About the Studio

Tiny Little Cosmos is exactly what it sounds like — a pocket-sized universe designed to introduce a little wonder, curiosity, and excitement into your day. As a creative studio, we make our own work, promote the work of others, and work with clients on custom projects.

On the service side, we specialize in equipping individuals, businesses, and people-powered movements and communities with breakthrough narratives with staying power by pairing creative marketing and communications with smart campaign strategies and technologies that scale.

Who We Work With

TLC partners with mission-driven organizations, leaders, and creative pioneers worldwide. Whether you need to understand your audience, set a clear strategic path, produce compelling media, bring people together, or preserve your legacy, we help you communicate your value and build excitement to achieve memorable, measurable, and enduring impact.

Philosophy

  • Structure unlocks creativity — Systems and frameworks create the freedom to explore bold ideas.

  • Strategy honors instinct — Rigorous analysis should sharpen intuition, not override it.

  • Imagination is intelligence — Creative vision is a vital form of strategic problem-solving.

  • Trust is paramount — Trust is earned through communication, consistency, and commitment.

Values

  • Progressive, pro-planet, pro-liberation, anti-fascist, anti-genocide, anti-slavery, anti-racist, and anti-hate — We accept clients and partners who are committed to building just, equitable, and flourishing futures for all.

  • 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 is heard.

  • Shared responsibility — Great results are built together.

What We Do

1. Understand the Problem

Research & Design

  • Audience & Field Research: Interviews, focus groups, surveys, polls, quizzes, and ethnography to understand markets, consumers and communities.

  • Service & System Design: Design sprints, human-centered design (HCD) frameworks, customer journey mapping, personas, and rapid prototyping.

  • Impact Evaluation & Optimization: Segmentation models, A/B and multivariate testing, impact frameworks, and decision models to monitor, evaluate, and predict impact to measure success and refine programs over time.

2. Decide Where to Go

Strategy & Executive Leadership

  • Board & Leadership Advising: Guiding executive directors, founders, and boards through organizational growth, governance, and long-term planning.

  • Brand Strategy & Identity Systems: Core brand positioning, narrative frameworks, naming, visual identity systems, and style guides.

  • Organizational Design & Transformation: Aligning internal structures, workflows, and culture during major strategic pivots, program launches, or scaling.

  • Media Strategy & Campaigns: Planning and running integrated paid advertising, PR, earned media, and digital communications campaigns.

  • Crisis Communications: Rapid-response messaging, risk mitigation, and reputation management during sensitive organizational moments.

3. Create the Work

Studio & Media Production

  • Graphic Design & Visual Layout: Publication layout, annual report design, presentation decks, marketing collateral, and digital asset packages.

  • Video & Photography: Full-frame video capture, documentary photography, multi-angle field shoots, and portable studio lighting setups.

  • Audio Production & Scoring: Voiceover tracking, podcast production, sound design, and custom music composition.

  • Editing & Post-Production: 4K video editing, motion graphics, color grading, and legacy video restoration.

4. Bring People Together

Events, Facilitation & Teaching

  • Event Production & Convenings: Planning, production, and management for conferences, summits, panel discussions, and live cultural events.

  • Workshops & Retreats: Facilitating strategic planning retreats, board alignment sessions, co-design labs, and team workshops.

  • Curriculum & Program Design: Building learning frameworks, educational materials, and innovation programs for higher education, tech, and non-profits.

  • Executive Coaching & Capacity Building: Individual mentorship, team training, and skill-building in strategy, research methods, and cross-cultural collaboration.

5. Publish & Preserve

Editorial, Design, Distribution, & Archiving

  • Writing & Content Programs: Short and long-form journalism, radio scripts, documentary writing, books, essays, and managing large-scale editorial programs.

  • Web & Data Visualization: Designing accessible websites, interactive web tools, digital libraries, and clear dashboards that make information easy to explore.

  • Marketing & Distribution: Performance-based marketing, advertising and promotional campaigns, strategies, plans, and events.

  • Archival Research & Preservation: Researching, documenting, organizing, clearing copyright, and storytelling for historical, cultural, and academic archives.

Clients & Partners

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About our Logo and Fonts

We made our wordmark logo TLC because, in addition to the double meaning being an accurate reflection of our approach to our work, the triple meaning is even better because we <3 the band. We also know the logo’s letterforms read more as “tk” than “tlc” at smaller sizes. We always welcome wordplay (especially about proofreading) alongside precision. Our headings font is Museo Moderno, an award-winning contemporary geometric typeface designed by Pablo Cosgaya, Héctor Gatti, and Marcela Romero of the Omnibus-Type team for the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Paragraphs are presented in TT Commons™ Pro, designed by Antonina Zhulkova, Ivan Gladkikh, Kseniya Karataeva, Pavel Emelyanov, and Yulia Gonina of TypeType. It is one of the studio’s most in-demand typefaces, described as a multilingual workhorse and recognized for its versatile character, extensive character set with support for a vast number of languages, and a functional set of OpenType features.

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