death_date death_place birth_place nationality name field birth_date article_title birth_name
2 may 1999 puerto rico budapest , hungary american tibor kalman graphic design 1949 7 6 yes tibor kalman
 tibor kalman
tibor kalman

tibor kalman -lrb- july 6 , 1949 -- may 2 , 1999 -rrb- was an american graphic designer of hungarian origin , well known for his work as editor-in-chief of `` colors '' magazine .
kalman was born in budapest and became a u.s. resident in 1956 , after he and his family fled hungary to escape the soviet invasion , settling in poughkeepsie , new york .
he later attended nyu , dropping out after one year of journalism classes .
in the 1970s kalman worked at a small new york city bookstore that eventually became barnes & noble .
he later became the supervisor of their in-house design department .
in 1979 kalman , carol bokuniewicz , and liz trovato started the design firm m & co. , which did corporate work for such diverse clients as the limited corporation , the new wave group talking heads , and restaurant florent in new york city 's meatpacking district .
kalman also worked as creative director of `` interview '' magazine in the early 1990s .
kalman became founding editor-in-chief of the benetton-sponsored `` colors '' magazine in 1990 .
in 1993 , kalman closed m & co. and moved to rome , to work exclusively on the magazine .
billed as ' a magazine about the rest of the world ' , `` colors '' focused on multiculturalism and global awareness .
this perspective was communicated through bold graphic design , typography , and juxtaposition of photographs and doctored images , including a series in which highly recognizable figures such as the pope and queen elizabeth were depicted as racial minorities .
kalman remained the main creative force behind `` colors '' , until the onset of non-hodgkins lymphoma forced him to leave in 1995 , and return to new york .
in 1997 , kalman re-opened m&c o and continued to work until his death in 1999 in puerto rico , shortly before a retrospective of his graphic design work entitled `` tiborocity '' opened its u.s. tour of the san francisco museum of modern art .
a book about kalman and m&c o 's work , `` tibor kalman : perverse optimist '' , was published by princeton architectural press in 1999 .
today the influence of m&c o is still strong , both as a result of its work and that of the many designers , like stefan sagmeister , stephen doyle , alexander isley , scott stowell , and emily oberman , who worked there and went on to start their own design studios in new york city .
howard milton and jay smith who worked with kalman in 1979 went on to found smith & milton in london .
tibor kálmán was a member of alliance graphique internationale -lrb- agi -rrb- .
kalman was one of the 33 signers of the first things first 2000 manifesto .
from 1981 up until his death , kalman was married to the illustrator and author maira kalman .
