Colors
Issues 1-13 The Tibor Kalman Years
Edited by Maria Kalman
Ruth Peltason
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| ‘A valuable record of an extraordinary era and a unique man, edited with tremendous and indisputable care by the person who knew him better than all of us’ | | – Design Week |
| ‘Powerful and fresh’ | | – Creative Review |
'I felt that around the world there were young people who were progressive, and closer in spirit to each other than to their parents or cultures. This is the audience I wanted to reach with COLORS. It had to be about an incredibly broad range of subjects that were of interest to us all, breakfast, religion, sports and so on. That is why we cut down six thousand trees to print this magazine' (Tibor Kalman)
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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