designwajskol an extensive range of projects created by the firm of the Italian-born designer Jonathan Wajskol over the last twenty-five years. The result is a visually driven experience that emphasizes a consistent design approach across all categories of design. The work ranges from editorial design to identities, way-finding, product design, interactive design, and info graphics. The book highlights fifty projects and spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Asia. A collection of essays by notable design historians, educators, and theorists, among them design-legend Massimo Vignelli, situates the work of designwajskol within the modernist tradition.

• Foreword by Massimo Vignelli
• Essays by Jonathan Wajskol, Maurizio Morgantini, Charles Nix, Jan Conradi, William Bevington and Chun-Wo Pat

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Contributors Biographies

Jonathan Wajskol is an Italian designer with one foot rooted in European design and the other firmly planted in lower Manhattan. Wajskol was born and raised in Milan, where he studied design and marketing and has over twenty years of experience in the field of visual communication, working for nonprofit institutions as well as the corporate sector. His expertise spans everything from print, new media, and packaging to corporate design programs. His involvement with Strategic Communication & Planning ensures a seamless integration of strategic visual and verbal communications, from the planning stages to completed product development. Wajskol has been teaching communication design for the last eighteen years and he is a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has received numerous awards both in America and Europe, and he has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and books.

Maurizio Morgantini, architect and designer (PhD, Politecnico di Milano, 1974), is the President of ISIA ROMA Design (AFAM, Ministry of Research and University) and the Scientific Director of FAAR Foundation – Center for Studies CSAR. He was vice-president of ADI, the Industrial Design Association, from 2001 to 2008 and president of the ADI Foundation for Italian Design from 2005 to 2008. In 2007 he founded the Italian Design Council, in association with the Italian Ministry of Culture. His projects include the renovation of an ancient 30,000 sq. mt. villa. in Milan, which was converted into an International Design Academy and Museum; the planning and design of a real estate development in Tripoli, Libya; the archetypal prototype for the Design Museum promoted by BPM Bank; the Master Urban Plan of the city of Vicenza; Resort Designs on Sardinia’s Emerald Coast; and the Trading and Stock Exchange floors for several prominent banks including Warburg, Credito Italiano, UIC Banca d’Italia, Cariplo, Deutsche Bank, etc.

Massimo Vignelli was an internationally known designer and lecturer whose work is in the collections of MOMA, The Cooper Hewitt, Le Museé des arts Décoratifs in Montreal, and Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. He had won numerous awards for his graphic design, corporate identity programs, architectural design, furniture, and product design. With his wife Lella, Massimo established Vignelli Associates in 1971 and Vignelli Designs in 1978. In 2010, the Vignelli Center for Design Studies was established at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Jan Conradi is a designer, educator, and lecturer. She is author of Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design, published by Lars Müller Publishers. Jan has taught graphic design, typography, and design history for over twenty-five years. She recently completed a biography titled: Lella and Massimo Vignelli – Two Lives, One Vision.

Charles Nix is a designer, typographer, and educator. He is a partner in the publishing firm Scott & Nix, Inc. and is chairman emeritus of the TDC (Type Directors Club), an international organization dedicated to furthering typographic excellence. He has taught design and typography for more than twenty years, and was Chair of Communication Design at the Parsons School of Design.

William M Bevington is an information designer and information theorist involved in the creation of visualizations for the rapid assessment of complex data. He is also dedicated to teaching practical methods for information visualization in both classroom and seminar environments. His goal is to show how well formulated info-theory can result in effective visual outcomes.Mr. Bevington co-established PIIM, the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping in 2002 under the vision of New School University’s President Bob Kerrey. He previously served as the Chairman of the Communication Design Department, Parsons School of Design. Former to these roles, he served several professorships at The Cooper Union. He coauthored “Working with Graphic Designers” and “Designing with Type” with Jim Craig. He is also the author of “Typography: The Principles, A Basic Guide to Using Type.” He is the editor-in-chief for PJIM, The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping. In addition, he has written many white papers and presented theory-based work on informative visualization at the National Academy of Science under the US NGA NARP program. Mr. Bevington has taught over 2,000 college-level classes, surpassing 6,000 in-class studio hours.

Chun-Wo Pat teaches Information Design and Typography at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and at CityTech, CUNY. He is the principal and owner of Whitespace Integrated Design, formed in 1996. His creative services intersect cultural institutions, community-based organizations and corporations in the US, Europe and Asia.