Alex Fekete
Assistant Professor
ING Slovak Polytechnic, MFA University of Illinois
Aside from academia, Alex Fekete works as a design consultant and sculpts objects in blown glass. His work appeared in New York Times, Business Week, Times Magazine, GQ and Absolute Sound.
Alex first arrived in the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship. After completing his MFA in Industrial Design he was professionally active in Silicon Valley. JAVA Station - the joined effort by M&P and Sun Microsystems - earned several prestigious awards, including Gold IDEA Award and Best Internet Hardware Award. Subsequently, his collaboration with Balanced Audio Technology gathered respect in the high end audio/video industry and also generated awards ranging from Golden Ear to Product of the Year Award.
Alex’s affair with glassblowing started during graduate studies and has continued since. Minimalist Glass Objects he creates found residence in public and private collections in U.S. and EU.
He was born in Bratislava, then-Czechoslovakia.
EMAIL: afekete@nmu.edu
