Vitra
(Swiss furniture manufacturer)

"...[T]he images of the products smoothly interact with the other images. We would find a form within the product that matched one in the non-industrial image.

"There were three reasons for this. One, no language; two, developing countries are less familiar; and three, it's kind of embarrassing to do a catalog of very expensive office furniture with all the things that are going on in the world, all the problems.

"Workspirit is meant to remind you that there is a real world out there, that office furniture is not everything."

Tibor Kalman

Workspirit
Catalog, 1994

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.