So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesnโt have to be one style. Weโre not talking about style, weโre talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.
Massimo VignelliThe 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.
Massimo VignelliMost of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
Massimo VignelliI started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.
Massimo VignelliI grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.
Massimo Vignelli