Design/Illustration — Martystuff

Throughout his career, Marty has worked extensively as a designer for print and web.

Marty has experience implementing designs in his distinctive style for flyers, digital advertising, on packaging, and in pitch decks. He has done extensive design work supporting both his own projects for Martystuff and Sock Puppet City as well as work for private clients.

While experienced with many styles, much of Marty's poster work features the unique collaged use of ornate Victorian and baroque designs, a technique also featured with his Old Timey Automatons.

Making use of digital collage, Marty often utilizes repeated imagery, mostly old-timey etchings, to create dense and visually-engaging fields and forms for information to sit in and interact with.

Art Direction and Commisioned Design

Marty has also worked extensively with clients both organizing art design and then implementing layouts of commissioned materials. Here for Trusty Sidekick Marty art directed the logo and implementation of key materials.

After initial commissions, Marty also implemented many layouts in keeping with established look and feel.

Another supplemental design for Perfect Party for Trees, created by Marty to maintain consistent look and feel.

The Cosmic Cadets is an IP created by Jason Vandewalle. Marty has worked extensively for this IP with art direction and supplemental layouts. Above is a cover page with final illustrations by InfeHnite Design, with art direction and concepts by Marty.

Marty's design has often been used in the creation of pitch documents for major organizations such as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Hasbro.

Illustration

Marty's illustration style, when left to its own devices, tends more towards an idiosyncratic simplicity.

Here, Marty was commissioned to make a simple Save the Date wedding coaster.

Pictured here is a comic strip commissioned for Barnes and Nobles' Sparknotes blog. Marty executed the illustration and the concept for the piece, one of several "Back to School Outfit Fails" .

Pictured here is an original illustration Marty created for a pitch for Nickelodeon, "Team Monsterface and the Seven Layers of Space."

These illustrations were all drawn on bristol board by hand and digitally colored in Photoshop.

Spot Illustrations from Marty's, "Sock Puppet Madness", Cico Books

In a promotional postcard for Marty's book party celebrating his first book, "Sock Puppet Madness," you see inklings of a union of the ornate poster design style with that of Marty's idiosyncratic illustration style.

Co-opt Designs

Here Marty's illustration of "The Magician Detective" fuses with another design-style he loves to play in - that of aping and co-opting an iconic look and feel - often a nostalgic one.

Here Marty has taken the classic backs from GI Joe's 1980's action figures and fused his own creations, "The Lava Men," with them.

This piece was one of over a dozen created in the same style in support of Uncle Monsterface's album, "Rise of the Lava Men."

Another example of a co-opted icon, here Marty merged his original creation, Uncle Monsterface into the style of the original Super Mario Brothers Nintendo cartridge for an album dedicated to Nintendo.