TMG, the visual zealot, is an award-winning graphic design Buffalo luminary

The Martin Group Story: From small business to big name in less than a decade
By Marcus Scott
Buffalo Rising Online

Some say the Nickel City is The City of No Illusions, or at least they did, and for a good reason. When local artist Michael Morgulis coined Buffalo, New York, The City of No Illusions circa 1977, he produced the one-of-a-kind transcendental phrase on a t-shirt and Buffalo residents adapted the slogan to their personae. With its revolutionary roots as a pioneering industrial city, the art of the city is a stand-alone entity in itself where artistes and the literati make their hajj on an annual basis, becoming inspired by the city’s visual art underground. New York State’s Queen City is a living vessel for art and the like, and with the virtual generation upon us, art in Buffalo is advancing with the quicken of sound, adapting to the Computer Age with a high demand for graphic design.
Pioneering some of the best graphic designs in advertisement today, The Martin Group (TMG), located in downtown Buffalo, has been in the ether of the advertising world since the advent of the 21st century. Founded in 2001 by TMG president and founder Tod Martin, the company has quickly become one of New York’s established, innovative brand and tactical marketing firms. The Martin Group has recently learned that various award-winning publications have highlighted numerous of the company’s projects’ designs from across the globe—providing eruditeness that the company is bound for great accolades.
Five singular projects fashioned by TMG have been selected by worldwide design publications recently. After winning an International Design Award from graphic design publication bible How Magazine, as well as its April 2009 “Design Annual” for a packaging campaign created for the New York-based start-up Face Time Cosmetics company—created by Queen City consumerist Linsey Snyder—the brand is a becoming a force to reckoned with. Merely by using its resources, and with the retention of Brand Fuel Process—which combines location, modernism and informative inquiry—the firm has embellished the quality of local, national and international agencies. This is evident by the national ADDY award by the American Advertising Federation that the firm won recently. LogoLounge, The new Master Library series, recently selected four logos by the firm, underlining TMG’s consummate logo design efforts that will feature logos that utilize crests and initials for successful brand names. Brands Account One, Integrity Office, Sonoma Grille and X Paint are among the chosen that will be featured in LogoLounge’s inaugural edition.
Now with extensive knowledge in several occupational media outlets such as industrial/manufacturing and retail sports marketing, national retail promotion and product packaging, TMG has supervised an absolute branding initiative that includes christening the company and administering its product lines. It’s only a matter of time until TMG a major multiplex conglomerate power, and perhaps they have Buffalo, the little of no illusions, to think for that—as they become masters of illusions.

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