From the Archive: Massimo Vignelli
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Legendary graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, best-known for creating the iconic New York City subway map, discusses intellectual elegance, education, love, the pitfalls of marketing, and his long career in design.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.0 | You know, killing culture is now less of a crime than killing people. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | Because it kills their mind. |
| 0:16.0 | And their spirit. |
| 0:17.0 | And their spirit. |
| 0:18.0 | But of course, if we would have to put in prison people that do this kind of crime, |
| 0:23.0 | they would be able to be too small as a prison. |
| 0:29.0 | From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. |
| 0:36.0 | For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with some of the world's most creative people about what they do, |
| 0:42.0 | how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. |
| 0:45.0 | And now, some of those interviews appear in print in Debbie's brand new book, |
| 0:50.0 | Why Design Matters, Conversations with the world's most creative people. |
| 0:54.0 | It's coming out in February of 2020. |
| 0:57.0 | In anticipation of the book, every Thursday, we're going to be releasing an interview from the archives, |
| 1:03.0 | in addition to our new episodes that come out on Mondays. |
| 1:06.0 | We thought it would be fun for listeners to hear not only some great interviews, |
| 1:10.0 | but also to hear how the podcast has evolved over the years. |
| 1:14.0 | So we're going to release the oldest ones first and proceed chronologically. |
| 1:18.0 | In September of 2010, Debbie interviewed the late great Italian designer, Massimo Vignelli. |
| 1:25.0 | They talked about his favorite typeface, his fight against vulgarity and meaningless design, |
| 1:30.0 | and what he means by forceful design. |
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