The Vignelli Canon designbriefyear2 Numerous illustrations show a multitude

Numerous illustrations show a multitude of ways the font has been used in five decades from a wide variety of fields—from signal design to party flyers

Strikethrough charts a typographic chant of resistance across more than a century of protest graphics—from nineteenth-century antislavery broadsides to the colorful posters of the Paris 1968 uprising

and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread

Celestino Piatti

made a dummy

The Vignelli Canon designbriefyear2 Numerous illustrations show a multitudeWe grew up with Massimo Vignelli and didn't even know it. Thats probably true for most of us since he was one of the most influential designers of the 20th century and his work was (and is) ubiquitous. But at our house at 45 Bannan Drive, every morning we ate cereal out of his Heller bowls. (Plates and mugs were used for lunch. Something more mundane [No offense, Mom.] was used for dinner.) These 112 pages do not simply contain a survey of Vignellis