Massimo Vignelli nació el 10 de enero de 1931 en Milán, Lombardía, Italia. Estuvo casado con Lella Vignelli. Murió el 27 de mayo de 2014 en Nueva York, Nueva York, EE.UU..
At age 16, he became an architectural draftsman. He studied art and architecture in Milan and Venice, and worked as a designer for Venini Glass, a renowned manufacturer on the island of Murano.
[remarking that he would have liked the job of developing a corporate identity for the Vatican] I would go to the pope and say, "Your holiness, the logo [the cross] is O.K. but everything else has to go."
