Barry Zaid

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Barry Zaid (born June 8, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a graphic artist and designer, his artworks have appeared on the covers of magazines like Vogue and National Lampoon and boxes for Celestial Seasonings.

[edit] Background

Zaid studied English, Architecture and Archaeology at the University of Toronto (1957–1961). While a student, he designed posters for the Hart House Theatre and Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and had a one man show of drawings and paintings at Toronto's Pollock Gallery in 1961. After graduating he worked in a design studio (Rapier Arts Ltd.) in London, England and traveled throughout Europe (1961-1962). Following his return to Canada he worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator and as a studio art director (Colopy Associates) in Toronto (1963-66). He then returned to London where he freelanced for two years, represented by Artist Partners Ltd. (1966-68) before joining the New York design consortium Push Pin Studios, (principals: Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser) with whom he worked for six years (1969-75). His work appeared in the exhibition, 'The Push Pin Style' in the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Louvre, Paris, France, as well as numerous cities in Europe, Brazil and Japan (1970-72). In 1975 he travelled to Scotland, where he lived at the commune, Findhorn, then lived in Bienne, Switzerland, Amsterdam, and Pondicherry, India. From 1976-68 Zaid taught at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has also taught at New York's School of Visual Arts and Parson's School of Design, the Rocky Mountain School of art in Denver, Colorado and The Miami Ad School in Miami Beach.

From 1979-87 he lived in Boulder, Colorado, where as Creative Director, he created trendsetting packaging for Celestial Seasonings Herb Teas, posters for the Colorado Music Festival, and decorative hand crafted furniture for Bunnyville Studios Inc. He returned to Manhattan (1987-92). In 1992 he moved his studio to Miami Beach, Florida where he currently resides and works.

Zaid has contributed covers and drawings to numerous magazines and newspapers including Canadian publications, The Globe and Mail, the Star Weekly, Chatelaine, Toronto Life and Maclean's, the Australian edition of Vogue, British magazines such as British Vogue, The Times, 'Queen', and The Sunday Times, the French 'Mademoiselle Age Tendre', and numerous American publications including The New York Times, Time, Audience, TV Guide, Woman's Day, National Lampoon, Esquire, Sesame Street Magazine, New York magazine, Seventeen, McCalls, Highlights for Children, and Denver Magazine.

He has illustrated and designed several books including 'The Chocolate Moose' by Gwendolyn MacEwen (Toronto, Ontario: New Canadian Publications, 1981), 'Toyland' by Pamela Prince (New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1990), 'Jenifer Lang Cooks for Kids' by Jenifer Lang (New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1991), 'Enola Prudhomme's ‘Low-Calorie Cajun Cooking' (New York, NY: Hearst Books, 1991) and ’Rimes de la Mere Oie: Mother Goose Rhymes in French' (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.1971 co-illustrated with Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser). His illustrated 'Chicken Little' (New York, NY: Random House, 1973), was awarded a Gold Medal by the Society of Illustrators. He wrote and designed ‘Wish You Were Here: A Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card” (NY: Crown Publishers,1990) and designed ‘South Beach Style’ (NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002). He has also designed jackets and covers for many titles including 'No Nudes is Good Nudes' by P.G. Wodehouse (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970), 'My Revolution: Promenades in Paris 1789-1794, Being The Diary of Restif de la Bretonne' by Alex Karmel (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1970), 'The First to Fly: Aviation's Pioneer Days' (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1970), the eponymous 'Art Deco' by Bevis Hillier (Studio Vista/Dutton, 1968), 'Arrive at Easterwine' by R.A. Lafferty (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971), 'Patience & Sarah' by Isabel Miller (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 'Sandmouth' by Ronald Frame (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988) and 'The Past is Another Country' (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988).

In addition, Zaid has designed several billboards for 7-Up, and hundreds of logos, including Miami Beach Sports, Upper Crust Sandwich Shop, The Dawg House, Florida Bay Mortgage, The Conch Farm, Chateau Le Chat, and The Market Company, and packaging for Kleenex tissues, Celestial Seasonings Herb Teas, Florence Gunnarson Perfumed Essentials, Captain Condom, Tropical Delicious, Tropic Lines(Jamaica), We Take The Cake, and Granny Bear Honey.