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Lynda Engstrom is a former swimsuit model turned Artist, Art Director and Web Designer who lives and works in Manhattan. She is a Pratt graduate whose artistic versatility has won her CBS Art Director Awards as well as exhibits of her Painting and Graphics work in The Aldrich Museum, Palm Beach Gallery, East Hampton, Santa Monica, and New York City. After the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York City, Lynda decided to do her part by joining the NYPD Auxiliary Police Force. She serves part-time with the 24th Precinct in Manhattan and has been honored with the NYPD "Auxiliary of the Year" Award. |
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Lynda has been a devoted summer resident of Fire Island for many years, and shows new oils and watercolors out there every summer.
Her fine art work is extraordinary and can be seen (and purchased) right on this website: Online Art Gallery.
As an Art Director, Ms. Engstrom has worked for CBS, Hearst, McCalls, Redbook, Seventeen Magazine, The New York Times and The Daily News. She was one of the earliest professional Designers on the Web, putting up her first site in 1994. Since then she has run her own Web Design business, creating custom sites for private clients in her distinctly unique and personal style. Check out a sampling here: The Short List As a Computer Professional, Lynda has served as Design Director and Webmistress of NYMUG's MacStreet Journal Online, chaired Web Developer and Web Graphics SIG's for NYMUG and the NYPC User Groups. She has taught HTML Seminars for the New York Mac Users Group and Web Design Seminars for Charles River Computers. Ms. Engstrom has been a featured guest on Manhattan's MNN-Cable TV program "ComputerLinks" and has been interviewed on "PC Planet", a WEVD New York radio show. She has been a guest speaker on Web Design at Columbia University and a panelist at VISCOMM Expo and Seybold Seminars at the Javits Center in New York. Lynda's original "Postcards!" website is one of the few free sites on the Web with no commercial ulterior motives. It has been cited as "refreshing" and "new and linkworthy" in the CyberTimes arts@large column of The New York Times. Her personal website "lynda@home" ranks in the top 2% of sites in "The Ring of Books" Literary Webring and the top 5% of "Interport's Top 100 Sites." The site has been featured in NetSurfer Digest and was a recent recipient of "The Eye Candy Award" for Graphic Excellence. Lynda is a member of The World Wide Web Artists Corsortium, MetroMac New York, The New York New Media Association, The Association of Internet Professionals and Webgrrls. To contact Ms. Engstrom for a Website Consultation use the email link below. Want to see more of her original visual style? Check out The Short List of Lynda's websites provided here for your browsing pleasure. Enjoy your visit and don't forget to help yourself to some Free Postcards on the way out.
lynda@nyc.rr.com |
