A self-styled “information architect,” Massimo Vignelli gave Modernist shape to book covers, shopping bags, furniture, corporate logos and, famously, a subway map.
Massimo Vignelli untangled the NYC subway with his famous 1972 map
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
One of the greats of graphic design has left us. I will remember him for the NYC subway map which I treated like a collectors item when it was published.
