News
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- 04.Aug.10
- Volume Extended Index
Space considerations prevented a comprehensive index to be published in Volume. However, as an extra to the book, you can download a PDF of the book’s full index here. The extended index was also designed by Jiwon Lee (thanks!) in the same layout as the bookâso just print it out, trim it down, and [...]
Writing
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- 24.Jul.10
- The Booty Pop Variations
One of the below-the-fold front page stories of the July 22 Wall Street Journal told the tale of the increasing popularity of the Booty Pop. For some reason, this information was passed along to my two kids before departing on a drive from Brooklyn to Massachusetts. Along the way, the game became creating rhyming variations [...]
Published
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- 04.Nov.09
- 3 Essays in Emigre No. 70
Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue: Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design, the 512-page compendium of the storied magazine has been published by Gingko Press. It includes full reproductions of three of my essays, a handful of quotes on the end papers, and my original letter to the editor in 1996 in a small [...]
Projects
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- 17.Jul.10
- Six Secrets of the Hexahexaflexagon
To celebrate the release of my major label book Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, I have produced a new hand-made letter-pressed 12-page artist book, Six Secrets of the Hexahexaflexagon. The chapbook is meant as a “bonus single” to Volume, and features alternate origin stories for the hexahexaflexagon, emblem of Ephemeral States. [...]
Ephemera
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- 15.Aug.10
- $100,000 (briefly)
Expired Zimbabwean cash, collected from a gutter by Andrew Breitenberg.
About
Ephemeral States is the site of Kenneth FitzGerald, artist, educator, and writer. As a writer, I'm the author of Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, published in 2010. I produced The News of the Whirled, a novel in the form of 4-issue limited-edition magazine that received awards for excellence from the American Center for Design and AIGA, and is in the collection of Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota. As an artist, my work is included in public and private collections primarily in New England and New York, with numerous artist books in the Franklin Furnace/Museum of Modern Art/Artists Books collection. I received my MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and am currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
