Kenneth Fitzgerald

Kenneth FitzGerald an educator, designer, artist, curator, and writer living in Chesapeake Virginia USA. He’s author of two book collections of essays, Process Music: songs, stories, and studies of graphic culture (Onomatopee Projects, 2022), and Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) and had texts appear in Emigre, Print, Eye, Modes of Criticism, Étapes, and Idea magazines; the books The Graphic Design Reader, Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer, Total Armageddon: A Slanted Reader on Design, Graphic Design and Reading, Thought Experiments in Graphic Design Education, and The Education of a Graphic Designer volume 2; plus the online journals Design Observer, Voice: AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, and Speak Up. He wrote the forward for Stefan Sagmeister’s ggg Books monograph, and the official bio for the British music group Cornershop. He produced The News of the Whirled, my novel in the form of 4-issue limited-edition magazine, for which he was principle writer, editor, designer, and imagist. NOTW 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, his work is included in public and private collections primarily in New England and New York, with a number of artist books in the Franklin Furnace/Museum of Modern Art/Artists Books collection.