Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan

Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan

by StevenHeller (Author), Deborah Hussey (Author)

Synopsis

Kevin T. O'Callaghan is a wizard who can find the monumental in anything and the potential genius in everyone, and Monumental is his manifesto, featuring hundreds of entertaining design objects made out of obsolete, useless, cast-off technology. O'Callaghan is a designer, comedian, entrepreneur and social critic. Since 1985, he has taught a now-legendary 3-D design class at New York's School of Visual Arts, where students solder, rivet, and weld the flotsam of mass-produced consumer culture into new, different and, most importantly, functional objects: TV sets, gas masks, pushcarts, mini-golf courses, full-size beds, cars and even a carousel. After O'Callaghan's students have funded and fabricated their works, the course culminates with a single themed exhibition that is invariably a tour-de-force of design ideas. His most celebrated exhibition, Yugo Next,A toured the United States, mesmerizing the media wherever it went. In this project, students transformed so-called uselessA Yugo automobiles into a piano, a barbecue, a shower, a confessional, an accordion, a gigantic telephone and a working toilet stall, among other things. O'Callaghan's Monumental is a celebration of imagination, ingenuity, recycling and individualism.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Published: 01 Oct 2010

ISBN 10: 0810989530
ISBN 13: 9780810989535

Author Bio
Kevin O'Callaghan graduated from SVA in 1985, and began teaching his MFA 3-D design course shortly thereafter. A jack-of-all design trades, he has constructed film sets for Rodney Dangerfield and windows for Hammacher Schlemmer, and currently designs sets and props for the MTV Movie Awards. He is the designer of the largest rococo frame in the world (which hangs in Times Square) Steven Heller is America's leading historian and critic of graphic design. He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of more than 100 books on design and popular culture, including Abrams' Illustration. His career is closely entertwined with two great New York institutions, The New York Times (as an art director) and the School of Visual Arts (as program director and teacher).