{"id":14154,"date":"2021-09-01T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:55:11","slug":"14154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/14154\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: MASSIMO VIGNELLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Massimo Vignelli was an acclaimed graphic designer <\/span>who probably more than anyone else, is credited for introducing a European Modernist point of view to American graphic design. Vignelli\u2019s work has been exhibited in North America and Europe. It is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, as well as museums in Philadelphia, Montreal, Jerusalem, Munich and Hamburg, Germany. He will be best remembered for his focus on simplicity, and his use of basic geometric forms, a theme throughout all of his work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> <span class=\"first3words\">INSCRIBED BY MASSIMO VIGNELLI <\/span>in silver on the front free end page &#8220;To Natasha Hopkinson with <a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16hkE9s4ButeBRcBbOg3g60_57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatR size-medium wp-image-14160\" title=\"signed by Vignelli\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16hkE9s4ButeBRcBbOg3g60_57-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16hkE9s4ButeBRcBbOg3g60_57-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16hkE9s4ButeBRcBbOg3g60_57-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16hkE9s4ButeBRcBbOg3g60_57.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>congratulations &#8211;\u00a0 Massimo Vignelli&#8221;. Hard bound with dust jacket. First printing of the first edition.\u00a0 Original black cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover, spine lettered in white. Writing in pen on page 262, otherwise with interior clean. Vignelli Associates work in the modernist tradition, focusing on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms. Their designs range from package design to furniture design and from public signage to showroom design.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 31096<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16RHJHwE9n8ihqbyBRcBbP6jvw60_57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14155\" title=\"Design: Vignelli\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16RHJHwE9n8ihqbyBRcBbP6jvw60_57-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16RHJHwE9n8ihqbyBRcBbP6jvw60_57-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16RHJHwE9n8ihqbyBRcBbP6jvw60_57-1024x991.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T2eC16RHJHwE9n8ihqbyBRcBbP6jvw60_57.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Design: Vignelli<\/strong><em><br \/>\nCelant, Germano<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massimo Vignelli was an acclaimed graphic designer who probably more than anyone else, is credited for introducing a European Modernist point of view to American graphic design. 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