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 AIGA - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman, who died on May 2, 1999, after a long, courageous battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was one of the few graphic designers whose accomplishments were legend within the field and widely known outside as well.
Tibor may not be as influential on the daily practice of graphic design as the Mac, but his sway over how designers think — indeed, how they define their roles in culture and society — is indisputable.
Tibor was criticized for using the issue of homelessness as a public relations ploy to garner attention for M&Co. And indeed he was a master at piquing public interest in just this way.
www.aiga.org /content.cfm?contentalias=tiborkalman   (2162 words)

  
 AIGA - The student: Tibor's class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tibor not only wanted to teach us how to use our selected photographs to tell a good story, but demanded that we understand their impact: "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Tibor wanted us to make decisions from the heart, because these, he assured us, would make the most compelling stories: "If it's going to be any good, it's going to be from the subconscious," he said.
Tibor had only known us for a matter of weeks, yet remarkably he was determined to devote some of his precious last days to our enlightenment.
www.aiga.org /content.cfm?CategoryID=109   (551 words)

  
 Salon Obituary | Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When designer Tibor Kalman died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma on May 2 in Puerto Rico, surrounded by his wife, Maira, and family, he died as he had lived and worked: on his own terms and with the generosity of spirit and optimism that touched everyone who knew him.
Kalman was best known for the groundbreaking work he created with his New York design firm, M&Co, and his brief yet influential editorship of Colors magazine.
Kalman combined his desire to break new ground visually with a passionate commitment to social causes.
www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/05/19/kalman/print.html   (1110 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Over the past twenty years Tibor Kalman and the work of M&Co have rejected the slick, superficial application of design that was so widespread in the 1980s for a sort of "undesign" that embraced the vernacular.
Born in Budapest and a resident of the United States since 1956, Kalman was raised in Poughkeepsie, New York and educated at New York University.
In 1979 Kalman established the multidisciplinary design firm M&Co, which appealed to a generation of clients who were receptive to popular culture.
www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_tibor_kalman.html   (614 words)

  
 loud paper : articles
In true Tibor fashion, the nine parts of the exhibition include such installations as a humor house, complete with Yanni cologne dedicated to the muzacian himself ("one people, one planet, all Yanni"); an advocacy jail containing a 1946 electric chair from South Dakota and finally, a forest beyond the village with no trees.
The success of the exhibition, and the work of Tibor in general, is rooted in the simple and profound idea that bad design is good design is bad design (in the Michael Jackson sense of the word).
Tibor argued his whole professional life that being good is a waste of time.
www.loudpapermag.com /article.php?id=25   (1529 words)

  
 ArtForum: Half empty - profile of graphic designer Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman is a graphic designer, a crafter of corporate logos, a producer of presentation materials, a maker of menus and restaurant posters.
Beyond Kalman's brilliance, the book is a parade of horrors, a reminder of all the things that were celebrated as authentic and transgressive over the last twenty years - each looking hollow, craven, and embarrassingly wrong with age.
Kalman may be best known for Colors magazine, that triumph of agitprop emptiness published by Benetton and edited by the graphic designer from 1991 to 1995.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_37/ai_54050177   (951 words)

  
 Tributes and Profiles: Tibor Kalman | Tibor Kalman Tribute | Robins Design .com
Born in Budapest in 1949, Tibor Kalman and his parents were forced to flee the Soviet invasion in 1956.
A resident of the United States since 1956, Tibor Kalman was raised in Poughkeepsie, New York and educated at New York University.
Kalman returned to New York in 1995 and re-established MandCo in 1997, and subsequently engaged in a range of design work, including book projects and nontraditional art exhibition designs for NYNY: City of Ambition (1996) at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Keith Haring (1997) at both the Whitney and SFMOMA.
www.robinsdesign.com /b_tributes_kalman.html   (312 words)

  
 New Statesman: Wit's end - humorous graphic designer Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kalman ran an influential New York design studio called M&Co from the early 1980s until his death from cancer at the age of 49, with a break of several years in Italy where he edited the Benetton magazine Colors.
Kalman knew it was stupid to dissect a joke, and it was rare that he would say anything profound about his own work.
Kalman was demanding to work with and exhausting to be with - when he came to dinner, he poured our cheap wine down the sink and confided to us that his name derived from that of Emperor Tiberius, and was forgiven for both.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4438_128/ai_55237849   (1049 words)

  
 20 Years: AIDS & Photography
Tibor didn’t think it was a crime for companies that really cared about what they were espousing socially to also make money.
Tibor and his team spent a long time agonizing over colorizing the image, which they did, to take it out of the journalistic field and make it appear more as an ad, so that it was even more shocking in its context and would hopefully be more arresting.
Tibor believed in the photograph as the universal communicator, for AIDS and for many subjects of significance.
digitaljournalist.org /issue0106/voices_kalman.htm   (585 words)

