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COLOURS
Maria Kalman ed.
Thames & Hudson, 2002
Softcover
263 illustrations, 215 in colour.
ISBN: 0500283680
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Tibor Kalman's six years of editing the international magazine Colors allowed him to express in one place all of the diverse ideas about politics and design that he had formed in the course of his life - especially the necessity 'to change the way things are'. Tired of using design to express other people's ideas, he seized on the opportunity to edit and art-direct the Benetton-sponsored magazine as a chance to 'do it all' - conceptualize, write and design. He brought his restless curiosity and subversive wit to thirteen issues of Colors, developing a highly visual language to explore the world's problems - racism, pollution, AIDS - and cultural preoccupations - sports, shopping, travel. In his own biting and irreverent way, he helped to launch a new perspective on globalism ('think global, act local'), invented a form of journalism that shunned the ubiquitous celebrities who had infested the media of the decade, and re-thought the general-interest magazine in the most radical way since Life was first published in 1936.
This book captures the intensity and freshness of his remarkable achievement, presenting highlights from his work on Colors, and revealing his working methods in sketches and notes.
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