Home • EditorialFebruary 5th, 2012
 Vivien Liem • Contributor

Vivien Liem a public health scientist by title but art and design enthusiast at heart. For the past 1.5 years, life has been seen as a ‘pack up and leave’ adventure. Currently living in Malmö, Sweden and not knowing where her next ‘home’ will be, Vivien has experienced and embraced the different foods, fashion, art and most importantly culture of all corners of Europe and hoping to explore and conquer this place we call ‘Earth.’
http://justhopskipandjump.blogspot.com/

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Inaya is a Chicago-based art enthusiast who recently migrated from New York City. A beatnik at heart, she often finds herself indulging in endless gallery hopping, philosophical conversations, gastronomical missions and getting lost filming somewhere in the urban metropolis. Aside from her beloved “Breukelen” Bowery Lane Bicycle she cherished for years, her weakness in life remains to be rare and collector’s edition books and publications, specifically in art and design.
http://offbeatsessions.blogspot.com

Muqliza Imroni • Contributor

Muqliza Imroni is the designer behind Sou Brette, she has been working independently and collectively in a multitude of media: fashion, illustration, textile, retail, to name a few. Despite this collection of interests, her distinctively bizarre, eclectic, and self-indulgent touches have been consistently evident in all her works and her jewelry line Sou Brette.
http://www.soubrettejewellery.blogspot.com

mariati Mariati Galatio / Mar Galo • Contributor

Show promoter based in NYC. Part-time dancer and full-time bassist for Jirapah. Wishes for a greener planet and a pitbull. Enjoy yourself!
http://www.jirapah.com

markypic Mark Soetantyo • Contributor

Mark Soetantyo or also known as Marky is a freelance designer based in Sydney, Australia. His works has been published and featured both on local and international publications. Next to his design job, he put interest in music, fashion, spatial design, collecting books and other well-designed objects. As an entrepreneur wannabe, he always tries to find new projects so he can push his creative mind and ideas further.
www.marksoetantyo.com

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Nadia Pramudita • Contributor

I/don’t want to grow up/see things inside out/am a little bit persnickety/do things that I like/dislike

lies/am geometric/maybe not romantic
http://bagelandtea.blogspot.com

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 Elizabeth Raisa Tanawi • Contributor

Elizabeth Raisa Tanawi is excited to get a taste soon of being a part of the frivolous fashion industry full-throttle in Singapore. She has picked up a pen and typed on a typewriter with tip-ex as the aid since her youthful days. Currently enrolled in her diploma year in LASALLE taking fashion communication,she’s looking for prospective base for further developments. Other than that, her full-time job would be always a Korean fan girl, Japanese otaku and a lomo freak.
http://whutderrfakqizvat.blogspot.com

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 Primo Rizky • Contributor

Primo is a brand-man; brand consultant in an international branding consultancy. He is also a freelance writer and founder/head of branding team in a start-up independent fashion label named Kini. His inspiration varies from Wes Anderson to Scott Sternberg and from Vietnamese propaganda posters to Scandinavian minimalist design.
http://flavors.me/primorizky

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Adithya Pratama • Contributor

Adithya Pratama. A native Jakartan since January 18th 1990 but a true Sydneysider after spending his years living downunder. A Pastry Chef under trainings from Le Cordon Bleu, Australia and At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy Singapore with passion towards desserts, food, wine and writing. Currently residing in Singapore and hoping soon to introduce ‘Passion’ into Jakarta’s Culinary World.
http://www.chefadith.tumblr.com

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 Jez Owen • Contributor

Jez is a UK-based Art Director and an enthusiast for all things creative. He likes to keep his cultural interests as wide as possible but underpinning this is always his passion for Sci-Fi and ’70s incidental music. Jez attempts to balance being a Creative Director with spending as much time as possible fine tuning his BMX and snowboarding skills. Of course, being of a certain age this all is getting harder and harder so keeping fit is now also in the mix. He is proud to be a new addition to the Whiteboard team and hopes that the readers enjoy his musings as much as he does writing them.
http://www.splendid-industrial.co.uk

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 Neneng Retna • Contributor

Neneng Retna Graduated from School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia in 2010. Neneng currently acts as a journalist in a region newspaper. Her interests pervades journalism and cooking home-made foods.

