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		<title>Étapes numéro deux cent</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/03/etapes-numero-deux-cent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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I am one of the 200 &#8220;voix pour le design graphique&#8221; included in the 200th issue of the French design magazine étapes. The special issue presents the comments of designers, collectors, curators, festival organizers, teachers, and critics on aspects of the state of contemporary graphic design. I was asked to respond to a brief questionnaire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marian Bantjes&#8217; 2012 valentine</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/03/marian-bantjes-2012-valentine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Marian Bantjes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[post cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[valentines]]></category>

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For her valentines this year, Marian Bantjes printed her original vector artwork over used vintage postcards. You can read and see more at her website. Thanks as always to Marian for the gift!

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		<title>I Believe in Design (More)</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/02/i-believe-in-design-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Design Criticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Observer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[faith design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[graphic design criticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Premsela]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Volume]]></category>

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An expanded version of my essay &#8220;I Believe in Design&#8221; was published in Volume #29: The Urban Conspiracy. The article is included in a special insert to the magazine produced by the Trust Design project of Premsela, Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion. Trust Design &#8220;explores the relationship between trust and design through various publishing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Music to All (Good) People: Cornershop Masters Time and Space</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/01/all-music-to-all-good-people-cornershop-masters-time-and-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ample Play]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ben Ayres]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brimful of Asha]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bubbley Kaur]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cornershop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Luaka Bop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tjinder Singh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[When I was born for the 7th time]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Design Award Nomination</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/01/national-design-award-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Hewitt national Design Museum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Design Awards]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve been nominated for a 2012 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the category of &#8220;Design Mind.&#8221; &#8220;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Brand Bible Blogumentary</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2012/01/on-brand-bible-blogumentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Brand Bible Blogumentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Millman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RockPaperInk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sascha Donn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SVA]]></category>

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My visit last February to the Master of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York was documented at the RockPaperInk website in the &#8220;Brand Bible Blogumentary&#8221; post &#8220;Advice from Kenneth FitzGerald.&#8221; Thanks to program chair Debbie Millman for the invitation and post, and to her welcoming and inspiring students!
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		<title>U &#038; M-B</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2011/11/u-m-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Design Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Criticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Experimental Jetset]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eye magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[graphic design criticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[grid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Josef Muller-Brockmann]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kerry William Purcell]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Modernism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nicholson Baker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Rand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swiss International Style]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U &amp; I]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wolfgang Weingart]]></category>

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Nothing is perfect; perfect is nothing.
In his last year, Josef Müller-Brockmann gave a lecture in Mexico on his work. The renowned Swiss designer brought down the house with his final slide—which was blank. “This is my best piece of work,” intoned Müller-Brockmann. According to biographer Kerry William Purcell in his 2008 monograph, Josef Müller-Brockmann (Phaidon), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Untitled) book</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2011/11/untitled-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blurb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hexahexaflexagons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[professing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-publishing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[untitled]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Volume]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World on Yr Cornershop</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2011/07/the-world-on-yr-cornershop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cornershop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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Imagine walking the streets during a bazaar, street fair, or some other festive gathering where celebration mixes with people’s everyday activities: strolling, shopping, errands. Perhaps you’re in or near an urban park during a festival or parade.
Music animates the air: blaring from boom boxes, spilling out of open doorways, buzzing from loudly tuned iPods, spouting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More from Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2011/05/more-from-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ephemeralstates.com/2011/05/more-from-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 02:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth FitzGerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Andresen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Not Caslon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[typography]]></category>

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Thanks to Mark Andresen for the typographic illustrative styling of my name in his excellent Not Caslon face.
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