Garland Kirkpatrick

 Garland Kirkpatrick
Associate Professor
Social Designer

M.F.A. in Graphic Design, Yale University
Graduate work, Institute of Design , Chicago
B.A., Amherst College

Garland Kirkpatrick is a social designer and educator. In 1995 he formed Helvetica Jones, a ‘needs based’ creative practice focusing on designing identities for community groups, cultural organizations, and progressive businesses. His social graphics have appeared in the The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, The McKinsey Quarterly , and the recent indie film Fast Food Nation . He has received awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the American Center for Design. In 2003 he received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design. His design work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in various permanent collections including the AIGA Design Archive, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum —Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest , and Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles.

gkirkpatrick@lmu.edu