Garland Kirkpatrick 
Professor of Graphic Design, College of Communication and Fine Arts | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
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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 (3)
Yale University: M.F.A., Graphic Design
Institute of Design, Chicago: Post Graduate Work
Amherst College: B.A., English
Areas of Expertise (10)
Project Managemenmt
Information Design
Brand Awareness
Social Design
Typography
Adobe Creative Suite
Concept Development
Product Design
User Experience
Visual Communication
Industry Expertise (5)
Social Media
Graphic Design
Education/Learning
Fine Art
Public Relations and Communications
Accomplishments (1)
City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design (professional)
2003-01-01
Received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design
Affiliations (4)
- Made in Northern California
- Industrial Design
- Graphic Design & Art Director
- Yale School of Art Alumni
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Media Appearances (3)
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.
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.”
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.
Event Appearances (1)
Speaker
Speaker Event Winter 2015 California State University at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
2015-01-01
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