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	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. In the 1970s, he worked at a small bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. He soon supervised their in-house design department, a position he held for eleven years. In 1979 Kalman established the multidisciplinary design firm M&Co, which appealed to a generation of clients who were receptive to popular culture. His clients ranged from corporations such as The Limited and Chiat/Day advertising to rock bands, including Talking Heads. M&Co's work was characterized by an affinity for vernacular advertising and signage, and an affection for humor, found image and brash typography. The influence of his experiments in typography and images can be seen everywhere, from music videos to the design of magazines such as Wired and Ray Gun. In 1990 Kalman became the founding editor-in-chief of Colors, a Benetton-sponsored magazine. Published as "a magazine about the rest of the world," more than 500,000 copies of the magazine were distributed globally. Kalman returned to New York in 1995 and re-established M&Co 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. Kalman died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on May 2, 1998. His legacy is caught in his retrospective book "Perverse Optimist", published around the time of his death. The "bad boy" of design stated, "Rules are good. Break them.", and "Isn't that what most design is about -- making something seem different from what it truly is?" © Robins Design. All rights reserved.

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	Perverse Optimist by peter hall	(un) Fashion by tibor kalman and maira kalman	Chairman: Rolf Fehlbaum by tibor kalman	Tibor Kalman: Design and Undesign (Cutting Edge) by liz farrelly

	T. Bor: Tiborocity Exhibition by maira kalman		DVD: Interview with Tibor Kalman DVD	Crumpled Paperweight designed by tibor kalman

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