Böcker av Kenneth Fitzgerald

A wide-ranging and incisive look at the various issues of volume in designA revised and expanded edition of the original 2010 book by Kenneth FitzGerald, Volumes: Design Reviewed Remixed Revealed, explores the dynamics of volume in graphic design, from vernacular expressions to professional practice, featured in critical essays, reviews, speculations, polemics, incitements and fictions. The diverse topics of the writings include the roles of class in design, progressive political speech as "mother" of graphic design, design as entertainment, typography as spur, the branding of the Beatles' Apple Records, pornography, album cover art, imaginary creative identities and more. Volumes also includes an introductory essay by the cofounder of Emigre Inc., Rudy VanderLans.Kenneth FitzGerald (born 1960) is an educator, designer, curator and artist. He is currently Professor of Design at Old Dominion University.

Exploring how design educators deploy the idea of the "radical"This book argues that, over the past 15 years, there has been a consistent deterioration of democracy in tandem with the establishment of the marketization and monetization of design education. Navigating difficult external political contexts in the middle of internal power struggles, college design courses seem to be incapable of challenging political, social, cultural and environmental phenomena with the urgency that all of these demand. Swallowed by an ever-rolling snowball of neoliberal educational models, small gestures do not produce the kind of radical change that design education and our catastrophic climate crisis needs for our survival. The fourth issue of Onomatopee's annual design criticism journal investigates the use of the word "radical" in design discourse and practice, exploring the challenges design universities face in responding with urgency to political, social, cultural and environmental struggles.This issue features essays by Danah Abdulla, Anne-Marie Willis, Tanveer Ahmed, Kenneth Fitzgerald, Anja Groten, Hannah Ellis and the research-led platform Depatriarchise Design.