Gregory Van Zuyen

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Gregory Van Zuyen is an Art and Creative Director whose work has spanned a decade of innovative magazine design. Responsible for garnering Maggie Awards for Genre magazine and Animation Magazine, Van Zuyen was instrumental in the late 90s and the early portion of the 21st century for pushing clean, colorful design and inventive uses of type through the use of Adobe Photoshop techniques. Additional publications for which Van Zuyen is best known include Language magazine, Pro Lights and Staging News and the Hollywood Video Insider, a short-lived publication offered in-store in the second-largest video rental chain in the United States.

Receiving degrees from Occidental College in 1986 for studio art and English, Van Zuyen was mentored by the sculptor George Baker and the painter Bob Hanson. Both of these artists stressed a simplicity of design and an emphasis on seeing the context of presentation as an intregal component of the artwork itself. Based on these principles and similar philosophies from such artists as John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Van Zuyen's design style developed an appreciation of the magazine as an individual artwork and an accroutrement to the reader's lifestyle.

Van Zuyen's work also includes designs for such companies as BlackLine Systems and The Laboratory of Flowers. He has also contributed graphic work for such entertainers as Bird York and Jurassic 5.