Oct. 12, 2006

New faces
Todd Roeth
Assistant Professor of Art
By: Leanne McCullough
lem001@marietta.edu
On the Record:
The Marcolian welcomes Mr. Todd Roeth, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, to Marietta College.

Roeth graduated from Ohio University in 2000 with a degree in Visual Communication. From there he went on to Denver, where he worked as a graphic designer.

While in Denver, he started researching graduate schools. His search brought him back to OU, where he taught and obtained his Masters in Multimedia Design in 2004.

Roeth's career is filled with other experience. He lived in Manhattan at Times Square and worked for MTV Networks as part of their In House Graphic Design Team.

He also taught at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. There he taught general graphic design and art classes and decided that he wanted to teach core, central classes. That desire lead him back to Marietta College.

Off the Record:
Roeth choose graphic design as his career path, saying “I like it because I like the process of problem solving. Every project is different; every project makes me a little smarter.”

Roeth's favorite part of graphic design is the process, or the “act of making it” as opposed to the final product. For him, “the process is the product.”

While at MTV, he was only one part of the entire process, and compared his job to “working in a factory.” Teaching allows him to be involved in every aspect of the process, not just one part.

In the future, Todd hopes to be “relaxed” and continue his teaching career. He emphasizes that teaching helps him learn, and he learns through discussions with his students.

Roeth's current favorite quotation is “Everything is an experiment” by Tibor Kalman. He fully believes that everything can be improved, and that one can learn from every experience.