Massimo Vignelli nasceu o 10 de janeiro de 1931 em Milão, Lombardia, Itália. Foi casado com Lella Vignelli. Morreu o 27 de maio de 2014 em Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque, EUA.
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."
