Jean Aw is a 25 year old designer, trendspotter, and entrepreneur. She holds a Masters Degree in User Experience Design where she focused on both conceptual and visual design and usability research.
She has since channeled her education and design into NOTCOT Inc, a network of informative and collaborative websites that doubles as a design consultancy. By keeping her readers (and her readers keeping her) on the cutting edge of design, this network demonstrates, inspires, and promotes smart, simple user experiences while stimulating a visual, aesthetic and textual dialogue between users and designers.
While currently based in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA, she is very mobile, hopping around the country and across the globe, entrenching herself in international culture and their respective design hotspots. She often finds the most incredible things in the most unlikely of places and loves bringing them to her readers, often leaving them wondering whether the treasure was in their existence or in their discovery.
[ email: jaw-at-notcot.com | linkedin | facebook | posts as NOTCOT]
Daniel brings both a passion for elegant, intuitive interfaces and unparalleled technical expertise to Notcot. Day to day, he keeps NOTCOT alive and kicking for your viewing pleasure, repeatedly saving the day and incorporating all of our latest features.
Combining intuitive designs with their technical architecture comes naturally to Daniel, who holds degree in Cognitive Science (that's right, he can get in your head), and works as a designer and front-end engineer at a certain"very large" internet company.
[ email: dan-at-notcot.com | linkedin | posts as jermacide]
Linhchi helps us break from the perpendicular lines that often box most sites in through divs and css. She is the visual breath of fresh air you see artistically adorning the sites everywhere from the gallery tags of .com, the ad holders across the network, and even some of the best artwork we've showcased.
A San Diego native that headed north to SF, she holds a BA in Visual Arts, Studio and has also spent time exploring Art History at the University of Leeds. She is passionate about creating and designing fresh new digital spaces, and obsessing about well-designed things in general, especially printed matter like stationery, cards, a nice magazine, business cards, etc. (ohh the feel of it in my hands... somehow makes it more "real").
Her obsession about design extends to the world of fashion as well. Always having been interested in clothing and shopping, it seemed natural for her to become a designer for an online fashion magazine, and now she has taken on the role of senior editor of NOTCOTâ the fashion+beauty+shopping site, NotCouture.
[ email: linhchi-at-notcot.com | linkedin | posts as shade elaine]
Justine is a 22 year old PhD Candidate + fencer + animal lover, with a passion and knack for finding some of the most intriguing and brilliant products, trends, artists, music, and websites in any nook of the world or internet. In essence, there is little she can't do - and she truly leads NOTCOT.org's taste and style keeping it up to date with great inspirational content. Quite possibly the most well rounded editor we could have imagined for such a wide reaching range of content.
[ email: justine-at-notcot.com | linkedin | posts as rugenius]
Anna Corpron is one half of Sub-Studio, a collaboration that began in New York City in 2004 when she and Sean Auyeung forged a design partnership to combine their individual creative interests. At the moment, Sub-Studio draws inspiration from the flora and fauna of the natural world, urban spaces, the anatomy of machines, construction, mapping, and the creatures that they imagine. Besides making things, Sub-Studio also provides multi-faceted design solutions to clients seeking a young yet sophisticated style. When not collaborating on new designs for Sub-Studio, Anna can be found developing her line of jewelry, Brevity, or "internerding", as Sean likes to call it. Which works out well, since that's where Anna digs up most of her posts for Notcot.com and the Sub-Studio Design Blog.
[ email: anna-at-notcot.com | posts as sub-studio]
Sarah teaches us all how to enjoy the culinary delicacies we didn't even know existed. This food writer/editor extraordinaire and fashionista, is the Director of Marketing at a social shopping site, editor of both a large food and fashion site, writes her own well followed blog, The Delicious Life, and manages to make guest appearances on everything from restaurant reviews on LX.TV to... ok well we can't say yet, but there are big things in the works!
[ email: sarah-at-tastespotting.com | linkedin | posts as sarah]