Word: tibor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Painter Steven Mueller has had his work featured at the Annina Nosei Gallery; the Tibor De Nagy Gallery; and Mary Boone galleries. His numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a fellowship from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation...
...DIED. TIBOR KALMAN, 49, Budapest-born guru of progressive graphic design; of non-Hodgkins lymphoma; near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through his firm M&Co. and his role as editor in chief of Benetton's socio-political house magazine Colors, Kalman promoted social activism as much as innovative, anti-Establishment design techniques. (See Eulogy...
...Tibor Kalman had no ambitions to be a graphic designer, but he became one of the best and most influential practitioners of that strange profession. He inspired many, myself included, and infuriated the rest. He was all over the place--he steered Interview and Colors magazines in radical new directions; he brought artists into Times Square redevelopment projects; he created books, watches, furniture, posters, signs and menus. I worked with him on a film, a video clip and a number of record and CD covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor...
...vast promotion campaign has already started. The idea, says impresario Tibor Rudas, a specialist in mammoth outdoor attractions, is to reach beyond opera buffs to people "who wouldn't know whether Aida is a spaghetti or a swear word." Commercials that ran during soccer matches on cable TV's ESPN started the hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize...
...doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly...