
Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies

The Vignelli Canon
An exploration of the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of design, and the principles that guide the work of Massimo Vignelli.
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The third segment of a value cycle is reverse logistics, and the most efficient value cycles are the shortest. Value-cycle owners always have an incentive to move production as close to consumption as possible to minimize how far resources have to flow to be recycled, remanufactured, repurposed, and reused.