“I was already involved with Gran Fury when I went to work at M&Co. in 1987. At that time, they were working on some latter-day Talking Heads stuff, Florent ads, and so on. There was this “language of the vernacular” thing going on at M&Co. Suddenly, Tibor [Kalman] started this rhetoric about design being political. I feel, perhaps possessively, that this rhetoric was largely appropriated from Gran Fury.
At one point after Don [Moffett] and I had founded Bureau, Michael Bierut called me to interview me for an article he was writing. He wanted to find out if Gran Fury had evolved out of M&Co. I was personally outraged that this perception was out there, and I declined to participate in the article.”
— Marlene McCarty