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 3D 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.