Typography

With no formal design training, Kalman learned by doing. He had an "anti-design" approach.

Kalman was a critic of "professional" design. His aesthetic was a rejection of formal, proper ideas of design - "non-design".

He broke down barriers between the different design media and disciplines. Other designers began to feel free to venture out of their specializations and try other design mediums.

Kalman used a variety of disruptive
devices to make reading this catalog
a chaotic act.

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.