Faculty
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
Saeri Cho
Assistant Professor
Motion Typographer
M.F.A. in Media Design, Art Center College of Design
B.F.A., in Communication Design, Parsons School of Design
Saeri Cho joins the Art Department as an Assistant Professor. Focusing on semantic analysis and fundamental issues of motion typography, she earned an M.F.A. in Media Design from Art Center College of Design. Her thesis entitled, “Understanding Typography in Motion: Type has Two Faces,” explored the role of typography in motion graphics and developed a philosophy for teaching motion typography at the college level. Saeri also holds a B.F.A. in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design in New York . Her work both in print and new media encompasses multiple disciplines and focuses on design research and narrative structures. She has a strong interest in creating experimental images with types. Prior to LMU, she taught visual communication courses at NanYang Technological University in Singapore .
scho6@lmu.edu
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