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 Ridzki Noviansyah • Contributor

Ridzki Noviansyah is freelance photographer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was during his university year that he got the serious passion for photography, due to the fear that he will lose the balance between his right and left brain. To him the camera is just a medium to record and at the same time to voice out his thoughts, therefore he’s not afraid to push himself and his camera to the limit.

http://trugiaz.carbonmade.com

Nicoprofile Nico Deralima Novito • Contributor

Nico Novito is currently pursuing his bachelor degree in International Relations from the University of Indonesia. Having to spend sleepless nights pondering over global issues that run the gamut from conflict resolution to human rights, he finds refuge in the spellbinding realms of fashion, fiction, and any kind of print media. A self-described pedantic, he usually finds himself perusing through stacks of magazines, obsessing over every typo and grammatical error. He hopes that his passion in writing will one day lead him to work in New York’s publishing world–and become the next Anna Wintour or Joe Zee.
http://niconovito.tumblr.com

mikprofile Michael Killian • Contributor

Michael Killian is a freelance graphic designer based in Jakarta handling many projects related with branding and fashion. Currently, he’s taking the Visual Communication Design degree at Pelita Harapan University. He’s very passionate about design, fashion and good music. Michael also admires people who are enthusiastic about their passion and respect those who always strive for the best.
http://michaelkillian.blogspot.com

Natasha Gabriella Tontey • Photographer

I’m Natasha Gabriella Tontey, I was born in Jakarta, in the year where Ted Bundy were executed in the electric chair. I studied photography at Galeri Foto Jurnalistik Antara (2007-2008) and currently I’m finishing my study in Visual Communication Design in UPH while working as an inventor of fascinating and toothsome useful things. I adore Frida Kahlo, Shel Silverstein, Led Zeppelin, Freddie Mercury, and I have weird obsession with Barbie, doll parts, scented candles, book collecting especially naps among other thing

http://kleinpoppetje.blogspot.com/

Aidil Akbar Latief • Contributor

Aidil worked for the US Department of State’s youth radio program and studies design at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). While not busy solving cases or scourging flea markets and secondhand booksellers, the fan of Gaudi, Miyazaki, and Gaiman writes to chart his way out of his labyrinthine thoughts. Deeply interested in arts, mythology, semiotics, and cultural studies, Aidil is actively involved in AFS, an organization that fosters intercultural understanding through international student exchange. He’s in awe with The Everyday.
http://aidilakbarlatief.blogspot.com

profile_column1 Chandra Drews / Ffonz • Music Editor

Amsterdam based Ffonz collects records like there’s no tomorrow, documents gigs and puts them on paper, compiles mixtapes for no apparent reason, and dreams one day of transforming Jakarta into a musical Mecca.

http://theludovico.tumblr.com/

profileken Ken Jenie • Music Editor

Jirapah singer and guitarist who is lactose intolerant. Ken enjoys the arts and is fascinated by the variety, and hopes mankind is curious about anything and everything. Cheers!
http://www.jirapah.com

jank jan k • Music Editor

Ever since the long cold European winter forced him to spend more time indoors, jan learned to keep himself busy by listening to all kinds of music he could get his hands on. This kind of unnatural activity subsequently lead to a number of unhealthy obsession with certain artists, eras or genres for which he has since received the appropriate treatment. Now aiming to awaken the dormant music-lover that resides within every (wo)man.
http://www.naturalisnotinit.tumblr.com/

Ezra Natalia Silitonga • Writer / Sub Editor

Ezra began to write in early 2000, started with personal blog then decide to contribute for NY based web publication. First majoring in multimedia with few fine arts injection, then decided go deep into fashion jungle – despite a really hectic life, she just won’t stop learning. This talkative one lives as nomad, and aimed Paris as her next living destination.
http://doofuswabbit.blogspot.com/

Ogam Anantyo • Writer / Sub Editor

While bending over backwards to finish his degree in Engineering, Ogam Anantyo still gets a thrill out of good design, good music and good books. Favorite pastime includes long walks on the beach and calculating the head loss of exhaust gases flow in the first stage nozzle vanes. Hates square-toed shoes and has an unhealthy obsession with Pocari Sweat. Oh, and Lindsay Lohan.
http://ogam.wordpress.com/

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Athina Ibrahim • Editor
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Taufan P. Irawan • Marketing & Project Management
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