Miriam Martincic is an award-winning illustrator whose career spans multiple industries, disciplines, and media. Her digital illustration is informed by her tactile work as a fine artist, client work as a graphic designer, and “people work” as an educator. She has a BFA in fine arts from Columbus College of Art & Design and an MFA in sculpture from Ohio University. Miriam is an Assistant Teaching Professor of graphic design at Iowa State University. Select clients include Digital HKS at the Harvard Kennedy School, The National Soybean Research Laboratory (NSRL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Training Center for Wheelchair Track at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, Spineless Books, and PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER.

Awards + recognition

2021

• 3×3 International Illustration Annual #18
  Fingers Crossed, merit award
  Having It All, merit award
  Parallel Structures, merit award
  Making It Easier, honorable mention
  Happy Healthy Holidays, honorable mention
  Long Seasons, honorable mention

• 63rd ADAI Design Exhibition (Art Directors of Iowa)
  Happy Healthy Holidays, Judges Choice
  Tinyman for President, Best of Category (book design)
  Fingers Crossed, excellence award
  Having It All, excellence award
  Long Seasons I, Best of Category (unpublished)
  Long Seasons II, excellence award

• Communication Arts Illustration Annual 62
  Making It Easier, shortlist
  Having It All, shortlist

2020

• Society of Illustrators NY #63
  Having It All, gold medal (uncommissioned)
  Making It Easier, selected
  Til We Meet Again, selected

• 3×3 International Illustration Annual #17
  The Wreck of the Good Ship Lollipop, merit award
  Howl’s Moving Castle, merit award
  Three Poems, merit award
  Author/Illustrator Portraits, merit award

• Communication Arts Illustration Annual 61
  Swimmer and Runner at Rest, shortlist
  Author/Illustrator Portraits, shortlist

2019

• Society of Illustrators NY #62
  Author and Illustrator Portraits, selected

• American Illustration 39
  What the Doctor Ordered, online collection