"Dot Zero" Magazine
Massimo Vignelli
Italian, 1931–2014
Lella Vignelli
Italian, 1934–2016
1966-67
A lithographed cover for the experimental magazine Dot Zero 2 in which Massimo Vignelli reduces editorial identity to spare shapes and a quiet sans‑serif title, aiming for a modern, measured visual presence.
You immediately see a dark, camouflage‑like field of organic, interlocking gray shapes that dissolve into a flat lower plane, the whole composition quietly anchored by the small white "dot zero 2" title in the upper‑right.
The cover exemplifies Vignelli’s modernist reduction—part of a 1960s shift that reshaped editorial and corporate graphic design by privileging clarity, geometry, and restrained typography.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Each: 12 x 9" (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
381.2004.1-4
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
