A design studio with a conscience

Where beauty meets purpose,
the planet breathes.

Komorebi is a multidisciplinary design studio working at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and systems change.

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Design that repairs
as it creates

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Strategy & consulting

Systems-level thinking that connects your purpose to real-world impact. We find the main thing and keep it the main thing.

02

Branding & identity

Visual identities that carry values in every pixel. Built to last, built to mean something.

03

Campaigns & storytelling

Communication that moves people from passive awareness to conscious action. Stories worth telling.

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Sustainable design

Packaging, products, and experiences designed for the circular economy. Nothing leaves without a plan to return.

How we change systems

01

Break

Interrupt

The circular economy begins with interruption — not recycling. We find the pattern and disrupt it.

02

Seed

Plant

Consciousness doesn't arrive fully formed. We plant it — in a child's book, a bee station, a door hanger.

03

Rewire

Change

New behaviours need new infrastructure. We design the habit, not just the message.

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Repeat

Systemise

The goal is not to win. It is to perpetuate the game. We build for permanence.

Thirteen acts of repair

The B.E. Story
BrandingBehaviour Change

The B.E. Story

A bio-enzyme cleaner brand that asked: what if cleaning your home didn't cost the planet anything? 7 product lines, 5 label iterations, a community refill system on WhatsApp.

Biodegrades 60–100% in 28 days

KSHT — Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust
Heritage15-year partnership

KSHT — Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust

A snake-infested cemetery became a biodiversity park with 70 species of flora and 53 species of fauna. Fifteen years of storytelling.

70 flora · 53 fauna species documented

Recall — Desert Biodiversity
Citizen ScienceExperience Design

Recall — Desert Biodiversity

A four-hour sunset safari at Al Qudra Lakes. 25 people became field biologists. 50+ species documented. Field guides, bee stations, seed bombs.

50+ species documented in one afternoon

Recall — Shoreline Foraminifera Study
Citizen ScienceResearch

Recall — Shoreline Foraminifera Study

The first citizen science foraminifera study ever conducted in the UAE. Several taxa recorded on iNaturalist globally for the first time.

First global iNaturalist records — several taxa

CHF — Terracotta Temples & Cemeteries
HeritageCommunication

CHF — Terracotta Temples & Cemeteries

Two phases of Commonwealth Heritage Forum conservation work in Kolkata. Temples that appeared in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, restored for the first time in India.

First-of-its-kind terracotta restoration in India

Forêt
BrandingConservation

Forêt

A brand identity built in mirror to its founder — Tania Das, landscape designer and forest ecology conservationist. The hawk moth in a circle.

A brand that carries the forest wherever it goes

Amir's Laundry
BrandingPro bono

Amir's Laundry

A pro bono rebrand for a Pakistani immigrant laundry in Dubai. The apostrophe in the logo is shaped like a leaf. A door hanger that was actually a manifesto.

The sustainable option costs nothing

IRD Studio — UDC Series
Social MediaStrategy

IRD Studio — UDC Series

Full Q2 social media strategy for a Dubai Design District interior architecture studio. The Unwrapping Design Consciousness series.

Thought leadership built post by post

BlueVerse — A children's book for a car wash
Storytelling for a brandChildren's Book

BlueVerse — A children's book for a car wash

BlueVerse, a water-efficient car care brand in the UAE, asked for a children's book — not a campaign. We made one: a watercolour storybook, three free colouring pages (one of their car wash), and animation scripts. The bridge between a litre saved and a sea preserved.

A car wash that teaches the next generation why water matters

Canbridge
AwarenessNeurodiversity

Canbridge

An autism centre for young adults in Chennai needed the world to see its community differently. Not awareness of limitation — celebration of uniqueness.

A reframe that changed the story people tell

Desert Hive Billboard
Concept pitchInnovation

Desert Hive Billboard

UAE's first regenerative billboard. A living insect hotel at billboard scale — supporting 40,000–60,000 native pollinators. Seeking investors.

A billboard that becomes habitat, not landfill

Aurina Labs
Concept DevelopmentIdentity

Aurina Labs

Lab-grown diamonds reframed as symbols of conscious power — not compromise, but conviction. What luxury looks like when it chooses the planet.

Luxury without extraction. Power without apology.

