Meet the authors of the book HOW book "Caffeine for the Creative Team," which is featured as an excerpt with a FREE CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING DOWNLOAD in the June 2009 issue of HOW.


Stefan Mumaw
Mumaw is the creative director and “Provider of All That Rocks” for REIGN, a Kansas City, MO-based ad agency. He’s written four books, the most recent being “Caffeine for the Creative Team,” which he co-authored with Wendy Lee Oldfield for HOW Books. The sequel to the popular creative resource “Caffeine for the Creative Mind,” ‘Team Caffeine” explores the creative process as it plays out within groups and teams. Mumaw is obsessed with the creative process, which has been the subject of the many presentations he’s given at industry gatherings; you can find him and Oldfield hosting a workshop at this year’s HOW Design Conference. He’s been known to embarrass himself and those around him if given the opportunity.

Wendy Lee Oldfield
Whether traveling abroad or relaxing at home in Southern California, Oldfield keeps her camera close at hand to capture everyday flashes of unfiltered visual inspiration, using them to fuel her design work at Vekay Creative. In her off hours, Oldfield immerses herself in font porn, consumes mass quantities of ketchup and strolls around Stormwind. Her most recent creative outburst is “Caffeine for the Creative Team” with Stefan Mumaw, a follow-up to the brain-tickling inspirational book “Caffeine for the Creative Mind.”