About

Dad wanted Lina, mom wanted Bee. Why choose? Lina Bee it was. And the name set the pattern: when given two options, her answer is always "yes, and". Shy in one room, social in the next. Obsessed with her mom's Thaï food and also with Belgian frituur. The answer is always both. 

She grew up between Antwerp, East Flanders, and Thailand. Two are a short drive apart while the third took layovers, a new language, and cultural switching. A childhood on the move that made reinventing herself a habit. So did inventing worlds, made real through drawing covers for comics. She'd worked out early that an image can carry a story on its own, and that instinct pointed her toward graphic design at LUCA school of arts. Later she went back to work in Bangkok, layovers and language switch included, this time by choice.

A little knowledge about a lot of things feeds her designer's curiosity at BaseBRU. She takes perfumes and hand creams seriously, and will never turn down a round of Catan. Two options, again, and the answer is: yes, and.