Vignelli Center for Design Studies


The Vignelli Center for Design Studies, established in 2010, is a college of design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Named after the renown Italian designers, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, this 15,500 square foot facility also archives all the work the couple have done throughout the years.

History

The Vignelli Center for Design was made after Massimo and Lella Vignelli, in 2008, decided to donate their entire archive of design work to Rochester Institute of Technology.

Programs

Programs offered at the Vignelli Center for Design include graphic design, industrial design, interior design, new media design and imaging and computer graphics design. The college also has international exchange programs with the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany, and in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Collections

The Vignelli Collection

The Vignelli Collection is an archive of all of the couple's work over the past 50 years, including their ventures into graphic programs, publication design and packaging, transportation design, furniture, product, and exhibition design, jewelry, silverware, and even clothing.
Other than the Vignelli collection, the college also boasts 35 collections of modernist graphic designers such as Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Cipe Pineles, William Golden and Alvin Lustig, which the university had begun to collect from the mid-1980s.
While the archives are primarily for the purpose of studying, they are also open for public viewing.