NOEL MARTIN studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he later became an instructor.  He is self-taught in typography and design which are now his main activities.

Designer for the Cincinnati Art Museum since 1947, Martin has been a freelance graphic designer and art director.  His clients have included Champion Papers, Federated Department Stores, Xomox Corporation, Dreyfus Corporation, New Republic, Hebrew Union College, and many other industrial, educational, and cultural organizations.  He has taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and was adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati, and he has had major one-man exhibitions in the United States and Canada.

His work was included in the exhibition, "Four American Designers," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1953, and in a one-man exhibition at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1958.  Foreign exhibitions have included those of the U.S. Information Agency in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S.S.R., and also at the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz; Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris; and the Grafiska Institute, Stockholm. Martin's work is represented in public collections in New York, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, and Amsterdam. 

He has lectured at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, Aspen Design Conference, and schools and organizations throughout the country. Among his awards are the Art Directors Medal, Philadelphia, 1957, and the Sachs Award, Cincinnati, 1973. 

Noel continues consulting on graphic design projects. His art recently appeared at the Contemporary Arts Center and at the Carl Solway Gallery.

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