“No matter where you go, there you are!” —Buckaroo Banzai

Lynda Weinman was born in 1955 in Hollywood, California. She graduated from Evergreen State College with a BA in Humanities in 1976. However, she ended up pursuing a career into retail, and at the age of 25, she was already owner of two stores. A few years later, Lynda makes a dramatic career change, by stepping into a new field of animation and special effects. And only in 1982, does she use her first computer, and two years later, buys her own Macintosh. “I am self-taught, but love computers and I love design. Most people are shocked to hear that I’m self-taught, and some critics even ding me for it,” [1] states Lynda.

Lynda Weinman is best known as the founder of lynda.com. A site dedicated to helping media designers and communicators understand how to use professional tools and design to enhance visual communication through web, print, and motion graphics. And she is also co-founder of one of the hottest international Flash-film-festivals, called Flashforward. An event held as an online competition and live awards ceremony showcasing and celebrating the best work on the Web in 13 categories.

She has worked professionally in design and animation for the past 22 years, and has been teaching digital design for the past 12 years. She has taught at Art Center College of Design, San Francisco Multimedia Studies, American Film Institute, UCLA, and at numerous conferences and workshops throughout the world, before forming her own workshops in Ojai, California. In addition, Lynda is the best-selling author of a series of books on web design, and writes for numerous magazines including MacWorld, How, Adobe, Step-by-Step Graphics, Web Techniques, Dynamic Graphics, Animation, Full Motion, New Media and Diem. Above all, Lynda loves to teach. She has conducted private classes for many corporations, including MSNBC, Capital Group, CBS, NBC, Genentech, and Apple Computers.