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ABOUT US

For the past 20 years, we've combined our diverse experiences in branding, strategic marketing, storytelling and design that create powerful solutions for our clients.

Melleta Marx

MELLETA MARX

PARTNER

Melleta brings a diverse background in branding, design and advertising. Working in advertising since 1997, she was a Sr. Art Director at Grey Advertising working on major accounts such as AAA, AT&T, Bank of America and Sparkletts. She also worked at branding firm Vigon Ellis creating work for ESPN, Disney and Hallmark Channel as well as Evenson Design, Engle + Murphy, and Chiat Day in Los Angeles. More recently, she lead the in-house design department at global life science company, MilliporeSigma. She grew up in Boston, has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied in Rome at Tyler School of Art.

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Joshua Fertik

JOSHUA FERTIK

PARTNER

Josh Fertik brings a passion for storytelling combined with a strategic business and marketing mind to everything he does. A native to New York City he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career – interning at Morgan Freeman’s Revelations, reading screenplays for Centropolis Entertainment and Electric Entertainment and developing story at Rhythm & Hues Studios where he eventually went on to work as a VFX artist on Garfield, Cat in the Hat and Scooby Doo. Prior to that, he was a talent recruiter for marketing and creative service agency Aquent. He has a BFA in graphic design and photography with a concentration in film from the University of Connecticut.

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We are the core team of Marx Fertik and we work with partners specializing in everything from web development to technical writers where and when needed so we can expand to meet the needs of a project. 

WHY US

WE START WITH THE BRAND
The brand is at the essence of who you are so understanding your business proposition, personality and position in the marketplace is key in communicating to your audiences with a clear and consistent voice.
WE'RE LEFT & RIGHT BRAINED
We bring many years of business and marketing experience to the table so we can think strategically and creatively at the same time making sure your results are always on target.
WE HAVE DIVERSE EXPERIENCES
We've been working with clients from biotech and pharma to green tech and technology for over 20 years doing projects from identity and branding to advertising, animation and video. We're a small agency that can do it all.
WE'RE SMALL BY DESIGN
By keeping small, we are involved in every step throughout the entire process. You deal directly with the creatives cutting out the bureaucracy and confusion of having a middle man.
WE'RE NO BS
Unlike big agencies that care more about winning awards and expensing fancy lunches, our focus is on doing amazing work for you that gets results. And if we win some awards along the way, that's great!
B2B ≠ BORING
We work with a lot of B2B clients and, although we understand that they have audiences that may require a more analytical approach, we also recognize they are people too and respond to hard hitting creative that appeals to their emotional side as well.
We've had the privilege of working with a diverse roster of clients including:

CLIENTS

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Akili

Alivio Therapeutics

Arsenal Medical

Avantor Sciences

Bat Bio

Be Biopharma

BVI Medical

Carbon Biosciences

Commense

DEM Biosciences

E1 Therapeutics

Endra Life Sciences

Enlight Biosciences

Entrega

Follica

Fortis Life Science

Gelesis

Glyph Biosciences

IOP Ophthalmics

Karuna Pharmaceuticals

Libra Biosciences

Mandara Sciences

Merck KGaA

MilliporeSigma

PureTech Health

Sartorius

SCAN Healthcare

Setpoint Medical

Solace Pharmaceuticals

Sonde Health

Tal Medical

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals

Tome Biosciences

Vedanta Biosciences

Vor BioPharma

Whole Health

CONSUMER

AAA

AT&T

Bally's Hotels

Bank of America

Booz Allen Open

Carole King

City National Bank

Crave Entertainment

Delphi

DirectTV

Disney Concert Hall

ESPN

Gaiam Living Arts

Hallmark

Lexus

New Balance

Pasadena Rose Bowl

Phylrich

Red Cross

Sparkletts

Washington Mutual Bank

EDUCATION

Loyola Marymount University

U. of Wisconsin

UCLA

USC

U. of San Diego

Tufts University

Transparent Language

Vistamar School

TECHNOLOGY & FINANCIAL

24M

2430 Group

B3

Boston Financial

ConsultEcon

Covergence

Digital Lumens

Elemental Machines

GeoTrust

Knode

Nanoterra

Nexthink

nTAG

Peerin

Photys

Placebase

Planon

Smartling

QM Corner

ValueDynamx

XebiaLabs

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