{"id":110,"date":"2025-09-30T03:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:09:21","slug":"what-i-think-after-reading-the-vignelli-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"What I Think After Reading The Vignelli Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vignelli strips design down to the basics: meaning first, always maintain structure, and lastly keep discipline in the details. The booklet\u2019s light on words because the point is simple: good design isn\u2019t decoration, but rather it\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What stuck with me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Semantics (meaning):<\/strong> decide the message before touching type or color. If the form doesn\u2019t serve the message, it\u2019s noise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Syntactics (structure):<\/strong> use a grid, align edges, set a clear hierarchy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pragmatics (clarity):<\/strong> if people can\u2019t read it fast, it fails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Discipline:<\/strong> fewer fonts, cleaner spacing, purposeful color.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why it matters to me<\/strong><br>This gives me an order of operations I can actually follow: message first, then grid, next type, and lastly color. It\u2019ll keep my posts cleaner and my images easier to read. This is exactly what I want as I keep building out the rest of this design unit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vignelli strips design down to the basics: meaning first, always maintain structure, and lastly keep discipline in the details. The booklet\u2019s light on words because the point is simple: good design isn\u2019t decoration, but rather it\u2019s decisions. What stuck with me Why it matters to meThis gives me an order of operations I can actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}