Designer Quote 2. Chloe

Tibor Kalman was an influential american designer of a hungarian origin. He was well known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine.
He was born in 1949 and died in 1999. In 1979 kalman started the design firm “M&Co”
Tibor Kalman founded editor-in-chief of the Colors magazine in 1990. in 1993 he moved to Rome to work exclusively on the magazine that was billed as ‘a magazine about the rest of the world’
Princeton Architectural press published a book about Tibor Kalman and M&Co’s work in 1999.
M&Co (named after his wife and co-creator, Maira) is still running strong today.
Tibor saw himself as a social activist. He saw graphic design as a means of achieving two ends: good design and social responsibility.
Tibor devoted M&Co’s seasonal self-promotional gifts to help bring awareness to the support for the homeless. One Christmas he sent more than 300 clients a small cardboard box filled with the typical contents of a homeless shelter meal and offered to match any donations that the recipients made to an agency for the homeless.
When Tibor sold a design to a client he did not hype a particular typeface or colour, but rather how the end result would simultaneously advance both culture and client.

“I see this as a business that affects peoples lives and affects peoples brains”





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Kalman

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-tiborkalman

http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/05/19/kalman/

http://www.typotheque.com/articles/tibor_kalman_perverse_optimist

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=30&fid=167