Massimo Vignelli est né le 10 janvier 1931 à Milan, Lombardie, Italie. Il était marié à Lella Vignelli. Il est mort le 27 mai 2014 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis.
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."
