Garland Kirkpatrick

Professor of Graphic Design, College of Communication and Fine Arts

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

Professor of Graphic Design

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Biography

Garland Kirkpatrick is an award-winning graphic designer, curator, and educator whose socio-political graphics have appeared in film, exhibitions, and are in the permanent collections of regional, national, and international museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, the AIGA Design Awards Archives, the Oakland Museum, Self Help Graphics, the Smithsonian, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, and the Zurich University of the Arts, Museum of Design. His graphic designs have been published in editions one and two of The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, by Milton Glaser and Mirco Ilic, The McKinsey Quarterly, and Richard Linklater's independent film Fast Food Nation. He has received national design awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the American Center for Design, and the American Alliance of Museums. Kirkpatrick received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design.

Education

Yale University

M.F.A.

Graphic Design

Institute of Design, Chicago

Post Graduate Work

Amherst College

B.A.

English

Social

Areas of Expertise

Concept Development
Product Design
User Experience
Visual Communication
Project Managemenmt
Information Design
Brand Awareness
Social Design
Typography
Adobe Creative Suite

Industry Expertise

Public Relations and Communications
Social Media
Graphic Design
Education/Learning
Fine Art

Accomplishments

City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design

2003-01-01

Received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design

Affiliations

  • Made in Northern California
  • Industrial Design
  • Graphic Design & Art Director
  • Yale School of Art Alumni

Media Appearances

Garland Kirkpatrick

American Institute of Graphic Arts  online

2010-01-01

Chicago in the 1960s was an exhilarating place for Garland Kirkpatrick to grow up.

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Design Professor Selected for AIGA ‘Design Journeys’

LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts newsletter  online

2010-08-20

Garland Kirkpatrick, associate professor of design in Loyola Marymount University’s College of Communication and Fine Arts, was recently selected by the AIGA, formerly known as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as one of 25 national and international designers to be featured in a new collection of stories “Design Journeys.”

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Designer Garland Kirkpatrick: Keeping Social Issues Alive

Print Magazine  online

2017-10-28

The body of Garland’s work on display was designed to memorialize the upswing of racial killings by police and hate crimes in the 1990s.

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Event Appearances

Speaker

Speaker Event Winter 2015 California State University at Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA

2015-01-01

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