A review of the late Kalman’s monograph in context, with a brief background of Tibor’s influential design work and approach to its role in the consumer culture of the 80s and 90s.

Despite the piece’s off-colour title, an optimism exists in this reaction to what the author sees as the hermetic design field’s reverence of the late Tibor Kalman.

A brief examination of the politics, culture and designer’s role in the uses, cultural placement and proliferation of stock photography.

A poetically theoretical take on the fluid state of type, design and the vernacular in digital form as they relate to language and contemporary culture.

Partner in the New York office of Pentagram, and former president of AIGA (1998-2001) Writes frequently about design and is a contributing editor to I...