45 Quotes by Massimo Vignelli

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it’s not to be exposed.

It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren’t there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.