Denise likes taking ideas for a walk to see where they will go. They have turned into works for The Straits Times, such as opinion columns on issues like living and dying well, and a war-on-waste interactive graphic that won accolades from the Malofiej International Infographics Awards and the World Association of News Publishers’ Digital Media Awards Asia. She also designed ST’s first e-book, which won a Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association award. She may have a soft spot for the controversial Oxford comma.