导语

  

    This book has been more than fifty years in the making. It begins with the enduring love that I received from my mother Mary, who taught me not to be afraid to stand out in the crowd. An understanding of how things work and thinking "big" came from my father Timothy. I love you both. In the early years of my craft, my stepfather Richard bestowed upon me his work ethic and his support of my art, which were vital to my later practice. Love you. I am thankful to my sister Patricia Filasky for her strength and perseverance, and to my brother Donald O'Callaghan, who taught me about leadership and tolerance. I love you both.

内容提要

  

    Kevin O'Callaghan is a design wizard and Monumental is his manifesto, featuring hundreds of beautiful and useful design objects made out of obsolete, useless, cast-off technology. Since 1985, O'Callaghan 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. For “Yugo Next,” an exhibition that toured the United States—and mesmerized the media wherever it went—students transformed so-called “useless” Yugo automobiles into a piano, a barbecue, a shower, a confessional, an accordion, a gigantic telephone, and a toaster that actually popped, among other things. O'Callaghan is a philosopher, comedian, entrepreneur, and social critic who shows how design can make the world a better place.

    Steven Heller is a historian and critic of graphic design. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 130 books on design and popular culture, including Abrams's Graphic Style and Illustration. His career is intertwined 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).

THE REAL O'C
INTRODUCTION
YUGO NEXT
THE NEXT BEST...DING!
NBC EARTH DAY FRAME
HORSEPOWER
MOONLIGHTING:
THE MTV MOONMAN TAKES
ON NEW ROLES
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS
SIDESHOW
TROPHIES
DISARM
URBAN PEDDLERS
MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER?
BEDTIME RITUALS
OFF-ROADING:
THE REINVENTION OF THE
AMERICAN GAS-GUZZLER
A TWISTED CHRISTMAS:
ON BROADWAY
BED, BATH, AND BOMB SHELTER
ECHO PHONES
DISCONNECTED
EXHIBITION DESIGN:
RETROSPECTIVES
TVs FOR MOVIE PEOPLE
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY:
A CAROUSEL
INDEX