Marc Katzschner

Marc Katzschner is an IAC Award Winning Creative Director and co-founder of the Shotwell Company, a Web design and development agency based in San Francisco, CA. He has been a User Experience and Interface designer in interactive media since 1995. He has created countless site and application “front ends” for clients in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds. His credo is to advocate for the user, because, "everything else follows from that." His fluency in negotiating between client need, visual aesthetic, and technical requirements make him the consummate Web professional and focal point for all participants in the projects he leads.

Prior to joining Tyler Martin to found the Shotwell Company, Marc built his own Web consultancy with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco (Some Pulp, LLC) and with clients in entertainment, social services, advocacy, and fashion. He served as Director of Interactive Communications for the Cure Autism Now Foundation (now Autism Speaks); Creative Director for Neighborplace (VC funded Web community); Director of New Media for Generation IX Technologies, and marketing/communications researcher for large corporate clients as well as for the California State Government.

Marc studied mass communications and sociology at UC Berkeley. He helped devise early Web-based media research tools at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he also lectured undergraduates in communication technology and art history.

Marc is a native German and English speaker. He is from Berlin, where he started out as a graphic design apprentice at the Flaskamp advertising agency. His family is in South Africa, the United States, and Germany, but he now considers both Venice Beach and the San Francisco Bay Area home (he'll make up his mind some day). He lives in Oakland with his wife, June, his two fabulous daughters, his two cats, and several electric guitars.