Title Design
Lynda Kahn
Lynda Kahn is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and partner of bi-coastal TWINART, which she established with her identical twin sister Ellen in 1987. She is the creative force of TWINART LA, conceptualizing ideas, building brands and designing pop culture. With a focus on the visual media, her work is everywhere, including broadcast television, commercials, online, billboards and art galleries and museums. Kahn has won numerous awards, including a 2006 Daytime Emmy for the main title design and graphics package on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and BDA Gold Awards in 2005 for the title design on both Arrested Development and Full Frontal Fashion. Her additional credits include Fashion Rocks, Emily’s Reason’s Why Not, Twins, Dharma & Greg, Two Guys and a Girl, Sister-Sister and Beakman’s World. Kahn, who is a member of the Directors Guild of America, has produced and directed branded entertainment, television shows and network promos. On these projects she has directed a wide range of celebrities. Her long-form producing and directing endeavors have included Picture What Women Do, for Lifetime Television and Voices, for Elektra Entertainment.
Jon Teschner
Jon Teschner is the former creative director at Seismic Productions, where he created film marketing trailers and television spots. Previously, as executive vice president of Novocom, he helped re-brand television channels and systems around the world. He also worked at Paramount Pictures as executive director of its digital design studio, and as president of the Broadcast Designers Association, his creation of “Design Link,” an eight-part series of shows for in-house education of design departments helped grow membership. In 1980, Teschner helped launch CNN, and he has visited over 140 television stations and networks as a trainer, consultant and demo artist. He has taught main title design at UCLA, Otis School of Design and the International Film School in Cologne, Germany. In 2006, he was awarded a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design for his work on the Academy Awards show. Teschner is also a successful painter of large canvas oil paintings exhibited and collected nationwide.
