As anyone who has been stuck in L hell knows perfectly well, the MTA's weekend ridership keeps hitting new highs—despite that being the time when the Authority, for various reasons, has to do the ...

We’d known that legendary designer Massimo Vignelli was sick: His son issued a plea to designers who were influenced by him to send him a letter, which surely flooded his home with well-designed ...

The Massimo Vignelli subway map (or, more accurately, subway diagram), introduced in 1972, was modeled after Harry Beck's simplified map of the London Underground, and modified aspects of New York ...

Massimo Vignelli, a graphic designer whose New York subway map both guided and confounded riders in the 1970s while generations of shoppers carried his Bloomingdale’s “brown bag,” has died. He was 83.

Renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, whose vision extended from subterranean transit maps to airline logos, died Tuesday at age 83. He had been ill and died at his Manhattan home, said Yoshiki ...

The towering Modernist designer Massimo Vignelli, whose approach brought streamlined, sometimes divisive, clarity to major brands and the NYC subway system, passed away today in Manhattan at age 83.

Based on Vignelli’s subway map design of 1972, the new diagram was updated with satellite data and revised to reflect the current system, colors, and nomenclature. It’s printed in Pantone and ...

Massimo Vignelli, who was perhaps the world's greatest modern designer, and whose Vignelli Center for Design Studies was built on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology to house his ...