VV&A and Big Dipper grew out of our founder Voltaire Veneracion's twin passions of law and publishing. He was Editor of the Philippine Collegian from 1996 to 1997, while he was studying in UP Law. After working in the Supreme Court in April 2003 and while doing non-profit work for Friends of the Earth Philippines, he established the law firm VV&A to take up private cases. He continued to write creatively, however, and set-up Big Dipper at first as a division of VV&A to handle creative projects. Big Dipper has grown from being a writing division to a separate business that deals with all kinds of publishing, from print to video to web.