Frank Varela is a graphic designer born to a family of Cuban political exiles. A UCLA graduate, Varela has designed and art directed for properties such as The X-Files and ER. He specializes in corporate identity and logo design. His award-winning logos have appeared in various graphic design books and publications, including the book CONCEPTiCONS.
Frank Varela is the package designer of Man-Bat, a fictional character in the DC Universe who first appeared in Detective Comics #400. Man-Bat was also featured in Mattel's DCSH (Super Heroes) line. The brown version was scheduled for series 8, but was dropped and replaced by Catwoman. A white version of Man-Bat was featured as a San Diego Comic Convention exclusive in packaging designed by Frank Varela of Mattel Toys.
As a Mattel Graphic Designer, Frank Varela won the 2006 Best Packaging Design Award in the Entertainment Division for fictional character Solomon Grundy - "Rumble Pack." Frank Varela designed the grand daddy of the Mattel San Diego Comic Con items for 2010, Starro. This pack is a recreation of the classic Brave and the Bold cover and features light and sounds as well as the voice of Batman actor Kevin Conroy. Each figure in the set has a recorded description just like a museum display with Kevin describing the origin of each character.
Frank's CONCEPTiCONS Psychic Aries design was a pick in LOGO LOUNGE, a best-selling international logo design book Logo Lounge 4, published by Rockport Publisher in February 2008.
Frank Varela is the great-great-grandson of Cuban Colonel José Luis Chinea Maimó, who was in charge of the Air Force in the Province of Havana under Cuban President Carlos Prío Socarrás and Chief of the Armed Forces, General Genobebo Pérez Dámera. Carlos Prío Socarrás (July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977) was the 16th President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.
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Famous quotes containing the word frank:
“I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life.”
—Edward T. Lowe, and Frank Strayer. Dr. von Niemann (Lionel Atwill)