Marcelle Toor, Creative Director and Principal of Marcelle Toor Designs is a graphic designer, painter, author and photographer with an MFA in Communication Design from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts.

Toor, one of the first designers in this country to embrace the new technology, began to use the Macintosh in 1985. In 1987, in order to learn more about the technology, she coordinated a national conference for Syracuse University, “Computers and the Graphic Designer.”

Toor's varied design portfolio includes books, book jackets, ads, brochures, posters, corporate identities, annual reports, packages and Web sites. She is the author of two books published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, now John Wiley & Sons, Graphic Design on the Desktop: A guide for the non-designer, 2nd edition (1998), and The Desktop Designer's Illustration Handbook (1996).

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who of American Women, and Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century, Toor has given talks and conducted workshops on graphic design at national conferences of such organizations as FOLIO (the Congress of Magazine Publishers), the International Business Management Council, Women in Communication, MacWorld, the Speech Communication Association, the Popular Culture Society, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Parson's School of Design.