Margot Grisar
Collaborative Creative Director
Margot Grisar is a Boston-based designer and creative director with over twenty years of experience in editorial design. As a visual story-teller, she enjoys collaborating with writers, artists and photographers. Most recently, she has overseen the visual expression of the university brand in the print and digital editions of the six university and school alumni magazines, as well as the news site and homepage at Tufts University. Each of these communications vehicles reaches internal and external audiences of strategic importance to Tufts. She successfully launched a print redesign of the entire family of Tufts magazines in 2014 and the Tufts Magazine web site redesign in 2016.
Awards include:
Tufts Magazine: Gold Medal for Magazines: Circulation 50,000 and Above, 2017 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District I Excellence Awards
Tufts Dental Medicine, Winter 2016 and Summer 2016 Issues: Silver Medal for Magazines: Circulation Under 50,000, 2017 CASE District I Excellence Awards
Tufts Magazine: Gold Medal for Best Overall Magazine, 2015 CASE District I Excellence Awards
Cummings Veterinary Medicine: Gold Medal for Design, Editorial Spread of "Sight Lines", 2015 National CASE Excellence Awards
Tufts Magazine Fall 2014 cover: Bronze Award, 2015 National CASE Excellence Awards.
Tufts Dental Medicine Gold Medal for Best Overall Magazine (circulation under 25,000), 2014 CASE District I Excellence Awards
Tufts Nutrition Winter 2014 and Summer 2014 issues: A Silver Medal for Best Overall Magazine (circulation under 25,000), A Silver Medal for Best Magazine Design (circulation under 25,000), 2014 CASE District I Excellence Awards Program. “Sharp, contemporary, stunning.”
Cummings Veterinary Medicine: Platinum Award for Educational Institution Magazine and Gold Award for Magazine Design, 2014 MarCom Awards competition sponsored by the National Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals.
Tufts Magazine Summer 2013 cover “Bobbi Gibbs’ hair”: Silver Medal, 2014 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Veterinary Medicine Winter 2013: Silver Medal for Design, Editorial Spread of “Old Gray Mare” 2014 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Magazine Winter 2013: Silver Medal for Editorial Illustration in “The Night Ferry” by Brian Stauffer, 2014 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Now: Silver Medal for Online Internal Audience Periodicals, 2013 National CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Magazine: Silver Medal for General Interest College Magazines, Circulation Over 75,000, 2013 National CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Veterinary Medicine: Silver Medal for Special Constituency Magazines, 2013 National CASE Circle of Excellence Awards
Tufts Magazine Winter 2012 cover: Silver Medal, 2013 National CASE Circle of Excellence Awards
Tufts Magazine Winter 2013 cover: Excellence Award in Magazine Cover Design, 2013 University & College Design Association (UCDA) Design Competition
Tufts Magazine Fall 2012 cover: Excellence Award in Magazine Cover Design, 2013 University & College Design Association (UCDA) Design Competition
Tufts Magazine Fall 2012: Excellence Award in Magazine Editorial Spread “LA Makeover”, 2013 UCDA Design Competition
Tufts Dental Medicine Fall 2012 cover: Excellence Award in Magazine Cover Design, 2013 UCDA Design Competition
Tufts Veterinary Medicine Winter 2013: Excellence Award in Magazine Editorial Spread “The Old Gray Mare”, 2013 UCDA Design Competition
Tufts Nutrition: Summer 2012 cover illustration by James O’Brien: Selected for 3x3's ProShow No.10 Illustration Annual.
Tufts Magazine: Silver Excel Award for Design Excellence, 2012 Association Media & Publishing Awards.
Tufts Magazine: Gold Medal, Best Overall Magazine, circulation above 25,000, 2012 CASE District I Excellence Awards.
Tufts Dental Medicine: Bronze Medal, Best Overall Magazine circulation under 25,000, 2012 CASE District I Excellence Awards.
Tufts Veterinary Medicine: Platinum Awards for Design and Educational Institution Magazine, 2012 International MarCom Awards contest, sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals.
Tufts Dental Medicine Spring 2011 "Treat the Child, Treat the Parent" and Fall 2011 "Inside Job" 2012 Platinum Pencil, from the International College of Dentists, USA Section.
Tufts Medicine Silver Medal for Special Constituency Magazines, 2012 National CASE Circle of Excellence Awards.
Tufts Medicine Fall 2011 “Cracked at the Top”: Excellence Award for Magazine Editorial Spread, 2012 UCDA Design Competition
Tufts Veterinary Medicine Spring 2012 “Life Lines”: Excellence Award for Magazine Editorial Spread, 2012 UCDA Design Competition
Tufts Magazine: Gold Medal, for Overall Excellence and Best Design, 2011 CASE District I Communications Awards program.