Garland Kirkpatrick

Garland Kirkpatrick (born 1960) is an American designer, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles.

Career Post graduate 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 designers, Armin Hofmann and Paul Rand.

Kirkpatrick's graphic design work has been recognized by three national competitions for graphic design: the American Alliance of Museums' national museum publication competition; the American Center for Design (ACD) 100 show (1927-2002); and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Communication Graphics competition. He received the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for Design from the Department of Cultural Affairs (2003), and subsequent design consulting grants for exhibition graphics and publications in 2007, 2014, 2020, 2021, and 2025.

His work is held in the permanent collections of: the American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Archives (AIGA); the Denver Art Museum, AIGA Awards Archive, Denver, CO (1991–Present); the Caridad Archive of Chicano Printmaking in California (CEMA), University of California, Santa Barbara; the Center for the Study of Political Graphics; the Design Museum of Chicago, Great Ideas of Humanity: One of a Series (2025); the eMuseum of the Museum of Design, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland; Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles; the Gerald Buck Collection, University of California, Irvine, California; the Huntington Museum, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas; the Institute of Texas Cultures, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Online Archives of California.

Filmography His graphic designs have appeared in the independent film directed by Richard Linklater, Fast Food Nation (2006), the political thriller directed by Charles Liburd, Game (2013), and Digging the Suez Canal with a Teaspoon (2019), a documentary film by David Stairs and Eric Limarenko.