ABOUT MARC

I started commercially designing at the young age of sixteen years old. Simply because I was interested in airbrush illustration at that time. Once I started using the airbrush and learned many techniques, to create effects only the airbrush could accomplish at the time. I would design mostly signs, fliers, tee-shirts and business cards in a time when cut and paste actually involved blades and rubber cement.

My computer skills are even older than my design abilities, starting at 11 years old, back in 1984. The Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL, were the first two models I started with. Learning how to program in Atari’s program language and the 800XL was my first exposure to an actual drawing tablet. From there I went on to Apple IIe and IBM using native programs, such as Lotus products and Dazzle Draw.

After high school I started taking courses in fine art and design at SUNY Suffolk and Nassau. I also took a summer program at Wilson Technical School in a desktop program called Aldus Pagemaker (later bought by Adobe). I was working sales at an art gallery in Huntington Village, called Film Art’s Cartoon World and was tasked with creating the certificates of authenticity for the artwork. The only program they had was MS Publisher, so I learned that. on the fly and I also learned about databases, and started using Q&A database. Used for client sales tracking and inventory control. I also was involved in art restoration, working on animation production cells and the original clay art from the claymation production Gumby.

From there I got hired by Reprographics Technologies Inc. where I was tasked with designing financial statements for some of the largest financial institutes including MetLife, Chase, Bank of New York, and MorganStanley /Dean Witter. I have been designing for print and web ever since, keeping current with the latest software from Adobe, Microsoft, and Pre-Press packages like Fiery and Apogee.

After 9-11, the financial printing industry in New York took a big hit. Which led to my move to Las Vegas NV. I spent 5 years there. Working different jobs, (Casino, Tech Support, Limo Driver). I eventually started working for Passkey Systems.
Passkey was a full service mail house, with PRINT and MAIL capabilities. They liked my background in variable data, with the Financial Printing experience and that I understood the joining of data and graphic design. I wanted to come back to NY, so in the summer of 2008, I quit Passkey Systems to move.

With the real estate collapse of 2008, I took a position with an Online Tool Distributor called Dynamite Tool Co. Here I developed my web design and animation skills. Creating web pages with rich content, full of interactive media and demo videos. Working here left me very little time to create for myself, so when a position became available at a digital printer called Electronic Printing Inc. I took it.

E.P.I. or Electronic Printing Inc. was a full service, on demand digital printer. Here I was able not only get their work completed. They gave me the opportunity to use their equipment to make my own designs. I took advantage of the all the printers I now had available to me. Specifically, the large format flat bed printers. Then the owner wanted to sell EPI to a company called New Horizon Graphics, and with that his staff.

I worked for New Horizon for roughly 9 months. We were not a good fit. This was an old school offset printer, with 1 digital press. Because of their lack of understanding on how to sell digital printing vs traditional offset printing, they didn’t see me more than just a digital press operator. So that led to me leaving.

I was then doing mostly Freelance work, because my former boss from EPI was continually sending me graphic design work.  As this went on, a client of his, (M.A.P.S.) was looking for a designer/marketer for their Physical Therapy Seminar business. So, in February of 2020, I started working for Maitland-Australian Physiotherapy Seminars, where I currently work.