about

Miriam Martincic is an award-winning illustrator whose career spans multiple industries—fine art, graphic design, education, and illustration. She creates emotionally-resonant, impeccably-designed editorial illustration, patterns, and lettering. Clients include Harper’s, Scientific American, and The New York Times.

Miriam currently teaches graphic design at Iowa State and works from her studio in Ames, Iowa under careful dachshund supervision. She studied at Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio University, and Visual Arts Passage. Turn the page for more…

awards + recognition

2023

• Illustration West 61 (SILA)
  Philanthropy, honorable mention
  Many Large Investors, selected
  Add Safety, selected
  Misunderstand, selected
  Underestimate, selected
  Vaccines Break the Pattern of Transmission, selected
  Big Bird, selected
  Tip Anxiety, selected
  Casa di Langa, selected
  Parma Calcio, selected
  Red Light. Black Room., selected

2022

• Society of Illustrators NY #65
  Krause Group Annual Report: Business Illustrations, jury selection
  Krause Group Annual Report: Values & Futures, jury selection
  Red Light. Black Room., jury selection
  Routine Maintenance, jury selection
  The Psychology of Retirement Income, jury selection

• Global Healthcare Illustration Awards
  Lane One, shortlist

• World Illustration Awards 2022
  Box, shortlist
  Pool, shortlist

• 3x3 International Illustration Annual #19
  Box, merit award
  Balance, merit award
  Routine Maintenance, merit award

• 64th ADAI Design Exhibition (Art Directors of Iowa)
  Balance, Best of Category (illustration)
  Building Letters, Best of Category (miscellaneous)
  The Monk, excellence award
  The Worker, excellence award
  The Artist, excellence award
  Time Border, excellence award
  Good Vs. Bad, excellence award
  Pool, excellence award

• American Illustration 41
  Immunity Revealed, selected for book
  Advances in Cancer Treatment, selected for book
  Vaccines Break the Pattern of Transmission, selected for book

• Applied Arts 2022 Photography & Illustration Awards
  Box, winner (cause-related)

• Communication Arts Illustration Annual 63
  Balance, award of excellence
  Good Vs. Bad, shortlist
  Box, shortlist
  Winter Solstice, shortlist
  Everyday Gifts, shortlist

• Illustration West 60 (SILA)
  Box, gold medal (uncommissioned)
  Pool Party, silver award (gallery)
  Fingers Crossed, selected
  Parallel Structures, selected
  Puss in Boots, selected
  Lane One, selected

2021

• Society of Illustrators NY #64
  Box, gold medal (uncommissioned)
  Good Grief, selected
  Good Vs Bad, selected

• 3x3 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

• 3x3 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