Massimo and Leila Vignelli
((1931- ) )
Birthplace
Italy
Massimo Vignelli
and wife Lella served as graphic and advertising design consultants
to Knoll during the 1970s. They championed a graphic design for
Knoll, which made them famous worldwide, and which continues to
inform the company's work. Mr.Vignelli once described the Knoll
assignment as "the most exciting, rewarding" of his professional
career. The Vignelli work provided the foundation for all basic
communication needs, including stationery, business cards,
stickers, tags, boxes, brochures and four-color ads for trade
magazines and publications like The New Yorker, Vogue and Fortune.
The Vignellis have also collaborated on myriad projects
incorporating their industrial, furniture and graphic design
talents. Their New York firm, Vignelli Associates, applies a
Modernist aesthetic to each assignment, polishing each artifact to
a glossy finish that reflects clarity, beauty and functionality. In
2003, the couple received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
