Marci Roth
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Graphic designer/Illustrator |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | Marci Roth began her career as a graphic designer and art director in Dallas, Texas with a small advertising firm. She went on to work for Nike in their Image Design group in Oregon, designing print materials and art directing photo shoots. Today, Marci works both as a freelance designer and as an illustrator. In her illustration work, she integrates nostalgia with a modern twist in her digital collage illustrations. She finds her source material in old periodicals and textbooks, as well as family photographs abandoned in thrift stores. Working from her Portland, Oregon home studio, Marci has cultivated an exciting roster of clients inlcuding, The Washington Post, Random House, EMI Records, Psychology Today, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Better Homes and Gardens, Candlewick Press, Crown Books for Young Readers, Scholastic, Inc., Orange Coast Magazine, North Shore Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal (Europe). |
| Interests | laughing, biking, eating, the dharma, movies, |
| Favorite movies | the graduate, the big lebowski, there will be blood, delicattesen, breakfast at tiffany's, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, 21 grams, american beauty, adaptation, fargo |
| Favorite music | radiohead, the stranglers, elliott smith, the cure,clap your hands say yeah, clash, the strokes, jolie holland, dandy warhols, bright eyes, white stripes, iron & wine, gillian welch, M.I.A., starf%$@#* (another awesome band from Portland: check 'em out!), moby |
| Favorite books | the true history of the kelly gang, blindness, the little friend, the secret history, catch-22, of human bondage, me talk pretty one day, middlesex, the what is the what, fall on your knees, the monkey wrench, the angle of repose, bel canto. |