Garland Kirkpatrick

Garland Kirkpatrick (born 1960) is an American designer, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles. Career Kirkpatrick's work includes: social graphics visualizing complex socio-political issues ranging from the criminal justice system - capital punishment, mass incarceration, police brutality, and recidivism - to the environment, HIV-AIDS, homophobia, immigrant rights, and racism; and graphic design for cultural institutions, and community based organizations. After postgraduate work at the Institute of Design in Chicago (1985-1987), he received his Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design (1990) from Yale University where he studied under modernist design icons Paul Rand, Armin Hofmann, and Alvin Eisenman. Kirkpatrick taught as a regular faculty in the Graphic Design program at the California Institute of the Arts (1992-2002), and served as Program Director for two years. He continues to teach design as a Professor at Loyola Marymount University, where he served as art department Chair (2011-2016).