Overview

  • Author of Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, self-published The News of the Whirled, a novel in the form of a magazine, artist books in the Franklin Furnace/Museum of Modern Art/Artists Books collection.

    • Selected Publications

    Articles In Academic Journals

    Year Title
    2017 Learning by numbers: eleven lessons taught only in design school.  Design Observer.
    2017 Singing the surface.  Man ifesto featur e—design and text.
    2016 Laura Rossi Garcia: dialectic designer.  AIGA Design Educators Community journal.
    2016 Turn over.  AIGA Design Educators Community journal.
    2015 The team player.  AIGA Design Educators Community journal.
    2015 Thinking About Teaching.  AIGA Design Educators Community journal.
    2014 The great third grade juice pouch riot.  AIGA Design Educators Community journal.
    2014 Yourselves: declaring ourselves.  Design Observer.
    2011 I Believe in Design.  Premsela, Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion.
    2009 Design's Just Dessert.  Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.
    2007 The resistance.  Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.
    2007 Visual culture reader.  IDEA.
    2006 I come to bury graphic design, not to praise it.  IDEA.
    2006 Seeing and reading.  IDEA.
    2005 Martin Venezky's beautiful melancholy.  Design Observer.
    2005 untitled article.  Emigre.
    2004 Buzz kill.  Emigre.
    2004 File under nowhere.  Emigre catalog, "Various types".
    2004 I come to bury graphic design not to praise it.  Emigre.
    2003 Quietude.  Emigre.
    2002 What culture wants.  Emigre.
    2002 letter to the editor.  Eye.
    2000 The last wave.  Emigre.
    1998 Fanfare for the common hack.  Eye.
    1998 Skilling saws and absorbent catalogs.  Emigre.
    1998 letter to the editor.  Critique.
    1997 On Creem magazine: 1970-1976.  Emigre.
    1996 letter to the editor.  Emigre.

    Books

    Year Title
    2010 Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture.  Ed. 1.  New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.

    Chapters

    Year Title
    2015 Fuck All.  Modes of Criticism 1 Critical Uncritical Post-critical. London: Modes of criticism.
    2014 Chaos theories and uncertainty principles.  Thought experiments in graphic design education. Books from the future.
    2013 12 views of 120 posters.  Graphic advocacy: International posters for the digital age 2001-2012. Massachusetts College of Art Foundation.
    2009 Skilling Saws and Absorbent Catalogs; The Last Wave; What Culture Wants.  Emigre No. 70 the Look Back Issue: Selections from Emigre Magazine 1-69. Celebrating 25 Years of Graphic Design. San Francisco, CA: Gingko Press.

    Education And Training

  • M.F.A. in Design, Massachusetts College Of Art 1996
  • B.F.A. in Ceramics, Massachusetts College Of Art 1983

    • Full Name

  • Kenneth FitzGerald