Massimo Vignelli was born on 10 January 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was married to Lella Vignelli. He died on 27 May 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
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."
