Another great one gone, but remembered

Slate has an article by Kristin Hohenadel about the design world's honor for the late Massimo Vignelli:

The spirit of the late great designer Massimo Vignelli, who died in 2014 at the age of 83, will perhaps always haunt the streets and underground tunnels of New York City, where the signage and wayfinding system he designed for the subway with Bob Noorda in the late 1960s has become one of the city’s most familiar visual cues.
More than a year after Vignelli’s death, the graphic designers at Spain’s Husmee Estudio Graphique asked dozens of the designer’s peers to create posters commemorating the man and his work.
Many of the designs incorporate Vignelli's preference for Bodoni and Helvetica. Some riff on the New York City subway design that appears to be the world’s message on his tombstone. Others mimic the design process of choosing the weight or placement of typeface letters. The tributes tend to use a simple palette of black, white, and red or the rainbow hues of New York City subway lines. There are odes to timelessness, stylized versions of his initials and of the years he arrived and left Earth, and few hand-drawn portraits of the man himself.
Taken together, the posters offer both a kaleidoscopic overview of how the design world saw Vignelli and an informal study in variations on a theme that reveal something about the individuality of the design process.
But the entry from Beatriz Cifuentes and Yoshiki Waterhouse, Vignelli’s associates for the last fifteen years of his life, offers a tiny, intimate glimpse of how Vignelli himself viewed the world of design:

“For Massimo Vignelli, the number 23, tightly kerned in Helvetica, represented graphic perfection,” the designers write in a helpful nugget of explanatory text printed in the upper righthand corner. “He loved its clean curves, negative spaces, and tension between the two ‘kissing’ numerals. He always looked for any opportunity to use it.”
Timeless is on until 31 August 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. All the posters can be viewed online here.

Rico says that, when he was a student in the design department at Carnegie-Mellon, Vignelli was a god...