{"id":391,"date":"2007-10-30T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/leila-and-massimo-vignelli-on-living-by-design\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T05:03:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:03:50","slug":"leila-and-massimo-vignelli-on-living-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/leila-and-massimo-vignelli-on-living-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila and Massimo Vignelli on living by design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/ny-subway-map.jpg\" title=\"new york subway map by massimo vignelli\" alt=\"new york subway map by massimo vignelli\" height=\"517\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Massimo Vignelli has been an influential promoter on Swiss industrial graphic design &#8212; design that tends to expose an underlying grid and often uses only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/typehead\/helvetica.htm\" title=\"helvetica typeface\">Helvetica <\/a>for type. He designed, for example, the New York City subway map shown above, in which the grid is apparent and is effectively used as a means of clearly presenting essential information. In the video below, Leila and Massimo Vignelli discuss some of items they have designed for use in their living space.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dAZK7F13MCw&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dAZK7F13MCw&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/The%20Gastrointestinal%20System%20Represented%20As%20A%20Subway%20Map\" title=\"gastrointestinal subway map\" target=\"_blank\">The gastrointestinal system as a subway map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massimo Vignelli has been an influential promoter on Swiss industrial graphic design &#8212; design that tends to expose an underlying grid and often uses only Helvetica for type&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}