American multi-disciplinary artist, creative director of branding and graphic design is all about the creative process in every aspect of design. Kenneth is a native from Albany, GA, who has worked in Milan, Italy, for more than two decades with experience in visual communication, brand imaging, and developing creative products from print to new media in the European market.
Creative Director
In 1991, Kenneth opened Bridger Graphic Communication in Milan, Italy. For more than 24 years, he helped clients focus on a branding strategy to synchronize all the elements of the brand identity across a line of products or services, which create a unique user-centered experience.
Since 2019, Kenneth is a digital nomad, graphic design consultant as he travels the back roads of the USA in his 1916 FORD Model T Touring.
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Kenneth is tirelessly creative, energetic and future-oriented with his research on creative solutions for his many projects. He approaches all his creative projects: graphic design, packaging, marketing, photography, teaching, etc, like a scientist. He puts in many hours of research into fields that he is unfamiliar with and finds innovative solutions.
AWARDS
1996
Annual Report – Gewiss SpA, Italy
Nomination Best Annual Report, Italy
1995
Corporate Identity – Sergio Tornaghi Fotografo – SILVER
How Int’l Design Contest, U.S.A.
1995
Corporate Identity – BGC – SILVER
Arjo Wiggins Nat’l Design Contest, Italy
1994
Corporate Identity – BGC – BRONZE
Art Directors Club Italiano, Italy
1994
Corporate Identity – BGC – BRONZE
Art Directors Club Italiano, Italy
PUBBLICATIONS
2015
Lugano, Switzerland
Work Stlye Magazine
2014
Thomasville, GA
THOM Magazine – Thomasville Center of the Arts
2002
Milan, Italy
CGEY Intranet – Talent
2000
Milan, Italy
Il poligrafico
Italian Packaging Magazine
1998
Milan, Italy
Creative Impulse 5
Italian Design Magazine
1997
Milan, Italy
N.2 Climax
Italian Typography Magazine
1996
New York, NY USA
The 72nd Art Director Annual
1996
Rome, Italy
Italian Art Director Club 96
1996
Switzerland
Graphis Design 95
1996
Switzerland
Graphis Packaging 96
1996
USA
How Intn’l Annual of Design
Artist
Kenneth’s creative roots are based on design, branding, and visual communication; however, another one of his life passions is art. He is not defined by one type of artistic expression. He discovers inspiration by what is given to him, and he modifies it into a new expression of itself, because of this he earned the nicknamed Modification Man.
As an artist, Kenneth was invited to study with the late mystic Sufi teacher, Sheikh Khalifa Gabriel Mandel Khan, in Milan, Italy. Maestro Khan emphasized the importance of being an artist and connecting to one’s spiritual higher self. Art holds the key to unleash hidden forces, which inspires, heals, and transforms one’s being while allowing a profound spiritual growth through creativity. Kenneth learned the importance of numbers, letters, symbols, sounds and light, the hidden meaning of names, and sacred geometry.
“Our heart is a river of love into which merges the waters of our lives.”
~Maestro Khan
In 2014, Kenneth led a research committee in Greenville, South Carolina exploring how Art and Science can come together to create change in the community and have a strong social-economical impact. Kenneth’s vision was to bridge Clemson University’s Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL) and Brandon Mills Artistic Space as a think tank for creative solutions.
Kenneth’s creative interest are vast; seeing how art can create positive change in community, jewelry making to building kinetic sculptures, to restoring a Model T. His current artistic project is called Towards the Unknown which is a multi-dimensional, experiential, artistic, visual storytelling journey across the USA on dirt roads and scenic byways in his 1916 Ford Model T Touring. Along the way, Kenneth captures soul stories of the characters he encounters, photographs forgotten moments in time, harvest sound textures and weave them into a visual, poetic tapestry of short stories and video clips.
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Artistic Creations
Kenneth is a multi-disciplinary artist that is motivated in everything that he does by his strong desire to understand the world around him. He is open-minded to new people and new experiences, which has taken him literally around the globe. All of these “life” experiences enrich Kenneth’s repertoire of artistic creations. Besides being a dedicated artist, Kenneth is a Brand Manager and Creative Director, who has restyled our business logo.
SOLO EXHIBITS AND INSTALLATIONS
2011
Albany, GA USA
eartHeart
Albany Arts Counsel
2004
Milan, Italy
Transparent Timelessness
Installation, Salone di Mobile
Milan furniture fair
2004
Grondona, Italy
“Tornare all’origine” Performance / installation
2001
Milan, Italy
Sounds 360°
Performance / Installation
2001
Milan, Italy
Sri Lanka, Land of Serendipity
Photographic exhibit, Studio Azemar
1997
Milan, Italy
Ramo Fiorito
Performance / installation, East Studios
GROUP EXHIBITS
2015
Atlanta, GA USA
Kinetic Sculpture Installation
Atlanta Belt Line
2014
Atlanta, GA, USA
Kinetic Sculpture Installation
Atlanta Belt Line
2014
Thomasville, GA USA
Fluant
Winner – Best in show, Installation
2013
Thomasville, GA USA
Point South
Mural design
2013
Thomasville, GA USA
Blue
Thomasville Center of the Arts
2012
Thomasville, GA USA
Change
Thomasville Center of the Arts,
2007
Venezia, Italy
Murano Glass Design
International design competition
“The Heart of Venice”.
