Donald A. Marsden (August 28, 1942 – August 20, 2020) –  Majoring in English literature at Princeton University, he went on to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University before teaching English at Gettysburg College and Adelphi University.

Mr. Marsden joined Ulano in 1972 and received technical training in screenprinting at Ulano laboratories in New York and Zürich. Since then, he has been variously involved in technical writing, training, and service; package design; product development and management; advertising and promotional writing; sales and marketing; forecasting, market analysis, and strategic planning. He has also studied international finance and banking, marketing, and strategic planning at New York and Columbia Universities. He is now Director of International Commercial Services and a member of Ulano’s Executive Committee. Marsden visited screenprinters and conducted seminars on every continent except Antarctica, and in 1990 was invited to address one of China’s first international symposiums on screenprinting technology.

His articles on screen printing were published in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, South and East Asia, and Australasia. His paper, “Acutance Measurement,” written for SGIA’s Technical Guidebook, established the first method for measuring the acutance of printed images—in all printing processes, not only screenprinting.

Marsden served on the Educational and Vocational Development Committee of the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), as a director of the Society of Glass and Ceramic Decorators (SGCD), and as an instructor at Screen Printing Technical Foundation (SPTF) workshops. In 1992, he was presented with the Sundeen Award of the International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA) in recognition of “highly significant contributions to graphic arts education of an extended period of time.”

Mr. Marsden maintains a strong avocation in music as an accompanist, choral director, and organist (he holds the Colleague certificate of the American Guild of Organists (CAGO)). He recently completed a four-year term on the Executive Committee of the Princeton University Alumni Council (ACEC) and was inducted into the John Maclean Society, an association of former University trustees and ACEC members. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Princeton Triangle Club Graduate Board of Trustees.

Marsden is a 1980 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).

Don Marsden passed away on August 20, 2020