Ester Strijbos was born in the Netherlands. She studied at St Lucas in Boxtel, The Netherlands. (Graphic Design) and Vakschool Schoonhoven. She worked for 2 years for TP Promotion Group in Eindhoven where she was their first in-house graphic designer. Clients included Mercedes Benz, Rabobank Nederland, ABN Amro Bank, KNVB and de Lage Landen. She decided to leave the corporate environment and move to Canada where she is now working as a freelance designer. Her work includes magazine layout, brochure/rack card design, web design & development, and online marketing solutions/presentations. She works on an Apple with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe GoLive, Dreamweaver and Wordpress. In her free time she likes to throw pots.

Oliver Kellhammer is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art's Photo/Electric program and is currently doing graduate work at the University of British Columbia. He has been working in IT for over 25 years. He is currently developing an open-source archive management system for artists. Oliver is conversant with php/MySQL, MediaWiki, Plone and Drupal as well as many other open source web tools.