Born into a French-Indian family and raised in Singapore then Australia, Steph Raj was influenced by many people, cultures and factors that affected her present commitment to "Designing a Better World."
She has recently been a graphic designer for the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali, and a Media Designer & Trainer in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos. She loves the time she spent as an audiovisual worker in the vast Northern Territory region known as the Barkly, with its red earth and blue sky ... and the time she spent designing education signage for the Moon Bears in the lush tropical jungles of Luang Prabang ...
Amongst the 'force majeurs'; a family with a military-artist, a spiritual-atheist, a medical-cricketer and many weekends as a youth spent at the Singapore Zoo fostering learning and love for animals, nature and conservation from a young age.
As a result, Steph Raj is precisive, intuitive and urgent in her love for art through the field of Visual Communication. Currently located in Perth, Western Australia, her work is focused on quality rather than quantity, with hints of the Indian Ocean. Her work has been featured in books ("A Little Book of Lettering, Chronicle Press: 2012), press, and it + she attempts to aid people, animals or the environment in some way or another.