Michael Patrick Cronan

Michael Patrick Cronan (June 9, 1951 – January 1, 2013) was an American graphic designer, artist and a Fellow of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design that became known as the "Pacific Wave".

Cronan was born in San Francisco, California in 1951 and grew up near Sacramento. As a teenager he learned letterpress printing and became an artist in a local print shop where he created posters. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he later served as adjunct professor of graphic design from 1981-2001. In 1971, he went abroad to study archeology and work as an archaeological dig manager for Hebrew University in the Negev Desert and the at Dead Sea. In 1974 he received a bachelor's degree in Fine Art from California State University, Sacramento.

Cronan and partner Karin Hibma established Michael Patrick Cronan Design in 1980.

Cronan was a founding member of the American Institute of Graphic Art (AIGA) chapter in San Francisco and the AIGASF chapter president after serving on the AIGA national board for three years.

In 1981 Cronan designed SUSHI, a book that launched a new form of food book. In 1985 Cronan was included with thirty-five American Designers in "Pacific Wave" an exhibition of graphic design curated by Giorgio Camuffo at Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.

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