Tibor Kalman

Kalman founded M&Co., the New York design agency, with two partners in 1979. Through the mid-1980s, M&Co. played both sides of the fence - the straight (banks) and the hip (music artists).

"It was almost like playing Robin Hood. We took money from the rich clients and spent it on the poor clients. The rich clients were banks, real estate, and such like, and the poor clients were rock bands, museums, and so on."

In the mid-1980s, the corporate world was changing as babyboomers grew up to run the banks. This new generation was more receptive to new ideas in design.

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.