Paul Giambarba

---- Paul Giambarba (born 1928) is an American graphic designer, cartoonist, writer and illustrator.

He initiated Polaroid's corporate image development and product identity in 1958. His innovative black packaging and the ubiquitous Polaroid color stripes subdued the dominance of Eastman Kodak's yellow packaging at the point-of-purchase. Giambarba designed and produced hundreds of Polaroid packages and collateral material including consumer literature and How to Make Better Polaroid Instant Pictures, a trade book for Doubleday & Co. in his more than a quarter of a century for this client.

Giambarba has also been a design consultant for Tonka Toys and Tonka Corporation, as well as Polaroid and other corporate clients. His work has been the subject of articles in Graphis (Zurich), Industrial Design, American Artist, Idea (Tokyo), Relax (Tokyo), Grafik (London), Brand eins (Hamburg) and Communication Arts.

In his capacity as a cartoonist and illustrator, Giambarba was a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated and This Week magazine, as well as True and Spy magazines. He was a member of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators during the nine years he lived in Sonoma County, California. Giambarba is the author of thirteen books, founded the Scrimshaw Press and CapeArts magazine, and was, with his wife, Fran, a founding partner of Arts & Flowers, publisher of botanically accurate greeting cards from 1985 through 1996.

Honors and awards

*Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of New York
*Certificates of Merit, Art Directors Club of New York
*Gold Medals, Art Directors Club of Boston
*Certificates of Merit, Art Directors Club of Boston
*Certificates of Excellence, American Institute of Graphic Arts Packaging 1972, 1974, 1976
*Andy Awards, Advertising Club of New York
*Hatch Awards, Advertising Club of Boston
*Certificate of Excellence of Design, Industrial Design magazine Annual Design Review
* Invited Lecturer at:
**Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
**Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
**Simmons College, Boston, MA.

External links

* [http://www.giambarba.com Paul Giambarba, main website]
* [http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/ "The Branding of Polaroid: How we beat Eastman Kodak and its little yellow boxes in the marketplace despite a clunky product and an irrelevant corporate name. " blog] - Polaroid's quest for a graphic design identity. (A one-time Yahoo pick of the week).
* [http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/ "100 Years of Illustration" blog]
* [http://www.giambarba.com/caricatures/new.html Giambarba's caricatures]