Paul Giambarba

Paul Francis Giambarba (October 15, 1928 – May 1, 2023) was an American graphic designer, cartoonist, writer and illustrator.

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.

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 was a member of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators during the nine years he lived in Sonoma County, California.

Giambarba's work was introduced at the International Center of Photography in New York City on 18 December 2009, a collection of 15 film and 3 camera packages for the Paul Giambarba Edition of Polaroid cameras and film commissioned by Dr. Florian Kaps, founder and director of The Impossible Project of Vienna, Austria.