Magical Emotions
Children's BookIn Progress

Magical Emotions

A children's storybook guiding young readers through their emotional landscape — using Wizard Brain, whimsical emotion characters. Currently in production.

Every feeling has a name. Every child deserves to know it.

"I genuinely believe design can heal the planet if we create with purpose, intention and love. Nature is our ally in the matter."
— Ishita Das, Founder
Ishita Das

Sitting under The Great Wave. Of course.

Founder

Ishita Das

She was ten years old when she read an infographic in a nature magazine: plastic takes 500 years to decompose. Her analytical mind could not comprehend why anyone would choose to leave that much damage behind. That child is still running Komorebi.

Trained in Pune, Ahmedabad, and New York. A true Renaissance Designer — working across strategy, film, branding, education, citizen science, and conservation storytelling. Background across Ogilvy, human rights organisations, disaster documentation in the Sundarbans, and university teaching across three countries.

She is not building a business. She is building a life that becomes a legacy.

"Super fun to work with. I highly recommend it." — Ishita Das, on herself.

Objects with a reason to exist

Bee Station kit

Featured · Citizen science object

Small action. Vast ripple.

Bee Station kit

A small water source designed for bees, butterflies, and tiny pollinators to safely land and hydrate. Terracotta dish, pebbles, hand-illustrated instruction card. Designed by Komorebi as part of Recall — Desert Biodiversity. An act of care that keeps working long after it leaves our hands.

The Object

A shallow terracotta dish with pebbles. Fill with water just enough to touch the stone tops. Place near plants. Refresh every 1–2 days. That's all. That's enough.

The Purpose

Bees, butterflies, and tiny pollinators need safe landing points to drink. The stones prevent drowning. Every sip matters.

The Ripple

30 stations distributed across Dubai homes from a single afternoon. Each one supports pollination — the invisible work behind our food, forests, and flowers.

Tote bag

Apparel

"I must be a good person" tote

A joke and a manifesto at the same time. Canvas tote with the recycling symbol and the line that says everything: I recycle.

Inscape sketchbook

Physical product · Stationery

Inscape A5 sketchbook

Kraft cover, exposed binding, thick recycled pages. The word INSCAPE is screenprinted in white. Designed to hold ideas worth keeping.

Physical product

Seed bomb kit

Native UAE wildflower seeds in a biodegradable casing. Throw them where they're needed. Each one is a small act of repair.

Made to order · Small batch

The Orange Peel Candle

Burns beautifully. Returns completely. Natural soy wax inside a dried orange peel — the whole thing composts back when the week is up. 7-day burn. Only the small metal wick stand goes to recycling.

Apparel · On enquiry

Winter Is Here — snow jacket

You can't deny climate change. Might as well wear it. A snow jacket with one line: Winter is here. Because if you're wearing it, the whole argument is on you.

Free download · New

Baby On Board — the one people can actually see

Big enough to mean it. Dubai traffic is not for the faint-hearted. A Baby On Board sticker designed to actually be noticed. Print it. Stick it. Pass it on.

Free download

BlueVerse — Colouring pages

"To let a dugong be." Three illustrated colouring pages from the BlueVerse storybook. Print, colour, share. For all ages.

Free download · New

BlueVerse — Dumi storybook

"To let a dugong be." The full picture book about Dumi the Arabian dugong. A bedtime story that asks every child to look at the sea differently.

Free download

UAE Desert field guide

Species, ecosystems, and discovery prompts. Take it into the desert. Designed for citizen scientists and curious humans.

Free download · New

Recall — Discovery survey & scorecard

The full citizen-science discovery framework used at Recall events. Print, fill, score. The same tool 25 strangers used to become field biologists.

The first conversation
is always free

We work with conscious brands, NGOs, social enterprises, and governments who need someone to connect the dots.

hey@komorebidesign.com

or

Based in Dubai. Working globally.

Two cities, one practice

Studio · UAE

Dubai

Majan, Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Roots · India

Kolkata

Chak Garia, Kolkata
West Bengal, India

Climate clock

Time to 1.5°C: 7y 115d 14h 31m 55s

Atmospheric CO₂: 424.3 ppm

Temperature rise: +1.2°C above pre-industrial

A different story is possible.

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