“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of technology and biology.” -Steve Jobs

A biodesign innovation studio providing R&D capabilities for lean start-ups and growing companies.

YAMi offers design consulting services to help startups, companies, and creative teams develop nature-inspired, sustainable and technologically forward-looking design solutions. 

Our work bridges design, science, and speculation to deliver novel ideas designed to help organizations think longer-term, innovate responsibly, and design in alignment with the planet.

  • Biomimicry & Biodesign services to support organizations in translating biological strategies, systems, and behaviors into sustainable design solutions. This offering is tailored for small to mid-size design teams, startups, and companies that do not have the resources to maintain in-house research labs but want access to cutting-edge thinking, experimentation, and near-future concept development.
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  • Here the skills applied to designing real world solutions are applied to concept art. BioPunk Concept Art & Futures Visualization applies rigor and creativity to create research-informed concept art for the entertainment industry. In the lineage of Syd Mead and Daniel Simon, this practice translates emerging biotechnological research into plausible visual worlds, living systems, grown architectures, symbiotic technologies, and speculative ecologies—not as strategy or product direction, but as grounded, research-informed concept art that expands narrative possibility while remaining scientifically literate.