Marlene is a graphic designer and fine artist who started her career designing promotional print graphics for the music industry, then moved into creating visuals for live television. After a briefly producing concepts and graphics for online web companies, she returned to print design, the focus of her current work.  

In the early 1980s, under the name Marlene Weisman Studio, Marlene’s music industry clients included Stiff Records, Second Vision (music PR), and SONY/CBS Records and indie bands. Other clients included jazz concert promoters New Audiences and the seminal NYC music venue The Bottom Line, which plastered many of her concert posters all over the city.  

She also specialized in promo graphics for the burgeoning NYC downtown club scene. Her iconic weekly ads for The Peppermint Lounge appeared in the Village Voice, as did her hand-drawn comic-strip-like ads for the Greenwich Village shop, FLIP NYC.

After taking classes in TV graphics at SVA, Marlene landed an in-house job in the NBC art department in 1988, creating on-air graphics for 7 years for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and subsequently, Late Night with Conan O’Brien. While there, she created graphics for many famous (and not-so-famous) sketches: Wayne’s World, Toonces, Simon, Sprockets, and ad parodies such as Crystal Gravy, Colon Blow, and Schmitts Gay. The art department won a production design Emmy Award in 1992.

During that period, she also freelanced for The Howard Stern Show (pilot), HBO Downtown Productions/Comedy Central’s Night After Night with Allan Havey, and Women Aloud.

After network TV, she designed web graphics for sites such as iGuide & Time Warner’s Pathfinder in the late 90s.

Following a break to embark on a new kind of creative project— involving a husband & producing a son—Marlene returned to print graphics for an eclectic list of clients. Her interest in film history and knowledge of the silent film era led her to a niche specialty: designing for film-related projects such as those on shown on her website.

She also maintains an active art studio practice, producing drawings, collages, assemblage art, and her Super Deep 3D series from her studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn NY. This work may be seen at: marleneweisman.com.