Rosław Szaybo (13 August 1933, Poznań – 21 May 2019, Warsaw)[1] was a Polish painter, photographer and cover designer.
He graduated in 1961 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and was mentored by Wojciech Fangor and Henryk Tomaszewski.
Between 1972 and 1988 he was signed as the chief artistic director at CBS Records, where he designed over 2000 album covers, mostly for classical music, but also for artists like Elton John, Roy Orbison, Santana, Janis Joplin, The Clash, Mott the Hoople, Judas Priest and John Williams.
Upon his return to Poland in 1993 he started a photography workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and also became artistic director at the Czytelnik publishing house.
Szaybo also designed the cover for Polish jazz pianist Krzysztof Komeda's album Astigmatic.