Libby Klitsch

BACKGROUND

The daughter of a commercial artist, Libby would often visit her dad’s studio inside a large company in home town, Dayton, Ohio. She was awestruck by the rows and rows of markers, huge sketch pads and cups stuffed with colored pencils and pens. She decided that she wanted to be an artist just like her dad.

EAST COAST / WEST COAST — DESIGN, STRATEGY, CREATIVE DIRECTION

After receiving a BFA degree, major in graphic design from Ohio University, Libby moved to Philadelphia to begin her career. She worked for a variety of companies as a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Illustrator and Production Artist/Designer before starting her own practice with clients including SmithKline Beecham, IBM and AT&T.

She moved to San Francisco with her husband and cat to head up the packaging graphics department at Clorox through an Oakland-based marketing agency. From there she went on to work for Apple, Gap, and a couple of start-ups, most notably, a renewable energy company where she was the Creative Director, overseeing a brand overhaul of a breakout division. (See the case study here.)

ILLUSTRATION FOCUS

Libby’s passion for drawing and cats has sparked a new side hustle, Cat City, Ink©, which uses no ink, but instead the Apple pencil on her iPad Pro. Their current expression is note cards and postcards. They are currently selling at several locations in San Francisco.

Thanks to the encouragement of her local AIGA chapter, she found another outlet for her illustrations — Visual Notetaking, aka Graphic Recording or Sketch Notes. These are real-time sketches to record a conference or event. For the analog version, Libby still uses markers and sketch pads.

So that’s Libby’s story. How can she help you visualize yours?

Thank you!

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