MRFA Studio is run by Martha Ormiston, an artist and designer who has exhibited in NYC, Chicago and Berlin. She received an MFA from the Image Text Ithaca program in 2019. Martha specializes in design intended for printing and has won two AIGA book design awards.
Resume/CV︎︎︎
Contributions to the Noun Project︎︎︎
Resume/CV︎︎︎
Contributions to the Noun Project︎︎︎
Education
M.F.A. Image + Text, Ithaca College, 2019
B.F.A. Film, Photography, Video & Visual Art, Ithaca College, 2009 Work
Work
MRFA STUDIO, LLC
– Owner (Oct 2010 – Present)
Jenny Holzer Studio
– Freelance Design + Photography Assistant, Mar 2016 – Present
Artbook | D.A.P.
– Freelance Catalog Designer, Oct 2020 - Present
– In-house Creative Director & Lead Designer, Aug 2018 – Jun 2020
– Freelance Catalog Designer, Mar 2018 – Aug 2018
Taschen
– Freelance Book Designer, Mar 2017 – Jun 2017
– Design Fellow, Oct 2016 – Mar 2017
Fission Strategy (now called Do Big Things)
– Freelance Graphic Designer, Mar 2021 – Present
– Creative Director & Lead Designer, Jan 2015 – Apr 2016
– Senior Designer, Dec 2012 – Jan 2015
Before 2012, I worked as a designer (primarily for the web) for Coalition Technologies, Maven Concepts, and Frye/Wiles as well as a few other folks that now escape my memory...
Honors
– AIGA 2019 50 Books | 50 Covers: Book and Cover Winner: The Haitian Chronicles, Boo Hooray, 2019
– AIGA 2019 50 Books | 50 Covers: Cover Winner: The Spectacle of Illusion, D.A.P., 2019
Published Writing
– ????????!!!, a chapbook forthcoming with Ghost Proposal, 2023
– “Spiritco”, Issue No. 5: Goodnight, Plates Journal, 2022
– DING DING DING, Image Text Ithaca & Gato Negro Ediciones
Photographic Exhibitions
– "Alarum" PHmuseum x Ardesia Projects, Online Exhibition, 2019
– "Follow My Hand" ITI MFA Show, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
– "Interior" PEP Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2019
– "Alarum" Ardesia Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2019
– "Fluxuating Monument(s)" Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2017
– "Unassigned" Marian Graves Mugar Gallery at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, 2016
– "PHOTOBOOK 2012" Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2012
– "Portrait: Mirror Mirror" Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012
– “The Art of Photography Show 2009 (curated by Charlotte Cotton)” Lyceum Theatre, San Diego, CA 2009
Film Screenings
Bluestein (6 min, 2019)
– Official Selection “BLOW-UP International Arthouse Filmfest” Chicago, IL, 2020
– "2nd Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival" Berlin, Germany, December 13-14, 2019
– "JOIN ME NOW" Rhizome DC, Washington D.C., USA, September 5, 2019
– "2019 Altered Aesthetics Film Festival" Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 28-29, 2019
– “JOIN ME NOW" Bundy Annex Theater, Binghamton, NY, USA, July 27, 2019