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Linda M Gebhardt
Linda, a Visual Communication expert ran a successful design and advertising firm in the city of Chicago for 15 years. Combining her branding and marketing skills with her award-winning photos, cop...view moreLinda, a Visual Communication expert ran a successful design and advertising firm in the city of Chicago for 15 years. Combining her branding and marketing skills with her award-winning photos, copywriting and design talents, her projects ranged from retail to banking to textbook publishing.
Earning her BFA from the University of Kansas, she is a Chicago native. Linda began her career in corporate communications for a design firm in the beatnik section of the city in the early 80s known today as the trendy River North gallery district. Best-described as a graphic designer from the beginning, she enjoyed a successful run delivering several high-profile multi-level collateral programs for Beatrice Foods including their corporate magazine. Furthering her career she moved in to consumer magazines art directing for Outside Magazine, Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune.
Linda excels in her ability to connect with clients in their process of presenting information keeping the message clear. Most tenured graphic designers also fell under the titles of art director/designer/creative director/photographer/copywriterthey are all essential in the end product. Linda understands that selling the product includes creating the product and this paradigm demands wearing many hats simultaneously. Currently focusing her talents on writing, believing the copy drives the idea and a messagethe message in Having It All or Not?: plans work, messages to ourselves are effective ways to the desired results. No plan, plan to fail.
Seeking a better life and more freedom, her wit and wisdom are motivators for those desiring a higher level of existence. She writes as if youre joining her along the adventures reminding readers that they are not so different than she isguilty pleasures and all. You sense her passion to share something in her writing making her relatable. A self-described information geek with a photographic memory including a mini-career in gardening she swears assisted in soothing the nerves from the frenzied pace of living and working in a big city.view less