E Fitz Smith Design

Art is a crime... a New York Daily News Justice illo from August 2011

2011-09-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

Gotta have my fun!

2011-07-23T20:53:00.000-07:00

Who's gonna be the next one to raise your transport fares?

Nobody's safe from the coming rate hikes...

NYDN.com

Mexico to S.I. - Map I did for print / NYDN.com

2011-07-05T12:34:00.000-07:00

Mexico to S.I. - Map I did for print / NYDN.com

Wake up and smell the Fifty... Happy B-Day Cuz!!!

2011-06-13T02:13:00.001-07:00

New York pols...

2011-06-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

NYDN Queens African American Stars map

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Might as well have a laff...

2011-06-05T21:47:00.000-07:00

Arnie, we hardly knew ye...

2011-06-05T15:34:00.001-07:00

Blog banner for COPE/HOPE

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Some girls...

2011-03-12T21:45:00.000-08:00

It's fun to have a not-so-swanky gal on the front page now & then...

header... footer... nav... what?... HTML: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim from OReilly.com Publications

2011-01-21T21:14:00.000-08:00

HTML: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim from OReilly.com Publications

If only a few words were the key to opening up immediate production in HTML5. “HTML5: Up and Running” is one of few books that comes close to explaining that path in the least amount of words.

Some people don’t care about HTML, no less HTML5. Some people are wearing the new badge of HTML5 code right out on their sleeves. Like the W3C.

They are so excited - they commissioned a slick, sexy HTML5 logo website while waiting for the final HTML5 tablets to come down from the mount… on the way to us... some eon from now.

The ease of this new markup is exemplified in the comfort that the binders of books, as well as the web authorities, feel in allowing us all to dip our hands in while the batter is still being stirred on HTML5.

‘HTML5: Up and Running’ from O’Reilly.com is not afraid to dish it out in economical slices. In the speedy evolution of technical web publications, ‘Up and Running’ is a mid-step to larger, more verbose books that are just hitting the market. Released early enough to be modest in page quantity but dense enough to explain all the essential aspects, a cheeky dash of humor is included inside for free.

Myself, as a communications designer, I am very happy with the way charts and diagrams are designed consistently through the book. I love the horizontal comparison charts that measure browser compatibility. The design helps to distinguish this information from the stacks of code throughout the text. As an illustrator, I’m dying to get HTML5 Canvas carved into my brain cells. This is a good introduction to forming images via markup but I need more visuals to really know how that happens outside of the flattened page. I’m reading the book in bound and PDF formats. Great advantages to the copious hyperlinks in the PDF format. Bound version is small and easy to slip into the bag for educating yourself on the fly.

efitzsmith.com

A map I did for the NYDN Boros section this Summer

2011-01-17T20:41:00.000-08:00

Click on Nutmega & watch him dance!

2010-12-16T20:44:00.000-08:00

Ink drawings and digital landscapes at kHyal & Karl's GIF/t shindig

2010-12-11T10:54:00.000-08:00

Portrait is a Prayer for Tasha - 1966-2010

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Natasha Staggers - Daily Newser

King-maker hits jackpot

2010-11-17T13:21:00.000-08:00

King-maker hits jackpot
'Mentor' D'Mato may get boost from Pete's new post

(Graphic for Sunday NYDN article)

Vera Stretz shoots Fritz Gebhardt in 1935.

2010-11-17T13:11:00.000-08:00

Sunday NY Daily News Justice Story -
Vera Stretz shoots Fritz Gebhardt in 1935.

'Ferry At Night' in the BACC show Urban Essence at the Bridgeport Arcade.

2010-11-04T20:35:00.000-07:00

E Fitz Smith, "Ferry at Night" archival digital print - 9x11 inch image area - Passengers on the ride into Bridgeport.

Urban Essence review Lee Steele at the Connecticut Post:

http://www.leesteele.com/2010/10/urban/

Downtown’s mid-1800s Arcade, which was recently given a serious renovation and finally has some more tenants, was given a serious boost this week when the Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council started mounted its Urban Essence exhibit. The show opens with a reception 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10.

Curated by Janine Brown and Thomas Mezzanotte, FAC’s artist of the year, the BACC office space is filled with contemporary photos of today’s Bridgeport. The photos are beautiful without being sentimental, celebrating the city’s toughness and grit and not flinching from despair and detachment.

Urban Essence - Nov 2, 2010 - Jan 13, 2011

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Urban Essence - Opening reception: Nov 10

Photos from my Commuted Sentence series in the Urban Essence show

Wednesday, Nov 10 5:00p
The Arcade Gallery @ BACC, Bridgeport
Nov 2, 2010 - Jan 13, 2011 Opening reception: Nov 10 5-7pm Sponsored by the Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council & People's United Bank, Urban Essence is an exhibition of 11 area photographers

Colorful & fierce... NYDN loves a mob story

2010-10-25T16:34:00.000-07:00

Poor little doggies! NYDN fun...

