Marina Tito
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Marina Tito
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
BRANDING AND INTERIOR DESIGNER
Marina Tito is a co-founder and the President of Go Gnomo. A disruptive creator with over three decades of experience in designing and transforming consumer brands, Marina co-founded Renaissance City, ready to challenge the status quo, with out-of-the box, strategic thinking.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Marina entered the arts at age six, oil painting at the Atelier Paul Klee, and wining a gold medal by age nine, and two consecutive silver medals, at the Shankar’s International Children’s Competition, held yearly in India. Marina continued her oil painting training under other masters in Buenos Aires, before moving to New Jersey, with her mom and brother, at age fourteen.
Taking every art class in High School and summer classes at FIT, where she was asked to attend, Marina built a portfolio that won her both her High School and the largest scholarship from School Of Visual Arts, NYC; plus her first job at Siboney Advertising in NYC, working for accounts such as Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsi and Texaco.
Marina spent the following year in Buenos Aires, designing and successfully launching a club for 2,000 people, at age 18. Returning to NY, Marina worked at Graphic Solutions for the following couple of years, focusing on design for Sony, Minolta, and Volvo. She also freelanced for publishing companies, such as Random House and Bertelsmann, before traveling to Vienna, Austria, where she designed for Procter & Gamble, Muller Milch and the music industry.
Returning to NYC, Marina took on an art director position with Mezzina/Brown Advertising, finally getting the R.J. Reynolds Camel brand some Addys recognition for design, with her matchbook and outdoor graphic ad campaign, and helping the company win new clients, such as Beefeater Gin and others. In 1999, Marina moved to Florida and launched the MDG Advertising group as Creative Director, working for several accounts, including Mondavi Wines, Pulte Homes and The Breakers Hotel, for whom she designed the first off-premises restaurant, Echo, still open today, also Fathom in Palm Beach Gardens, and consulted on several other locations and on-premises restaurants, including their 5-star Le Scalle.
Starting the Marina Tito Group in 2002, Marina launched the Invicta Watch brand, taking them from a small replica manufacturer to one of the largest watch brands in America. First getting the brand into Tourneau stores, and beginning the growth spurt of an industry giant. Over their 13-year journey, she acted as Invicta’s creative director, designing over 100 collections, multiple new brands, several product lines, their new headquarters, stores, trade show exhibitions, and aligning all national and international branding efforts into a 360 marketing strategy.
In 2013, Marina created the Good Puppy brand in order to write, illustrate and publish eight children’s picture books focused on improving mental health and diversity issues. It was during this time that she discovered the low-rates of behavioral improvement from therapy in children of low-income families. Finding out that the therapists working with these families were overworked, underpaid, and lacked a system, or the tools required to make a difference, Marina set out to find a solution.
Together with her partner, designer and developer Lorenzo Di Alessandro, and under the guidance of her brother, licensed family therapist Gabriel Tito, Marina funded and dedicated the following five years to the creation and testing of the Good Puppy Children’s Behavioral & Emotional System. In order to fulfill their vision, and get these tools in the hands of therapists and mental health institutions working with low-income families, and with the help of Satyakanth Maddu, they created Good Puppy Go, a 501(c)(3) charity that would not only allow for these tools to reach their beneficiaries, but it would make them tax deductible and accessible to everyone.
During 2021, Marina stepped into Web3, created several NFT projects, and gamifications educating people on Web3, the blockchain, and the metaverse. An avid builder, Marina brought her passion for concept and interior design to the Voxels Metaverse. She created Renaissance City, Mythogenesis, The Good Puppy Go Headquarters, and challenged the status quo by designing free space buildouts that were shared with hundreds of artists, welcoming them into Web3 with their own gallery spaces and direct access to the public.
An accomplished innovator and creator, Marina can now be found on the board of Good Puppy Go, and at Renaissance City, a haven for dedicated and extremely talented free-thinkers who love to push the envelope in the name of progress.
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