Environment

Kalman was instrumental in designing the
planning guidelines for the redevelopment
of New York's 42nd Street.

"I laid out a vision for the street, that it should be democratic, urban, exciting, and diverse - financially, economically, racially, and in every other way - that this is New York and it ought to be a great street. ...

"[T]here was a year when nothing happened, when the project was up for review, specification, and budgeting. [W]e wanted to show something was going on [so] we came up with the idea of an art show, using the street as a canvas. ... M&Co. did the 'Everybody' billboard. It was painted yellow with the giant word symbolizing what 42nd Street is for. ... It stayed up for about a year."

Tibor Kalman

intro 1 2 | florent 1 2 3 4 | carbonell | typography 1 2 3 4 5 | talking heads 1 2 3
xmas 1 2 3 | products 1 2 3 | colors 1 2 3 | vitra | 42nd street | finale

A majority of the images and much of the information on this web site came from:

• Tibor Kalman: Design and Undesign (Cutting Edge), by Liz Farelly (1998)

Additional sources of information:

• Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, by Tibor Kalman (1998)
• Tiborocity: Design and Undesign, exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999)
• A variety of web sites

This is a demo site. It is being shown here as a portfolio piece. The sources for information and images are noted above.