CARLOS ZAMORA

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CARLOS ZAMORA (he/him)
Chief Creative Officer, Founder

A Cuban-American designer and illustrator, CARLOS ZAMORA is the Chief Creative Officer and Founder of CARTEL. Zamora’s award-winning illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scholastics, New York Observer, The Boston Globe, Advertising Age, American Lawyer, and The Wall Street Journal. Zamora earned his Bachelor of Arts from Havana Design Institute (ISDI), Cuba’s premier design school, in 2000. A father, an author and educator, Zamora is also a former President of AIGA St. Louis. He currently serves as a board member for Lambert International Airport Art Advisory Committee and the Tennessee Williams Festival. He cherishes a fondness for poster design, Russian cartoons, propaganda art and cigars. He has received the Communication Arts Award of Excellence in the categories of Illustration and Typography. His work has been featured in the Society of Illustrators, 3X3 Magazine, Illustration World and Creative Quarterly. His poster for Cinco de Mayo in Cherokee Street made it to Los Diez, the top ten latino illustrations of the Year by American Illustration. He is currently working on The Poster Festival of the Américas, an initiative aimed to unite poster designers from Cuba and the United States, while looking for publishers for his most recent picture book The Forest Within.

  • MY MORNING ROUTINE ISN’T COMPLETE WITHOUT

    A stroll down Demun to grab a coffee at Khaldi's.

  • MY DESIGN HERO IS

    My poster design professor Alfredo Rostgaard. His bleeding rose poster for 1967's Canción Protesta Festival, synthesizes the vision of Cuba that I aligned with.

  • MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS LOVE TO CALL ME

    Zamora, Zam, Zammy David Junior, El Charlie, Charlitín, Kaki, Carli, Zorro or just Z.

  • YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE I LIKE

    Country Music. It's all about storytelling.

  • MY FAVORITE FONT IS

    Gill Sans - this was the font that introduced me the world, history and nuance of Typography back in design school.

  • MY LAST MEAL WOULD BE

    Arroz, frijoles, bistec y platanito / White Rice, Black Beans, Steak and a Banana.