  
 The Willful Outsider | Metropolis Magazine | August/September 1999
Tibor was not merely successful and uncompromising: He was a moralist.
Tibor adamantly refused to be a vendor and addressed the world as sovereign of a small but free-spirited nation called, for a time, MandCo.
But Tibor was an innovator whose work--no matter how meticulously crafted or aesthetically pleasing or cool or funky--was informed by the desire to change the world that most student activists shed at graduation.
www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0899/au99the2.htm   (1346 words)

  
 Kurt Andersen ~ The New Yorker ~ Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tibor Kalman, who perfectly embodied that brave, ferocious, bighearted amateur spirit, died last week of cancer.
Tibor, whom everyone called Tibor (partly, I think, because it’s a fun word to say—his son’s middle name, after all, is Onomatopoeia), was not yet fifty.
The Tibor Kalman aesthetic DNA lives and flourishes all over the place, in the work of his former protégés and of people he influenced but never met.
kurtandersen.com /journalism/nyker/nyker051799tibor.html   (608 words)

  
 New Museum: Tiborocity, Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman
Tiborocity: Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman, 1979­1999 was organized by Tibor Kalman, in collaboration with Aaron Betsky, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of architecture, design and digital projects.
Although Kalman died on May 2, 1999 after a long illness, the exhibition proceeded as a tribute to his life and career.
Over the past twenty years Tibor Kalman and the work of MandCo have rejected the slick, superficial application of design that was so widespread in the 1980s for a sort of "undesign" that embraced the vernacular.
www.newmuseum.org /more_exh_t_kalman.php   (676 words)

  
 Tiborocity: Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman, 1979-1999
Kalman was a contrarian, often playing devil's advocate.
Kalman says at one point, "We're here to inject art into commerce," but his major focus was what he called vernacularism, "a tool to unhinge the dominance of cold corporate moderism and cool professionalism." Most of the results seem to this viewer to be visual pablum.
That Kalman was effective at what he did, and enormously influential in his field, is undeniable.
www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Kalman.htm   (436 words)

  
 >☞ Buy cheapest (un) Fashion (un) Fashion in » Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TIBOR KALMAN (1949-1999), united of the world's superior explicit designers and a ethnic activist, supported the new recent York design hard M&Co, famous for its use of graphics for social commentary as asymptomatic as for innovation in design.
Kalman (it can be assume that the dynamical force down the book is Maira who is a same talented artist in her personal right).
The twist is that, like a lot of what Kalman did for Colors, the pictures may be viewed not only on their own, but next to and in conjuction with the photos that are adjacent to it.
www.myfinanceaid.com /un-fashion,0810945002_i.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Typotheque: Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist by Andrew Blauvelt
This ‘lack’ on the part of Kalman fueled many professional fires, contributing on the one hand to his self-proclaimed ‘outsider’ status within the profession, and on the other, defining his aesthetics of the ordinary, the realm of what he liked to call ‘undesign.’ This makes for a very postmodern circumstance.
For Kalman this publication represents not only a summary of accumulated strategies and styles, but also the culmination of the kind of work he sought so eagerly to pursue as a content provider.
Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist offers numerous insights into the various transformations of this designer from a variety of commentators: critics, colleagues, employees, friends, and clients.
www.typotheque.com /articles/tibor_kalman.html   (1641 words)

  
 Greenwich Village Gazette: Entertainment: Art: Renata Bomtempo
At that time I wasn't familiar with the name Tibor Kalman, and as I walked past those portraits and stared at those portraits I realized only now what Tibor's intention was.
Tibor uses graphic design to convey a message in his art.
If it were not for Tibor's imaginative use of graphic design in his art, graphic design would only be concentrated in aesthetics.
www.nycny.com /entertainment/arts   (690 words)

  
 DYSKE - Critique of Tibor Kalman and DK Holland
Tibor Kalman defended this type of advertising practice as a way of compromising, similar in vein to Robin Hood, but I argue that it undermines the very goal it is trying to achieve.
Kalman later realized the implications, and went on to wage a war against the cigarette industry.
Just as it was out of their control that they were lured by Kalman's original design of the cigarette box, it is also out of their control that they are convinced by Kalman's fashionable rhetoric.
www.dyske.com /?view_id=796   (2198 words)

  
 CREATIVE TIME
Creative Time and Maira Kalman, in conjunction with The New Museum, presented Tibor in Orbit, a public art project that posthumously honored her husband Tibor Kalman.
Tibor in Orbit appeared on 1 million Parmalat/Sunndydale non-fat milk cartons in supermarkets in the New York metropolitan area and on the NBC Astrovision by Panasonic video screen in Times Square.
Tibor Kalman initially worked with Creative Time on the Everybody installation in Times Square during the 42nd Street Art Project (1993).
www.creativetime.org /programs/archive/2000/Tibor/Tibor.htm   (202 words)

