn-Plan er 1973 gestaltete und 2011 als App neu erfand.

In einem Nachruf schreibt sein Schüler Michael Bierut:

„It was Massimo who taught me one of the simplest things in the world: that if you do good work, you get more good work to do, and conversely bad work brings more bad work. It sounds simple, but it’s remarkable, in a lifetime of pragmatics and compromises, how easy it is to forget: the only way to do good work is simply to do good work. Massimo did good work.“