The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
Massimo VignelliThe computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
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 like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
Massimo VignelliScale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.
Massimo Vignelli