  
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Tibor Kalman is the founder of the legendary M&Co of New York and former senior editor of COLORS magazine.
Although Tibor died several years ago, his work has been very influential in both the design community and our culture at large.
Tibor openly rebelled against the professional design culture that had inadvertently become a slave of profit and corporations.
www.drawingonthepromises.com /blogs/blank/2005/01/tibor-design-from-your-soul.html   (456 words)

  
 un Fashion by Tibor Kalman, Maira Kalman
While he was alive Tibor Kalman spent his design career showing that one could find "high art" in the everyday world.
Kalman (it can be assume that the driving force behind the book is Maira who is a very talented artist in her own right).
For those of you who are Tibor fans...Maira has a very touching write up about her late husband and why he initiated this book.
www.book-summary-review.com /un-Fashion-0810945002.htm   (836 words)

  
 Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tibor Kalman - Tibor In Orbit - May, 23 2000.
This project fulfils Tibor's unrealized dream of creating an "un-advertising" campaign to question social and economic equality.
Tibor in Orbit is prestened in conjunction with the supermarket distribution of 1 million Parmalat milk cartons in the New York metropolitan area on which "Tiborisms" like "Tibor Says Everything is an Experiment" are printed.
www.creativetime.org /59/tibor.htm   (94 words)

  
 tibor: undesign - glimpses of tibor kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Reflections on the wisdom of Tibor Kalman, social responsibility, and a designer's role in the digital age.
Established in 1950, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery exhibits contemporary.
Tibor Machan Research Fellow Expertise: Political philosophy, business ethics PDF summary: Guide to Scholars 2003 T ibor R. Machan is a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus,.
www.newkidhomevideo.com /tibor.html   (254 words)

  
 The useful arts, seattle.: Tibor Kalman
Kalman once said, "My quandary was that designers have been taught to be liars.
I was not against anyone personally, I just had all these questions about what we were doing." Throughout his work, Kalman has successfully engaged his audience by exposing the formulae according to which sexual, violent, and multicultural images are used in design to sell products and promote social conformity.
tibor kalman was the god damned man, all that for somebody that i never even met you know.
anthony.ianniciello.net /blog/archives/000132.html   (263 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This is a great catalogue of all the work Tibor has done in his career.
I first heard of Tibor Kalman while browsing a copy of "Interview", just to learn that it was a tribute.
Kalman was a fascinating artist, but above all, he was down to earth.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1568982585   (925 words)

  
 Metropolis Insites: The Chairman Dances
Designed by Fehlbaum's old friend Tibor Kalman, the founding editor of Colors magazine, the chunky little picture book is a suitably unorthodox biography of the man whose parents started Vitra by manufacturing Eames chairs in their factory near Basel, Switzerland.
But Kalman has kept text to a minimum: short sentences of kindergarten words (chosen so that all of Europe could read them without translation) function like title cards in a silent film.
Kalman, who heads up his own New York graphic design firm, M and Co., calls his work uncommercial.
www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0598/ma98vitr.htm   (323 words)

  
 Tibor Kalman - TheBestLinks.com - Elizabeth II, Graphic design, May 2, New Wave music, ...
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He worked at a small New York City bookstore in the 1970s that eventually became Barnes and Noble, and became the supervisor of their in-house design department.
www.thebestlinks.com /Tibor_Kalman.html   (272 words)

  
 MoMAstore - Tibor Kalman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tibor Kalman founded the legendary, multidisciplinary design firm M&Co in 1979.
Following the release of a record album cover for the rock band Talking Heads, M&Co gained major attention for "pushing the envelope" on conventions of design and typography, and went on to become a major influence on emerging designers.
The Kalman's social concerns and reactions to contemporary attitudes resulted in products that are enjoyed internationally as they address contemporary issues, including time (5 o'clock really is the most important time for many of us) and garbage (crumpled paper can have a real nice look).
momastore.org /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&categoryId=10413   (139 words)

  
 eye | feature
Tibor Kalman was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949 and emigrated to US with his family in 1956.
Kalman was art director of Artforum from 1987-88 and creative director of Interview from 1989-91.
In September 1995 Kalman quit Colors and returned to New York to consider new directions.
www.eyemagazine.com /feature.php?id=30&fid=167   (647 words)

  
 Used Book Central Search / author: Kalman, Maira
Kalman, Maira and Ruth Peltason (eds); TIBOR KALMAN: 2002 Kalman, Maira and Ruth Peltason (editors).
Kalman- Maira: NEW Juvenile Kindergarten Putnam Pub Group BOOK-REINFORCED (S & L) From accordions to underwear- Pete the dog's impartial palate leads him to eat his way through the possessions of the entire family.
Kalman, Maira: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj Children's Viking New York 1992 First Edition Hardcover 0-670-84479-9 [book is nice except for a small, crescent-shaped bit of peeling damage to front cover; jacket has a bit of wrinkling, minor spotting].
www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,Kalman_Maira.html   (429 words)

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