About
A Barcelona-based American designer.
Exploring the intersection of design, ethics, and ecology.
Growing @studioyonis and @otherwise.earth.
Projects
Strategic Narrative, Creative Narrative, and Brand Identity for a business design consultancy focused on putting people back at the center of business.
Side Projects
A newsletter exploring designers’ cultural, ethical, and ecological role in the climate crisis.
Writing
In the design industry, the climate crisis seems like a spectator sport. How can reimagining our arms-length relationship with it help push us toward action?
While biomimicry is a step in the right direction, do we misunderstand what parts of nature we’re supposed to mimic?
Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"
The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.
How could changing our compass for ‘good design’ help the industry address climate change?
We're more aware than ever of climate change, but how does a purely technical approach affect how we see the crisis?
We often understand ‘sustainability’ as a verb rather than a noun. Could this be a reason sustainability is so easily appropriated?
While it's common to see nature as a storehouse for humanity's needs, the next phase of business will likely need to see it as a collaborator.
What other ways can designers imagine the future, besides through technology?
How does the design industry stop us from seeing the full scope of the future?
Work Experience
→ Visa
→ Javier Limón "Hombres de Fuego"
→ Hac Te
→ Miceli & Sensat
→ Toyota "Start Your Impossible" Global Olympics Campaign