2010-10-25T16:30:00.001-07:00

My latest front page effort - September 30th, 2010

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Ladies You Don't Know

2010-09-09T00:27:00.000-07:00

Ladies You Don't Know

Really, DO you know them?
I've only just been introduced...

E Fitz Smith©2009-2010 / e.fitz.smith@gmail.com

When I come home from work...

2010-09-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

... this is what I see as I come up the stairs from the train platform.

Part of my digital drawing series deepCT.com

Industrial views from around Connecticut.

'Menny and Mila' get a website - mennyandmila.com

2010-08-17T15:41:00.000-07:00

menny & mila
website for Fringe NYC musical comedy

So... Paul Schultz, an editor at the New York Daily News, asked me to create a logo to represent his fringenyc.com show 'Menny and Mila.'

Before I knew it, I was his webmaster... ha ha ha ha ha (maniacal laugh).

Well, I couldn't resist setting him up with a blog/website to promote his musical comedy playing during the Fringe Festival in New York City.

Check out the videos of the practice song & dance numbers and the cast and crew bios.

It's also a story quite close to home, being it involves the tabloid newspaper and web industry that I and Paul work in. It's like waking to a dream within a dream... or something like that.

See the play, read the reviews. Ask me to promote your well thought out and crafted specialty!

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH CONTINUES

2010-03-02T23:19:00.000-08:00

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH

CONTINUES

Gallery Show

Saturdays

March 6 / 13 / 20 / 27

12PM-4PM

51 Crescent Avenue Bridgeport CT

Connecticut artists views of the Industrial Landscapes of Bridgeport

http://deepCT.com

http://thegalleryatblackrock.com

2010-02-24T22:21:00.000-08:00

See my new website
deepCT.com
...some other Connecticut

A series of digital drawings of Connecticut Industrial sites.

Prints on view at Industrial Strength - see thegalleryatblackrock.com for more details.

Open Studios New Haven: transport3 photo show

2008-09-12T20:32:00.000-07:00

transport3
Part of Open Studios 2008

E Fitz Smith - solo show
Christ Presbyterian Church
135 Whitney Ave
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 777-6960

October 2-5, 2008

FlatDuo.com beginnings...

2008-09-06T08:58:00.000-07:00

Hope it's BEAN a good year - get it?

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Hey Ma! I made it to the Daily News...

2007-10-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

Take a look at NYDailyNews.com/entertainment

That's where I work!

Who could have been making it to the Shuttle train in Times Square before the doors close shut... ?
Maybe you, big guy? Coulda been.

This is the first in a series of pictures from 'Transported,' a photographic exhibit by E. Fitz Smith depicting transportation and commuting. 'Transported' will be at the Fairfield Arts Council gallery in Connecticut from October 26 - December 19th, 2007. For further information, go to fairfieldartscouncil.org or efitzsmith.com.

Pictured above are the new NYDN.com webpage view and the original page view when the exhibit first was on display in Fairfield CT.

E Fitz Smith / TRANSPORTED - Artist's statement

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HAPPY COMMUTING 2008 / holiday ornament

2007-09-14T23:18:00.000-07:00

Buy ornament at CafePress.com
$12.00 + shipping

You know you love a train ride!
This is the 125th St. MetroNorth rail station at night, in Manhattan.
I was just on my way home...

TRANSPORTED / Commuter’s Last Wish

2007-08-24T09:38:00.001-07:00

Commuter’s Last Wish
by E Fitz Smith

You talk wildly
and I listen,
captive of your
strong opinion.

Please tuck your knees
as I silently scream.
Your groovy boots
have a split in the seam.

When we rattle rails
over the last river,
torture soon to end,
relief delivered.

If there were terror...
in the tunnel...
before this last stop...
I would still be your patriot friend.

E Fitz Smith ©2007

TRANSPORTED / Photographic Exhibition

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On the way to somewhere else...

TRANSPORTED

Photographic exhibition on the commuter experience

E Fitz Smith &
David Lubarsky
Laura Einstein - curator

fairfieldartscouncil.org
efitzsmith.com
davidlubarsky.com

October 26th - December 19th, 2007

Reception - Friday, October 26th 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Brown bag lunch discussion - Thursday, December 6th 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Fairfield Arts Council Gallery
70 Sanford Street
(across from the New Haven bound MetroNorth train station)
Fairfield, Connecticut 06825

Gallery hours: M-F 10:00am - 4:00pm / Saturday 1:00pm - 4:00pm
fairfieldartscouncil.org

Mass Transit / Mass Production

E FITZ SMITH - Artist's Statement

Flickr.com slide show

Mass production has held a fascination for me. Though I consider myself a fine artist at my core, I am attracted to what commercial design can do.

