Welcome

We create naturally enticing opportunities to linger.

Our work strives to renew fascination with the natural landscape and its inhabitants by revealing unseen connections through mindfulness and sensitivity to details.

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About Dana Smith

I’ve been an artist and designer for more than 30 years. Harkening back to my very first studio in an unfinished room of the house my architect-parents designed and built, creativity is my life’s foundation, and my love.

I recently designed and oversaw a major renovation of an architect-designed home in Monterey/Carmel, CA, while studying the dramatic local landscape and earning a graduate degree in Science Illustration. I am currently training to complete Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, while developing an offering of mindful art experiences in nature.

Prior to this, I designed solutions to complex visual communication and functional challenges (in the form of award-winning immersive digital and physical experiences, infographics, interfaces, and products) for Scientific American, Stimulant, Intel, Cooper (now Designit), and Xplane, among others.

My background spans Science Illustration, Mindfulness & Meditation, Interior Design & Renovation, Interactive Installation Design, Experience Design (UX), and Industrial Design — alongside courses in Fine Art, Architecture, Somatic Psychology, Sound Healing, and a host of other informal knowledge quests about what makes us and the world around us the way it is.