Vignellis

One of the first really exciting things I did in the Chicago design community was volunteer at the book launch party for Unimark with the STA. Massimo Vignelli wrote the introduction to the book and was the special guest at the event that brought together former colleagues and friends from Unimark. I had the joy of tagging along for dinner afterward and the opportunity to eat with so many founding members of Chicago design was exhilerating. When I feverishly recounted the story to my parents, they had no idea who Massimo Vignelli was, but they immediately responded to his work. Such a legend, and so classy.
Needless to say, I was thrilled when design work life mentioned an interview with Massimo about working with his wife for 50 years. It made me love him even more, if that's possible. You can read the interview here as part of idsgn's series on Design Love.

johnny miller

As someone who arranges possessions obsessively, prizes color and composition, and collects thrift store glass, Johnny Miller's glass arrangements warmed my soul. Beautifully lit.

(via Oh Joy)

waves

How gorgeous are these specimen pages from Fountain Type's Atlantik type family? Limitless possibilities with all the ease and capabilities of a font. Genius.

Today brought to you by the letter M. No, really.

I love letters. You knew that, right? I've been following Lettercult's Alphabattle since somewhere around D. Although I've never entered, it's a delightful thing to view individual responses to such an open-ended prompt.
Today, the results for M were posted. There are always a few that I really appreciate, but Martin Bunyi's submission made me stop, stare, and research. Beautiful.

Turns out Martin is a former NYC-area web designer taking a five month sabbatical in rural Pennsylvania.  "About the medium, I am just continuing the history of story telling through embroidery, telling my story. It is as simple as that."
The projects featured on his website are all embroidery-based. My favorites were a series of skateboard deck "test projects."