In the past ten years, technology has made it easier to produce artworks through the computer and have them reproduced in an archival form, for both commercial and fine arts purposes. Gradually, digital art works have established their place in the gallery mainstream.

Being a commuter to New York, these electronic developments gave me the great opportunity to capture and reproduce my mass transit journey in the digital medium, with all it’s streamlined attributes. I carry a Cannon Powershot Pro1 camera in my bag. This particular model is out of production, but for my purposes, it offers a high picture resolution while being easy to carry in my bag. Raw glimpses of the mundane are captured as I experience uncharted territory - my personal commute. Walking, car driving, train riding, flying, biking - watching others travel.

The moments spent commuting are seemingly throw away, as if we are just passing through from one world at home to another world in the work place. The journey that most workers experience each day is not the story of their life. Yet we can spend so much of our life in transit.

Traces of those other worlds surface in the mannerisms of the people I share the ride with. The family ties. The determination. The boredom. The parties. The youth. The age. On the road at night, I see the folks in motion who make up the other half of the workforce, finishing or starting their day.

I work at a newspaper. Sometimes when I am driving home from an even later ending to my day, I see one of the newspaper’s trucks making it’s way up I-95 to points further north in the New England region, rushing to toss bales of tomorrow’s papers off to the supermarkets and news seller storefronts.

So it is a wonder and a fascination how all these elements, that are part of one day, are transported from person to person, from vehicle to vehicle, from live action to printed matter, with the help of electricity and gas. Day in and day out. It is a musty, modern miracle, worthy of documentation.

Born in Brooklyn, New York
Living in Fairfield, Connecticut

I dedicate my commuter photo series to my father, Thomas Fitzgerald, who has been a decades long commuter from Long Island to New York City. He made the 60 mile trek each way until his retirement as properties manager for the Williamsburg Saving Bank, now part of HSBC Bank USA. His offices were in the famous Williamsburg Clock Tower building in Brooklyn. He still commutes to Brooklyn to see his favorite dentist, Dr. Klemons.

Many thanks to my partner Graeme White, Visual Arts Digital Manager for Columbia School of the Arts, my digital guru, who can cause the gears of technology turn with amazing ease.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/efitz/sets/72157601469057840/show/

e.fitz.smith@gmail.com

efitzsmith.com

fairfieldartscouncil.org
Fairfield Arts Council
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
(203) 319-1419
info@fairfieldartscouncil.org

70 Sanford Street, Fairfield

Directions: From I-95 take exit 21. Go south on Mill Plain Road about ½ mile and turn left on Post Road, Route 1. At the light at the town green turn left onto Sanford Street. The Fairfield Arts Council office and gallery are on the right at the end of the block.

E FITZ SMITH / Exhibited works

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E FITZ SMITH
e.fitz.smith@gmail.com
efitzsmith.com

Born in Brooklyn, New York
Living in Fairfield, Connecticut

Studied Illustration and Design at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Continuing studies in the New York Metro area

Communications Designer
Product Designer

1992 - S.C. Design Arts Committee Member - ‘Good Design is Good Business’ South Carolina State Arts Commission
1992 - 1994 - S.C. Colleton County Arts Council contributor

1997 - Award of Merit - Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA - annual artist exhibition

1998 - Award of Excellence in Illustration - Addy Awards - Savannah, GA, Advertising Club (Illustrations for BFG Marketing, Hilton Head, SC)

Printmaking:
1994 - ‘All Souls Day’ solo show, Gibbs Art Museum extension, Charleston, SC
1995 - ‘Moxibustion’ solo show, Print Studio South (now Redux Contemporary Art Center), Charleston, SC
1999 - ‘Powderkeg’ solo show, Gallery Espresso, Savannah, GA

Photography:
‘Remember Love,’ memorial to L. Eric Smith
Polaroid photo series, solo show:
1999 - Metropole Gallery, Savannah, GA
2000 - Hospice Savannah Gallery, Savannah, GA

'Commuted Sentence'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/efitz/sets/72157601469057840/show/

Brush & ink:
1995 - 'Girltalk: An exhibition of women comic artists', Bridges & Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
1996 - 'Milk of Her Mind' drawing in judged show, City of Savannah invitational, Savannah, GA
2005 - 'Widow's Corset' drawing in judged show, Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ

Digital drawings:
‘Flirtility’, Alternative Space, New Haven, CT 2006
flirtility.com

I dedicate my commuter photo series to my father, Thomas Fitzgerald, who has been a decades long commuter from Long Island to New York City. He made the 60 mile trek each way until his retirement as properties manager for the Williamsburg Saving Bank, now part of HSBC Bank USA. His offices were in the famous Williamsburg Clock Tower building in Brooklyn. He still commutes to Brooklyn to see his favorite dentist, Dr. Klemons.

Many thanks to my partner Graeme White, Visual Arts Digital Manager for Columbia School of the Arts, my digital guru, who can cause the gears of technology turn with amazing ease.