Born in Hungary in 1949, Tibor Kalman grew up in the United States and became a well known graphic designer. He co-founded design firm M & Co., which, though closed in 1992, has works that can still be seen in both the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, including replicas of the clock he made for the roof of the Red Square building. He was also the founding editor-in-chief of Colors magazine, sponsored by Benetton. Their most famous issue was the race issue, which showed recognizable people, such as Queen Elizabeth and the Pope, as racial minorities. Kalman was married to Maira Kalman, who helped run M & Co. and is a journalist, illustrator and artist known for her covers on The New Yorker. They were married until Tibor’s untimely death due to non-Hodgkins lymphoma at the young age of 49.
