#faxes

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Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.

The social media behemoth is about to face off with the tax agency in a rare trial to capture billions that the IRS thinks Facebook owes. But onerous budget cuts have hamstrung the agency’s ability to bring the case.

Based on her time at Google, Sandberg soon decided that one area where Facebook was behind its peers was in its tax dodging. “My experience is that by not having a European center and running everything through the US, it is very costly in terms of taxes,” she wrote other executives in an April 2008 email, which hasn’t been previously reported. Facebook’s head of tax agreed, replying that the company needed to find “a low taxed jurisdiction to park profits.”

[vignellicenter]

Happy Birthday, Dale Chihuly!

The Vignellis partnered with the glass artist on a many projects over the years. In 1997, Massimo Vignelli designed a thick retrospective catalog on Chihuly's work. In 1999, Massimo faxed Chihuly about commissioning a piece for over the fireplace at the Vignellis home. He even sketched it in place. He imagined a piece made of a "Medusa" of snakes like Chihuly installed in Venice in 1996. Sadly, it seems the art commission never happened.

More Chihuly collaboration with the Vignellis from the archives:  http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/search/chihuly

Chihuly book [excerpts], 1997 Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York

Facsimile from Massimo Vignelli to Dale Chihuly with sketch, 1999 Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York

Portrait of Lella Vignelli in her home (Photograph by Arnold Newman), Town & Country magazine,  September 1988 Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York

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Sometimes designers must unite and stand up for good design, even if that means standing up to @nasa! In 1992, NASA was planning to change their graphic identity created by Dunne & Blackburn after 17 years. AIGA heard and put out a call to action! 

Massimo Vignelli wrote a letter saying "The NASA program is part of our culture, and should be protected, not discarded." Here you can read the faxed conversation with the AIGA Board of Directors, which included Massimo. And a powerful letter from Caroline Hightower, AIGA executive director 1977-1995.

You can view the whole standards manual for Dunne & Blackburn’s graphic identity for NASA here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-graphics-standards-manual 

Correspondence regarding NASA graphic identity change, 1992 8.5” x 11” Box 269, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York

[dreaming-of-black-clouds]

The most frustrating part of my job at times is finding a fax number. The number of places that still use fax but don't list the fax number is incredible.

[chambordmem0ri3s]

i made a moodboard for this fax i had to send today

[kiss-investments]

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