Mini Bio

Hi! My name is Maleika Esther Attawel and I'm a thirty-two year old German female, passionate about anything related to design technologies, usable & accessible web design, art & illustration, and typography. In my free time — which I rarely seem to have — I love reading literature (sounds so boring and uptight), and enjoy good classical music, mingled with a solid dose of Alternative Rock, Jazz, and good ol' Blues (and this sounds pretentious). And if I have even more time, I indulge in British Comedy TV finesse such as A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster and House (which is not British, but still superb fun!).

1976
Born on the 25th of June in Hamburg, Germany as the daughter of Kristina Samuel Schulz - Attawel (nurse) and Dr. Samuel Cornelius Roberts (medical doctor)
1984
Moved to Libya (Sahara) with my mother to join my father who was given a high position as chief med. for an international oil company
1984 - 1991
Received private, multi-lingual education to compensate for the lack of formal schooling possibilites in the Sahara as well as a ten-hour-per-day Tennis training drilling
1991 - 1992
Lived in Malta for one and a half years. Started international Tennis career and was featured in the WTA
1992 1995
Moved back to my home city, Hamburg, and immediately started apprenticeship as pharmaceutical assistant
1995
Graduated as pharmaceutical assistant
1995 - 1996
Went to school for a year to receive a formal secondary school/junior high certificate and graduated 2 months early
1996 - 1999
Worked as pharmaceutical assistant in a pharmacy in Hamburg, Germany
1998 - 2001
Went to school (A-Levels) for three years and graduated with university-entrance diploma
2000
First craven attempts to understand the inner workings of the web. Learned HTML & CSS and created websites for personal uses
2001
Graduated (A-Levels) with university-entrance diploma & received invitation to enroll at Oxford University (Great Britain) in the fields of English philology and literature, but opted to study in Hamburg
2001 - 2004
Studied Latin and Greek philology, philosophy and English literature at the University of Hamburg while self-educating myself in the field of art and web standards oriented design
2005 - Present
Entirely focused on web & interface design and working as a web designer full-time