Sergio Baradat
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Sergio Baradat is an internationally celebrated designer, illustrator and photographer.
His work is a unique marriage of timeless neoclassic sensibility mixed with an unmistakably contemporary point of view. Sergio’s work is definitively of the 21st century.
This year, Sergio’s work was selected by two separate juries comprised of the top design and publishing world professionals to be part of the American Illustration Annual and American Photography Annual – achieving a record as the first individual ever to be selected for inclusion in both publications in their 20 plus year history. (Release date November 2007.)
Sergio has worked with such notable clients as AT&T, ITT, Au Bon Pain, Bloomingdale's, Condé Nast, Esteé Lauder, Maybelline, and Swatch. His illustrations and designs have appeared in every major newspaper; The New York Times, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post; and in major publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, GQ, Newsweek, and Forbes. He has illustrated over thirty book covers for Doubleday, St.Martins Press, Harper Collins, Simon&Schuster, and Random House; as well as album covers and posters for Motown, BMG, Polygram, Arista, and Sony.
His work is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design in New York and The Postal Museum in Washington DC as well as many private collections.
Sergio received a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York. He has received numerous awards from the AIGA, the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles and New York, an expose in Print Magazine, Communication Arts, American Illustration and Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. Sergio has been honored by the cities of Coral Gables and Miami Beach Florida with the keys to the city and a certificate of commendation for his work with the USPS.
Sergio has also been mentoring some of the brightest minds in the field of illustration and design for the past 14 years at Parsons School of Design in New York. Sergio currently divides his time between New York City and Miami Beach.