About Saul Mandel

Saul Mandel

Visionary Master Artist

Creator of the 1960's Jolly Green Giant Character.

Designer and Illustrator of the United States Postal Service 1986 LOVE Stamp.

Designer and Illustrator of the United Nations Postal Administration 1992 Science and Technology Development Set of 6 stamps.

Designer and Illustrator WUFUNA, Limited edition fine art print.

First Day Cover and cachet, United Nations Postal Administration 1992 “Science and Technology for Development,” Set of 6 stamps.

Photograph and biography with actual stamp by Saul Mandel in the United States Postal Service 1986 Commemorative Edition Book.

Photograph and biography with actual stamp by Saul Mandel in the United Nations Postal Administration 1992 Commemorative Edition Book.

Fleetwood International, First Day of Issue Collectible cachets.

Save The Earth, Hanukkah, Atlanta Paralympic Games and the UK British Holiday Greetings print.

PUBLISHED

20 Years of Award Winners, Hasting House 1981

Who’s Who in American Art

Who’s Who in the East

Contemporary Graphic Artist, 1986 Edition

The Graphis Annual and Graphis Magazine, Switzerland

Idea Magazine, Japan

Modern Publicity, England

Art Direction Magazine, USA

Communications Magazine, USA

Upper & Lower Case International, USA

GOLD MEDALS, AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

The Society of Illustrators

The New York Art Directors Club

The Chicago Art Directors Club

The Minneapolis Art Directors Club

The New Jersey Art Directors Club

The Philadelphia Art Directors Club

The institute of Outdoor Advertising

Humor ’87, Exhibitions Award

Creativity on Paper, National Exhibitions Award

The Communications Magazine, Exhibitions Award

LEGENDARY ADVERTISING PROGRAMS and CAMPAIGNS

Green Giant Company

Kent Cigarettes

State Farm Insurance

Bank Of America

General Motors

Lufthansa Airlines 

Air France Airlines

TWA Airlines

Pan Am Airlines

KLM Airlines

Capital Airlines

Allied Chemical 

CBS

NBC

AT&T

Monsanto

IBM Corporation

American Diary Association, Milk Council

LIFE Magazine

New York Time

Gulf Oil

Tenneco Oil

Dupont

United States Postal Service

United Nations Postal Administration

Bronx Zoo

Disneyland

Vifort

Newsday

Mediatric

Allied Chemical Nylon Caprolan Carpet

Bell Telephone

HMO

Exxon

Johnson & Johnson

Pfizer

Advertising Ad Council of America (Don’t Be a Litter Bug, College is your best friend, Smoky Bear

Boy Scouts Of America

International Olympic Committee)

Yellow pages

Hertz Car

Hart Skis

Danone S.A. (Dannon)

Kool Cigarettes

Superior Tire

Colombia Records

RCA

Decca

Colgate

Guiness

Lindt

Lipton Tea

Sterling Salt

Cat Ballou Movie Poster

The Horse’s Mouth 

Snackadoos Foods

Chrysler 

Ford

Orange Juice

Keopectate

BenGay

Colorforms

Pepto Bismol

Temp Tee Cream Cheese

IHOP

Youngstown Sheet and Tube 

Folgers Coffee

Polycrest Carpet

Bristol Myers

Montclair Cigeretts

Admiration Cigar

Capezio

Pepsi

Post Sugar Crisp Cereal, Post Grape Nuts

Nestea

Alcoa phone booth

Wrigleys Doublemint Gum

Sealtest

Nabisco

Lyons Maid

Zee

Milky Way

Egg Council

Mr. Yum

Vigoro

Skittles

LIVE AID

Caladryl

Houston

Presto Foods

LEGENDARY EDITORIAL AND BOOK PROJECTS

Business Week

New Yorker magazine

Time Magazine

Money Magazine

Fortune Magazine

McCall’s Magazine

Ladies Home Journal

Seventeen Magazine

Woman’s Day magazine

Parents Magazine

Bantam Books

Fawcett Books

Madison Ave Magazine

Purchasing Magazine

Grosset Dunlap

Saul Mandel (January 21, 1926 - August 14, 2011) was born in New York City in 1926 then studied art at the High School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan. Upon graduation, Saul married his high school sweetheart Seba before going into the military. 

During World War II he served in the Hawaii-based Art Unit attached to U.S Army Intelligence with the task of disseminating important information to an audience scattered throughout the Pacific theatre. Upon returning to civilian life in 1945 Mandel began his career in commercial arts. He designed record album covers for Columbia Records from his studio in Manhattan with fellow designer Sid Maurer. 

He branched off in his own studio, living in NYC during the 1950’s, until he built a studio in Jericho, NY.

In 1986, Graphis stated that Mandel “. . . deliberately set out to achieve a style that was universal in language and appeal. To this deliberation he added out of his own nature a habit of humor allied to a love of all things childhood. From this there has resulted a style that is simple, smiling and naive, at once widely understood by young and old, by the ingenuous and the sophisticated.” 

Saul received awards from professional graphic art societies including The Society of Illustrators, the New York Art Directors Club, the Chicago Art Directors Club, and industry publications including Communication Arts Magazine and Graphis. Many of his paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Illustration, the Air Force Museum, the New York Zoological Society, the Israel Museum, the Hebrew Arts Institute, and numerous prestigious private collections in the United States and abroad.

After moving to Jericho, New York Saul not only made art and worked from his studio, but also raised his family of 5 children. He was a kind father and devoted, loving husband to Seba his entire life. Seba, who was a writer, and helped manage Saul’s career.

Since Saul's passing in 2011, his middle daughter, Suzy Mandel Canter, has been the representative for his collection. Before he passed, when she was first given responsibility for the collection, she and Saul together produced a Telly Award-winning short film in 2008. The Society of Illustrators has exhibited a retrospective of her father's work from April – July of 2023. Suzy is actively pursuing other projects and ways to inspire a new generation with her father's colorful, happy, positive art.

Future projects include a documentary film about her life and her father's.

“Mandel’s work remains within the traditions of classic graphic art, and is worthy of note for its individuality, success in communicating, and informed intelligence.”