Ashik has a favorite quote that begins, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Albert Einstein said it.)
As a biomedical engineer, Ashik relies on his imagination to wander and to wonder. He has conceived and developed life-saving technologies currently on the market, to help people suffering from certain heart ailments.
Ashik’s creative process includes talking to himself and pacing in circles for hours. He is also an accomplished napper. He finds balance in his daily life by writing and performing music on his saxophone. Baby Mohan has long fingers and may well become the cellist her father needs for his electric symphony. Won’t that make a dynamic sound-form?
The concept of sound-forms started humming in Ashik's brain in 2010. The first two sound-form shapes went live in March 2013.
Ashik grew up in Sonoma County, in Northern California. He is a world traveler, a beekeeper, and a hiker.
Jenelle’s first sound-form experience was recording her daughter’s fetal heartbeat, and then watching father-to-be Ashik make the recording into a sound-form. For her, the large work of art over the mantel is the embodiment of months of expectant excitement and wonder. Baby Mohan, almost as soon as her eyes could focus, became mesmerized by the sound-form too. It must be hereditary!
Jenelle nannied her way through college and law school. She has focused on business and estate planning, helping her clients protect and preserve their legacies.
Jenelle envisions sound-forms’ providing a dual legacy for her family: an artistic legacy from recorded memorable moments in their lives and a scientific legacy of innovation.
Jenelle is a direct descendant of Dutch painter Simon Moulijn, a contemporary of Vincent Van Gogh. She grew up on a farm in Northern California with three older generations of her family and a pastoral menagerie.
Jenelle shares Ashik’s love of music, hiking, and world travel.
Steve Holmes revels in transforming ideas into tangible, visual realities in cyberspace and in print.
He is fascinated by finding ways to make things that don’t normally move, move (like type) and to make things that normally move, hold still (like sound-forms). Improbably, Steve also enjoys coding.
Steve has won many awards for web design and motion graphics, and his diverse clients include AT&T, Vectorworks, Hiball Energy Drink, Project Sport, Adobe and 3D Connexion.
He carries his iPad everywhere (even when he’s on his Vespa) and loves the Paper and ProCreate apps for sketching new ideas, concepts and storyboards.
Born in England, Steve moved to San Francisco in 2002, and relocated to Munich in 2011. He is the founder and creative director of Energi.design
Steve is an elite bicycle racer and was part of the world-record-setting team that won the Race Across America in 2006. He loves wide-open mountain landscapes and can often be found riding in the Italian Alps.