Apple Chan Resonance was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. A graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman. She’s a board-certified licensed Interior Designer and a college professor prior to moving to Singapore to practice commercial and corporate interior design. She then moved to Los Angeles to continue practicing high-end residential interior design and was an associate member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).

A shift happened when she met David King, founder of SLOLA (Seed Library of Los Angeles) during a seed-saving gathering and was instantly inspired. Much more led to an awakening when she enrolled in a class in Design Sustainability at the UCLA Extension which prompted Apple to embody the sustainable lifestyle through growing their own food from seed, building tiny houses and nature schooling her son in their homestead in Topanga Canyon.

She is a watercolor artist and author-illustrator of several books that promote awareness on vegetable gardening, seed-saving and eco-spirituality.

Both of her parents– paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were from the Northern Regions in Ilocos and Abra. This cultural influence was strong that Apple grew up having the colorful Pinakbet and a related dish called dinengdeng as regular dishes to prepare in their household in her youth. Learning how to cook the pinakbet was one of the basic trainings growing up. And being the eldest child, she was inspired to create her third book, ‘Kami Ang Pinakbet’.

Apple lives in Big Bear, California and is a contributing wildlife conservation artist for ABUN (Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature) since 2019.

Vinson “Soy” Lao was born and raised in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. After completing high school, he pursued his passion for design and creativity at the University of the Philippines, where he earned a degree in Architecture. Shortly after obtaining his professional license, he established his own architectural firm, specializing in the design and construction of residential homes.

In the early 2000s, Soy moved to Northern California to join his wife and build a new chapter of their lives together. They now reside in the East Bay with their two children.

Beyond architecture, Soy has a lifelong—and often unrequited—love affair with basketball, a passion he simply cannot seem to quit. In his spare time, he enjoys following the NBA, creating comic strip sketches, playing computer games with his son, and traveling with family and friends.

Soy is currently a practicing licensed architect in the State of California. Alongside his architectural career, he is also a published author and accomplished comic book artist, blending his love for storytelling, illustration, and design into his creative pursuits.