CONTRIBUTORS
eBoy (cover illustration) is Kai Vermehr,
Steffen Sauerteig, and Svend Smital,
“three guys working with image modules
which we combine to form complex artwork.” Svend lives in Berlin, and Steffen
and Kai live in Vancouver, B.C., with their
wives and kids, but they manage awesome collaborations across time and
space. They are currently working on
posters of Rio de Janeiro and FooBar 2,
“an up-to-date version to our internet-themed poster.” In their free time, they
enjoy “video gaming, swimming, carving
wood, playing drums, listening to music,
podcasts, and reading.” And they sleep
a lot.
Jen Siska (Balsa Dreams photography)
grew up in Illinois, studied photography
at the Art Institute of Atlanta, and has
made her home in San Francisco for
13 years. She just started a wedding
photography business (lovebirdphoto.
net) and hopes to one day buy land in
Joshua Tree, Calif., to build her dream
house. She enjoys trying new restaurants in the city, horseback riding on the
beach, and working on creative projects
with friends. Fortunate to have a career
that allows her to travel, she recently
spent time shooting a story in Marfa,
Texas, and is looking forward to her next
shoot in Asheville, N.C.
David Harris (Charlie’s Bear) started
designing electronic circuits when he
was 7, and that love has waxed and
waned over the intervening 30 years.
He’s passionate about science but
thinks it’s too stuck in old ways to be
as effective as it could. As a result, he
runs a science communication business
and is most interested in hacking the
processes of science through effective
design and innovative communication.
Outside of work, he tinkers with electronics, works on his balcony garden,
rock climbs, and spends as much time
as he can in California’s wine country.
I-Wei Huang (Video Copter) is drawn to
“any sort of visual problem solving.”
He loves “drawing, designing, hacking,
tinkering, brainstorming, and even just
playing games.” He’s well known for
making steam-powered robots under
the pseudonym CrabFu, is the youngest
person inducted into the Craftsmanship
Museum, and has won five gold medals
at RoboGames. He’s the lead character
artist at Toys for Bob, and has spent
most of his life making his character
designs come to life, “whether it’s on
paper, through animation, or with physical objects and machines.” See more of
his work at crabfu.com.
Craig Couden (editorial intern) doesn’t
have a technical background, but thinks
“the great thing about MAKE is that it’s
accessible to everyone on some level.”
He’s currently working on adapting
the Tron Bag project from CRAF T to
make “a sweet Tron: Legacy-inspired
jacket.” He still loves Lego, is “totally into
board games,” loves to read sci-fi (“the
weirder the better”), and is intrigued
by 3D printers (“I’m fairly certain that
if I didn’t work here I would still think
they were science fiction”). He lives
“the glamorous life of a MAKE intern” in
Petaluma, Calif., with his parents, sister,
and dog, Jake.
Zvika Markfeld (Gigantic Bubble
Blower) is a “self-educated software
architect who recently decided to leave
the I T business for industrial design
school, trying to catch up with the
childhood dream of becoming an inventor.” Current projects include a moon
gravitation harness, using meteorological balloons “to simulate the experience
of walking on the moon while staying
on beloved mother planet Earth,” and a
sign-language translator glove, “
combining an Arduino, Android phone, a few
flex sensors tied to a glove, and some
beefy algorithms.” He lives in Tel Aviv
with his spouse, Noam, occasional stray
cats, and gigantic soap bubbles.
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