Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan

Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan by Hussey, Deborah. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780810989535.

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.