About the studio
Hi, I’m Deepthi Welaratna. Tiny Little Cosmos is the studio from which I offer specialized services in strategic design and creative storytelling to movement building organizations and individuals.
Who We Work With
TLC partners with organizations and individuals across the globe to create social change. We can help you build your community, scale inclusive decision making, grow with purpose, and achieve measurable impact.
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 — We work with people who treat others with patience, empathy, and integrity.
Positivity with purpose — We 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.
Progressive, Anti-racist and pro-liberation — We accept clients and partners who are committed to building just, equitable, and flourishing futures for all.
Capabilities
Brand & Business Strategy
Crafting brand identities, narrative systems, and touch points that resonate including logos, brand stories, messaging frameworks, style guides, and more.
Research & Design Methods
Including workshops, polls, focus groups, ethnography, surveys, quizzes, A/B testing, design sprints, HCD and collaboration frameworks including personas, customer journey mapping and UX/UI flows.
Learning and Innovation
Including consumer, community, and market research, open innovation, monitoring and evaluation, product launches and optimization, digital transformation, and organizational design.
Creative Production & Management
Art and copy direction, pitches and presentations, events and convenings, and cross-functional and cross-cultural team recruiting and management from concept to completion.
Executive Coaching & Advising
Advising, mentorship, and trainings for individuals and teams. Topics include career paths, social entrepreneurship, creative methods, cross-cultural collaboration, research and strategy process, and impact and performance measurement.
Communications & PR Strategy
Framing, drafting, pitching, translation and localization, and capacity building for individuals, teams, and organizations in times of crisis and opportunity.
Clients & Partners
Let’s Get Started
Select a time that works for you, and we’ll talk about what you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Tiny Little Cosmos is exactly what it sounds like—a pocket-sized universe designed to bring a little wonder, curiosity, and calm to your day. Whether you are here to explore, create, or just find a peaceful escape, there is a small corner of this cosmos built just for you.
It is also a boutique strategic design and storytelling studio. We take massive, multi-layered visions and/or deeply tangled organizational bottlenecks and translate them into structured, elegant strategy and narrative architecture.
Our approach combines a powerful creative and technical skillset to express expansive, big-picture thinking with a rigorous commitment to scientifically grounded research, design, and management methodologies.
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We design the infrastructure and narratives that help social movements launch and scale, secure funding, and create social change.
Our core pathways include:
Anchor & Action Strategic Design Sessions: Live facilitation and prioritization sessions to untangle internal operations, clear bottlenecks, and rapidly map out actionable workflows.
Custom Storytelling Engagements: Multi-stakeholder strategy, narrative architecture, and storytelling infrastructure solutions designed for focused campaigns or broader initiatives.
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Tiny Little Cosmos operates on an agile, studio-network model led by our founder and studio lead. Depending on the scale, complexity, and specific needs of a project, we assemble and manage a custom team of specialized experts, which could include researchers, designers, and other creative collaborators. This model ensures you get a hyper-focused team tailored precisely to your goals without the unnecessary overhead of a traditional agency.
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You can engage with the studio in three ways depending on your immediate needs:
Book an On-Demand Session: For rapid focus and clear next steps, instantly schedule a 1- to 3-hour strategy session through our Anchor & Action framework.
Request a Custom Proposal: For comprehensive, multi-stakeholder initiatives or long-term retainers, contact us to schedule a consultation.