Lau Tiam Kok was born in Penang, Malaysia. He studied Bachelor of Applied Arts at the University Malaysia Sarawak (19961999) and pursued a postgraduate MSc in Digital Futures at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth, UK (20022003). He is a minimalist designer and a fullstack web developer. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelancer, contractor, collaborator, or employee for various individuals, companies, organizations, and universities across Malaysia and Europe. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked as a Web Designer and Multimedia Designer/Developer for various local and multinational companies from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Additionally, he worked as a Web Application Developer in Kuala Lumpur from June 2015 to August 2016 and as a Data Architect and Analyst for Citizen Sense in the United Kingdom from 2015 to 2021.