Massimo Vignelli

Massimo Vignelli was a famous graphic/industrial designer, born in Milan, Italy. He studies architecture in Milan in the early 1950s and then started his career working as a designer at Venini Glass in Venice. In 1957, he married Lella Valle in 1957, who he also worked with for many years. They shortly moved to America, where he taught at the Institute of Design, Illinois. He also joined the Container Corporation of America as a designer. He later formed is own firm, Vignelli Associates, in New York, in 1971. Vegnelli was a founding member of Unimark International Corporation. He designed logos for large companies like American Airlines, J.C. Penney, United States National Park Service, even the New York transit systems map, Knoll Associates, just to name a few.