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I know Miriam Martinic only via the work she has done for a friend of mine and for my company, plus maybe a half-dozen short e-mails. Despite this limited sample set, I have no problem rating Miriam's work: she's a 5-Star All-Star without question. In fact, given a mere 5-star rating system, I'd have to say that Miriam qualifies for at least 6 or 7 stars. Yes, she's that good. Miriam produces the type of work that makes the untalented (like myself) think: "Wow, how does she do that?" and "Man, I sure wish I could something even half as good." It would be easy to drain a thesaurus of all its superlatives trying to describe how exquisite Miriam's work is, but instead I will simply say this: "Thank you, Miriam, for what you did for "Tinyman for President": your book cover made this book irresistible and compelling, and what more could a publisher ask for? Thanks, again."

Dirk Stratton
Publisher at I-Beam Books
12 Sep 2021

William Gillespie by Miriam Martincic

I am very privileged to have worked with Miriam wearing the following hats: book designer, cover designer, and graphic designer of banners, t-shirts, magazines, and other forms of marketing collateral. And above all, I have worked with her as illustrator. (Check out our book The Wreck of the Good Ship Lollipop!) And I would and probably will hire her again, this time to design a record cover, and I wouldn't really consider hiring anybody else until Miriam becomes too popular and busy.

Miriam is a double-barreled designer. Which is to say that not only does she get the visual design done with smoking aplomb, but, unlike other designers I have worked with, she has crossed the corpus callosum and united the aesthetic with the analytic, the right and left hemispheres. Consider that when doing an impeccable layout for an world-class Engineering department's alumni magazine—reading matter that is admittedly not to everybody's tastes— she read the articles, all of them, digested them, and created a layout that unified the suite of research stories but provided each with a complementary illustration (and all the researchers were delighted with their illos, which is a nearly impossible feat). I am embarrassed to admit that she even found typos in work that had been sent out for proofreading. I am embarrassed for the former proofreader.

Miriam is a fixer, a problem solver, the bigger the better. I wouldn't ask her to draw a kitten, but rather an image to represent the plight of an adoptable kitten on death row in an under-funded Humane Society, while kitten mills crush their breeders to produce neurotic and genetically compromised purebreds. For example. She could represent all that in an illustration tight as a drum.

In fact, if you asked her to draw a kitten, she might well do research and bring to bear the entire social context of kitten, in an illustration tight as a drum, so I recommend having a good conversation about the project first.

Miriam's ideas feed on context, meaning, audience, purpose, and social issues, as much as they feed on her seemingly limitless ability to produce touching, beautiful, and whimsical illustrations and stories.

There is in fact much about her to admire, envy, and love. But you don't need to know all of that, just hire her and see what happens.