Welcome

We transform spaces into naturally enticing places to linger.

Our work prioritizes sensitivity to architectural details, empathy for human needs and well-being, and love for the local natural landscape.

We strive to renew fascination with the natural and built spaces around us by revealing unseen connections, and highlighting special, subtle details.

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About Dana Smith

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

I’ve been a designer and artist 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, design 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.

Prior to that, 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 design work tends to be highly-collaborative, and led towards a human-centered vision.