News
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- 14.Jan.12
- National Design Award Nomination
I’ve been nominated for a 2012 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the category of “Design Mind.” “First launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual National Design Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, [...]
Writing
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- 14.Jan.12
- All Music to All (Good) People: Cornershop Masters Time and Space
Cornershop wants to be all things to all people. More precisely—all music to all people. The band is engaged in an ongoing project of musical inclusion and exploration, one that challenges listeners and art form itself.
Its career is defined by defiantly unconventional moves. Cornershop quietly—in that they receive nowhere the amount of press and radio [...]
Published
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- 04.Nov.09
- Essays and more 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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- 09.Nov.11
- (Untitled) book
As part of my application for promotion to full professor at ODU, to accompany copies of Volume, I made a limited-edition book of additional writings for internal and external reviewers. The writings are a selection of articles, essays, and miscellany that were either written after receiving tenure and not included in Volume, or written after [...]
Ephemera
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- 15.May.11
- More from Mark
Thanks to Mark Andresen for the typographic illustrative styling of my name in his excellent Not Caslon face.
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 by Princeton Architectural Press 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 Associate Professor of Art at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
