Andrea Marks is a professor of design in the College of Business at Oregon State University where she teaches classes design management and design thinking. Prior to joining the College of Business, she was the coordinator of the Graphic Design Program and developed coursework in typography, contemporary issues in design, branding and design history. She is the author of the book Writing for Visual Thinkers and has curated several poster shows, including a 2015 exhibit at Oregon State University’s Center for Humanities, titled; Occupy: Posters by the People for the Digital Age. She has contributed to books and journals including, Icon Magazine, Becoming a Graphic Design and Digital Designer, Citizen Designer and Design and Culture. She is the recipient of numerous grants including an NEA Design Arts grant for her project Women of the Bauhaus.

Andrea was co-chair of the 2014 AIGA Design Education Conference New Ventures and has served on the AIGA Philadelphia Board of Directors. She received a BFA in graphic design from University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was awarded a Fulbright International Education Fellowship for her post-graduate work at the Basel School of Design in Basel, Switzerland.