2002
Portofino, Italy
Walk in time
Galleria Hotel Kulm, Mixed media art
2002
Canzo, Italy
Africa – Echoes of the earth
Performance
2001
Trento, Italy
Uscita di Sicurezza
Performance, Compagnia Teatrale di Trento
Mystic
At the early age of six, Kenneth realized he could hear his intuition, also known as being clairaudient.
At seventeen, he had his first spontaneous out-of-body experience, which changed his perception of reality. That mystical experience began his exploration and discovery of non-material worlds and states of mind through meditation.
At the age of thirty-eight, he began a full emersion, three-year psychotherapy journey and began to discover a reservoir of information and inner material gone completely unnoticed. The therapist pointed out that Kenneth had strong connections to shamanism, which he was totally clueless about what that actually meant. Shamanism is an ancient practice, since time millennium, that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness to perceive and interact with the spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.
Immediately after discovering this hidden realization, he found himself leading a film crew deep into the Cameroon forest, making a documentary. What followed was life changing. He stumbled upon a Baka pygmy ceremony, where the rhythmic drumming on hollowed-out tree trunks put all the dancers into a trance. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he would attract many ceremonies in various parts of the world. All of the ceremonies used sounds and rhythms, as a door to open up other dimensions of reality. Needless to say, Kenneth was fascinated.
For the next 20 years, he has traveled to more than 36 countries, in which he encountered indigenous tribes, cultures, elders, healers, and shamans. In Africa, he met the Bushmen of the Namid desert, the Samburu tribesmen of northern Kenya. The regal nomadic Perl tribesmen in the sub-Sahara Desert of Mali showed him the beauty of owning few material things in life. In the Amazon forest, Kenneth was introduced to Grandmother plant medicine Ayahuasca and the poisonous frog Sapo. He spent time in the ancient Maya village of Sisbicchén Yucatan with a traditional healer and medicine man Abuelo Antonio Oxté. In the dead of winter, Kenneth was invited to the Sakha Republic of Northern Siberia, to explore the Taiga Forest in search of the nomadic Yakut shamans.
A medicine woman from Uzbekistan revealed to Kenneth that names carry a vibration. It was not by chance his name had a strong meaning for his life purpose, Bridger, one who builds bridges. It turned out that Kenneth discovered that he had a hidden talent of being a Death Doula in helping people to cross-over.
In 2017, Kenneth was the host of honor for a NAC – Half Moon Deer ceremony to help him and his family to heal the emotional heart pains for the crossing over of his youngest daughter Alica Futura Bridger.
All of these life-expanding experiences brought forth messages, personal growth and artistic inspiration.
Elders
Kenneth radiates conviction when speaking of his experiences. When you understand his artistic philosophy, experience his work, or ever find yourself in his presence, you may begin to think there isn’t anything on earth that he couldn’t turn into something profoundly meaningful. You certainly won’t be able to resist petting the squirrel he’ll produce from his pocket, a tiny creature he named “GuRu2,” the Sanskrit word for “spiritual teacher”.
GuRu2
Teacher
Kenneth is a creative coach. He has held creative, inner-awakening retreats in Italy called Harmonic Resonance Integration. His technique that he developed brings awareness of the power of creative imagination and the ability to manifest reality through one’s thought-patterns. These workshops are an inner journey of rediscovering the Self and finding the Path to a Spiritual Higher Purpose.
Kenneth developed the M&Ms workshop (Motivational Music & Movement), which builds self-esteem by creating an atmosphere in which people can freely express their thoughts and emotions through body movement, music and rhythm, voice, and breathing exercises. Through this technique, one explores the state of “relaxed alertness” which enables one to clear their minds and allow their subconscious to receive uncluttered messages. He uses visualization as a tool for creative thinking and feeding the imagination, as well as promoting a strong sense of identity.
In Italy, Kenneth was a hands-on artistic instructor that stimulated the creativity of elementary school children, who were socially disadvantaged by race, ethics, religious beliefs, and social-economical status, through art, body movement, and music.
I had the privilege to collaborate with Kenneth and co-create workshops, experiential seminars, sweat lodges, to hold space in sacred circles, and spontaneous happenings worldwide. Each event has been unique, successful, and otherworldly. From an intensive workshop called EarthHeart held in caves in Italy, to doing bodywork in Goblin Valley, Utah, to initiations held in lava tunnels in Hawaii, together we were at service helping people on their evolutionary process.