Paul Giambarba

Paul Giambarba was Polaroid's first art director and creator of corporate image development and product identity. He created the ubiquitous Polaroid color stripes, one of the most widely imitated design devices of the last several decades, 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.

Giambarba has also been a design consultant for Tonka Toys and Tonka Corporation, as well as Polaroid, the Gillette Company International; and His Highness Aga Khan. 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.

He has written and/or illustrated books for Atlantic/Little,Brown, Houghton-Mifflin, Barre Publishers and On Cape Publications and is the author/illustrator of a baker's dozen of books for the Scrimshaw Press which he founded in 1965. An exhibition of his photographs was held at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2008.