Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli

[Played Dec. 1 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra's educational, engaging, fascinating, in-depth, insightful, 86-minute, 2012 documentary in which influential, renowned, groundbreaking Italian designers and visual architect team of Massimo and Lella Vignelli discuss their unique vision and design process, branding, graphics, and typography in designing an eclectic variety of products, including furniture, glassware, dinnerware lighting fixtures, books, silverware, flatware, jewelry, watches, pitchers, logos, candle holders, vases, fashion, interior design, pamphlets, posters, and subway map, and consists of commentary by senior curator and author Paola Antonelli, designers (such as Jessica Helfand, Michael Donovan, Michael Bierut, and Milton Glaser), professor Virginia Smith, vice president Beatrice Vignelli, architects (such as Richard Meier, Hugh Jacobsen, and Peter Eisenman), Heller, Inc. owner Alan Heller, pastor Jared Stahler, Rochester Institute of Technology President William Wallace Destler, marketing consultant Jeffrey J. Osborne, restaurant owner Tony May, artist Sheila Hicks, art curator Barry Bergdoll, and publisher David Morton.
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