A creative studio for moments of transformation

Hi, I’m Deepthi Welaratna. Tiny Little Cosmos is my creative studio from which I write, make music and video art, design, and help visionaries turn their ideas into action. At TLC, my guiding intention is to create powerful, impactful work in an environment of mutual respect and possibility. I believe that the cosmos flourishes when people feel safe, seen, and valued.

Client and Partner Work

I work with individuals and teams navigating the unknown — when the path forward isn’t obvious and the stakes feel real. TLC services include creative collaborations and strategic consulting.

  • My creative practice spans writing, live performance, video and sound design for theatre, music composition, photography, and dramaturgy. I have worked independently and collaboratively across formats, stages, studios, and experimental spaces.

  • My strategy background includes planning, research, storytelling, and design to create campaigns and programs that move people, inspire action, and deliver measurable impact. I specialize in collaborative innovation, civic engagement, and the kind of synthesis work that helps complex ideas make sense.

TLC has partnered with organizations and individuals across the globe — from small businesses, nonprofits, and foundations to founders, artists, and solo creators — helping them clarify their message, amplify their voice, and engage audiences with confidence. Every project starts with understanding your story and ends with insights, tools, and strategies that you can use immediately.

Philosophy

  • Structure doesn’t limit creativity; it unlocks it.

  • Strategy should honor instinct, not override it.

  • Imagination is a form of intelligence.

  • Trust is earned through transparency, consistency, and reciprocity.

Values

  • Mutual respect — I work with people who treat others with patience, empathy, and integrity.

  • Positivity with purpose — I value solutions over cynicism and creativity over complacency.

  • Collaboration over ego — The best ideas emerge when everyone’s voice matters.

  • Shared responsibility — Great results are built together.

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Capabilities

Brand Narrative Systems

Crafting brand narratives and touch points that resonate including brand stories, messaging frameworks, style guides, personas, and more.

Research & Design Methods

Including workshops, polls, focus groups, ethnography, surveys, quizzes, A/B testing, design research, HCD frameworks, stakeholder and system mapping, network analysis, predictive analysis, and fuzzy cognitive mapping.

Strategic Innovation

Including trend and foresight analysis, open innovation, monitoring and evaluation, product development and management, digital transformation, and organizational design.

Creative Direction & Management

Guiding teams to produce print materials, videos, platforms, products, websites, infographics, data visualizations, campaigns, videos, convenings, and more from concept to completion.

Content & UX Copywriting

Including ad campaigns, SEO content, email marketing, blog writing, white papers, case studies, video scripts and more.

Communications & PR Strategy

Training, pitching, mentorship, and guidance for individuals, teams, and organizations in times of crisis and opportunity.

Clients & Partners

  • ArtsRising

  • Asian Pacific Fund

  • The Aspen Institute

  • Aspiranet

  • Athlete Ally

  • Autism Speaks

  • Aventis (now Sanofi)

  • Be The Change / ServiceNation / Opportunity Nation

  • The Bellagio Center

  • Born This Way Foundation

  • Boston Rising

  • Brilliant Earth

  • The British Museum

  • The California Endowment

  • California Secretary of State

  • California Tomorrow

  • The California Wellness Foundation

  • Carnegie Hall

  • Cause Communications

  • The Center for Global Policy Solutions / Global Policy Solutions

  • Center for Investigative Reporting

  • Chinatown Youth Initiatives

  • Cogenerate (formerly Civic Ventures / Encore.org / Experience Corps)

  • Dance Films Association

  • Disparition

  • Dow Chemical

  • The Elab at Parsons School of Design

  • Enspiral Foundation

  • Excell Educational Center

  • FIRST Robotics

  • Foster Youth Alliance

  • Foundation Rwanda

  • Freeform / The Fosters

  • The Global Fund

  • Godiva

  • Google

  • Groupe EDF

  • Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)

  • Honoring Emancipated Youth

  • Hope to Action

  • i.e. communications

  • IKEA

  • Impact NYC

  • The Institute of Development Studies

  • The James Irvine Family Foundation

  • The Knowledge House

  • KOFAVIV

  • Lifehack HQ

  • Lights in the Delta

  • Little Giant Creative (now JEME Agency)

  • The Los Angeles Public Library

  • The Lowline

  • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

  • Magnum Foundation

  • Media-Screen / Netpop Research

  • The Metropolitan Museum

  • Marsh McLennan

  • McGill University

  • Miss O & Friends / Hyperlinked

  • Movement Strategy Center

  • Mustard & Miel

  • Nationswell Studio

  • Neuro Water

  • New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

  • New York City Department of Records and Information Services

  • Openbox

  • Public School

  • Randi Zinn, Beyond Mom

  • Renault

  • The Resource Alliance

  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • The Rockefeller Foundation

  • /The Rules

  • San Mateo County

  • Secretary of State of California

  • Shelter Scotland

  • Sourcewater

  • Soy Andina

  • Speakaboos

  • Specialty Food Association

  • Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center

  • Thoughtworks

  • United Way of the Bay Area

  • United Way Worldwide

  • The University of Toronto

  • Verizon

  • Vote For Africa

  • Welcome Home Baby

  • YouTube

  • YWCA SEW

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