Graphic Designer + illustrator, Nupur, lives in Bangalore, India, with her two sons, a pair of guinea pigs and a mountain bike. After her degree from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, Bombay, in 1992, she worked in advertising agencies J. Walter Thompson, Rediffusion DY&R, Saatchi & Saatchi. Did her MDes from IDC@IIT (Industrial Design Centre @ Indian Institute of Technology). Giving up the course half way through, she moved to Bangalore, had her first child in 1997 and embarked on a freelance career since. Nupur has handled clients from varied backgrounds, corporate clients to musicians, artists, restaurants etc. Currently she’s working on a family tree for a client whose family was instrumental in founding the Benaras Hindu University in India.

She loves to travel and has trekked around the Himalayas for the last five years, her last one being the Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal in May ‘09. A life spent traveling and living off her backpack is what she looks forward to.

Painter Tom Beil's family lived in North Hollywood, Oklahoma, West Germany, and Houston before settling down in Marshall, Texas when he was in 6th grade. After graduation from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 with a degree in architecture, Tom migrated west to California, and has lived and worked in Berkeley and Oakland ever since. His paintings have appeared in galleries in Oakland, Santa Rosa and Whidbey Island, Washington, as well as in Mother Jones magazine. He works for Goring and Straja Architects, winner in 2009 of a national "American Institutes of Architects Top Ten Green Projects Award" - http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/overview.cfm?ProjectID=1322. Tom lives with his wife Lillian Mitchell and daughter Maelen in Berkeley. YoWangdu Interview of Tom Beil

Phoebe Grigg is a poet and artist living in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood with her husband, two cats, and a turtle. She was influenced as a child by her father's love of music, painting and horses, and her mother's love of words. She spent a lot of time as a girl hiking in the Marin hills and bay waterfronts with her dog and younger sisters in tow, and majored in biology in college. Her quilts express a love of color, pattern and nature, and grow out of an organic assembly process of letting each color or texture build on the last. Phoebe's book of poems on Amazon: Bird Legs Angled Out.

Steve Siebert's brain gets a hearty workout balancing the competing sides of his personality; placid, contemplative and focussed; eruptive, obsessive and stray. An English major in school, he's been working as a graphic designer since the mid '90's, when the pretty colors and shapes finally became too beautiful to resist. His daily life is centered around his wife, Marya, their two dogs and figuring out ways to stray from the modern grid for longer and longer periods of time. A mountain stream peeling through the woods and clouds seems, to him, like a pretty reasonable goal. http://www.spaceinplaceof.com ~ http://www.maryaalford.com
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