Ed Letven has had an extremely varied and successful professional career as an artist, and a businessman. He was a corporate graphic designer, photographer and illustrator working first as an art director for various Philadelphia agencies and then as a freelance creative director. His principal expertise in the advertising business was corpaorate image and logo design.

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Mr. Letven attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia on full scholarship and graduated with a degree in Advertising design. He founded Letven Design, which grew to become LDB Marketing. As CEO and Creative Officer he built the firm into a successful 60 person marketing organization. During his years as Creative Director, he remained an active painter of landscapes and seascapes.

In 1997, Mr. Letven sold his interest in the agency in order to devote more time to his lifetime love of watercolor and stoneware ceramics. Though he has worked in watercolors and multimedia for most of his lifetime, he began to publicly exhibit his work in galleries and shows in 2001. Privately though, his watercolors, ceramics and steel sculptures are in many private collections. These include Temple University, Coors Breweries Inc. and the Sunoco Corporate Collection.