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Tibor Kalman (1949 – 1999)

Tibor Kalman (1949 – 1999), founder of M&Co. began his legendary relationship with time in 1983. Bodoni watch features the classic Bodoni typeface designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740 - 1813) in the late 18^th- early 19^th century, Italy. Bodoni's typeface is characterized by easily recognizable Romantic typeface, vertical stress, slight serif bracketing, a vertical tail of Q, and a small upper bowl of g to name a few. Clearly a classic of its day, and even today, the Bodini has clean lines that carefully teeter from light to dark and back. Bodoni is timeless.
 In the spirit of the motto imprinted on the backside of the watches – “Waste Not a Moment”-reflect witty graphics merging with serious engineering in this hand-crafted timepiece.
Each watch is made of black electroplated aluminum ensuring a finish that stays looking new and comes with a genuine topstitched black leather band lined with a taupe glove leather finish and a matching black buckle.

Tibor Kalman founded the legendary, multidisciplinary design firm M&Co in 1979. In collaboration with his wife Maira, the conceptually progressive firm initially created graphics, magazines and film titles, and books. Following the release of a record album cover for the rock band Talking Heads, M&Co gained major attention for “pushing the envelope” on conventions of design and typography, and went on to become a major influence on emerging designers.

M&Co products address contemporary attitudes, challenging the conventions of design and typography. The 10-One-4 watch is the very first watch to be selected for the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

White World - Patricia Barber

I arrive in the jungle
in my new khaki clothes
make a splash in a pontoon plane
bought and paid for by those

who demand a tally
of the dark horse, the bad seed
poking and prodding progenitors
of respiratory disease are we

Whiteworld

I have institutions in the West
to make institutions in the East
I historically revise
with Deconstructionist ease

to name is to own
to market is to steal
I’m a gangster in a Hummer
& this culture will yield to me

Whiteworld

my policy is straight
my publisher primed
the natives will not
resist this time

cause I’ve got celebrity
I translate, I teach
I give my heart, my soul,
my brains, my body, and my
batteries

Whiteworld

bridge (Sophocles)
I came on my journey
to a juncture of three roads
two men in a chariot
made it impossible to go

I struck the driver
for pushing me aside
the old man struck me back
so that I
had to kill them all

Whiteworld

I can change water into wine
solve the riddle for the Sphinx
I like the perfectly primitive
cause they desperately need

my sovereignty
over Third World Thebes
I’m a First World Oedipus
and Mother Earth is
down on her knees

M.Ward - Blakes View

 

"Death is just a door"
Blake said it first
It's just another room we enter
It's the threshold that hurts

Birth is just a chorus
And Death is just a Verse
In the great song of spring
That the mockingbrids sing

We come and we go
A-weeping and a-wailing
Our heads in the hands of the nurse
Put your head on my shoulder, baby
Tell me where it hurts
You say you lost your one and only
Could it get any worse?

I say, "death is just a door
You'll be Reunited on the other side"
It's alright
"Death is just a door
You'll be reunited bye and bye"       

Hangul Typography

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