Stanislaw Zagórski

Shortly after arriving, he was contacted by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, who offered him the chance to exhibit some of his work for a show they had planned in September.

Paula Scher, a student at Tyler at the time Zagórski was teaching, credits him as "a very important mentor".

[11] Scher recalls that Zagórski encouraged her to "illustrate with type" and "those three words made my entire career".

[9] She also remembers traveling to New York with Zagórski in 1970, where she "made the rounds with her portfolio", visiting Push Pin Studios, where she met Seymour Chwast, who would later become her husband.

[12] During his career, Zagórski illustrated covers for Stereo Review, Time Magazine and Opera News.

[1][16] He went on to design covers for Ray Charles, Cream, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Harris,[17] Barney Kessel,[18] Roland Kirk,[19] Professor Longhair,[20] Blind Willie McTell,[20] The Rascals, Otis Redding,[21] Sam & Dave, Shirley Scott,[22] The Spinners,[23] The Velvet Underground and Jimmy Yancey[24] In 1970, he designed the album cover for Loaded by the Velvet Underground.

[25] Fricke opined, "the cover has its own charm; it certainly suits the record's playful spirit of commercial subversion and is a neat twist on the Velvets' then-standing reputation as drugged-up terrors".

[25] Atlantic also commissioned Zagórski to create posters for some of the companies roster of artists to display in record stores.

Some of his notable posters included: Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Wilson Pickett, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, The Bee Gees, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer and Herbie Mann.

[33] American scholar of religion Stephen Prothero described Zagórski's illustration of Jesus as a "freak to end all freaks ... bedazzled with pink skin and purple hair and framed by a psychedelic rainbow ... whether this Jesus was communing with his people or tripping on LSD is open to interpretation, but he was clearly experiencing an altered state of consciousness".