
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!).

- 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)

- 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

- 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

- Lived in Malta for one and a half years. Started international Tennis career and was featured in the WTA

- Moved back to my home city, Hamburg, and immediately started apprenticeship as pharmaceutical assistant

- Graduated as pharmaceutical assistant

- Went to school for a year to receive a formal secondary school/junior high certificate and graduated 2 months early

- Worked as pharmaceutical assistant in a pharmacy in Hamburg, Germany

- Went to school (A-Levels) for three years and graduated with university-entrance diploma

- First craven attempts to understand the inner workings of the web. Learned HTML & CSS and created websites for personal uses

- 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

- 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

- Entirely focused on web & interface design and working as a web designer full-time