April 14, 2003
Tibor Kalman
1949 - 1999
Born: Budapest, Hungary
Worked: New York, NY, United States
Kalman once said, "My quandary was that designers have been taught to be liars. They have been taught to use their skills -- just like lawyers and accountants -- to distort information. I was not against anyone personally, I just had all these questions about what we were doing." Throughout his work, Kalman has successfully engaged his audience by exposing the formulae according to which sexual, violent, and multicultural images are used in design to sell products and promote social conformity.
Sometimes I damn my state school B.F.A for not teaching be about designers in history, such as in this case, and other times I am glad I don't know of them.
Comments
andrew:
thanks for posting that quote.
kalman will always be an inspiration.
questioning what you do for a living,
doesn't seem too bad,
now that i know he questioned too.
cheers
michele
Posted by: Michele Champagne | February 2, 2004 06:20 PM
I have become a fan of tibor from 3 yrs. I have done a research presentation on him, and i found him "amazing"...
I am engaged in working on some of the anit-ads, anti-brands project...
that i work it for my self. It let me know That do have my thinkings!
Pakistan
karachi.
Posted by: sharjeel ahmad | March 10, 2004 08:13 PM
tibor kalman was the god damned man, all that for somebody that i never even met you know. He represented what is good in design and a direction that should be payed a lot more attention to by a lot of us. People should check out the first things first manifesto to get some sort of idea of the ideology tibor and other designers were so passionate about. What better thing to do than to question our postition as designers...
Posted by: christopher | July 8, 2004 06:12 PM