Margo’s formal study of communication arts began in Chicago, where, as a high school student, she’d spend weekends and summers driving her trusty ’86 Toyota Cressida down scenic Lake Shore Drive towards the School of the Art Institute.  A senior-year semester abroad at the Betzalel Academy of Art in Jersualem followed, where she studied sculpture and weighed her American art school options. Four years later, she earned her Bachelor’s degree from Parsons School of Design in New York.

At Parsons, Margo studied marketing, management, and finance in addition to fashion and communication design. In an advertising class, Margo fell in love with the industry’s combined strategic and aesthetic focuses. Her aptitude was recognized with a competitive grant from the Advertising Club of New York, awarded to a handful of students aspiring to someday join the field.

During college, she landed a summer internship at a major international advertising agency, putting her education to the test while working on large-scale accounts like AT&T and Citibank. Once back to her coursework, Margo threw herself into freelancing, successfully combining an independent, self-managed business with a high grade-point-average. Upon graduation, she began creating corporate identities for new business ventures, and helping already-successful companies such as Griffith Ives and Referral Technology strengthen their own, designing packaging, advertisements, and brochures.

A largely self-taught web designer, Margo came full circle to the fashion world as the web and graphic designer for Ron Herman, a chain of upscale clothing boutiques synonymous with old-school West Coast glamour. Hired to reinvent the company's e-commerce website, she has spent the last two years doing so, as well as designing and launching email, in-store, and direct-mail marketing campaigns. In her abundant spare time, she also provides freelance design services to a number of select clientele.

Margo’s work is driven by the belief that form should never sacrifice function, and that crystal-clear, continuous communication is pivotal to a satisfactory designer-client relationship. She finds that by staying true to these basic
principles, she is able to be time efficient and constantly creative. She uses classic color and typographic theories combined with a contemporary commercial perspective to consistently deliver fresh and on-point results. Her
experience working with programmers, project managers, printers and copywriters has instilled in Margo the belief that successfully connecting the dots of a team can determine a project’s outcome.

Margo currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two muses, Elan, 6, and Ariel, 4.


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