How does a moment last forever?
"Every place and story worth remembering is safe enough to explore and strange enough to be worth it."
CARLOS
Founder, Creative Lead
Carlos was raised at sea, between safe harbors. He drew maps of the ports he passed through and the stranger places beyond them, filling the margins with stories from the sailors he met and places that weren't on any chart yet. He still works that way. He designs places that feel strange and familiar at the same time, somewhere you've never been but can already imagine living in, and then draws the building they become.
That instinct is the whole studio. Design Discovery exists because when drawings are tied to concepts in the same mind, nothing gets lost in translation.
He holds three degrees from SCAD, an MFA in Themed Entertainment Design, a Master of Architecture, and a BFA. He is a Certified Playground Safety Inspector and an avid video game and interactive designer. His work has been built on four continents across theme parks, museums, cruise, and family entertainment, most recently as Senior Production Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering, and before that with Falcon's Creative Group, The Hettema Group, JRA, WET, and RWS. He works in English and Spanish.
ISA
Cofounder, Principal Interior Designer
Isa is from Cuenca, a colonial city in the Andes standing on Inca stone, where every wall and every story rests on an older one. She has been adding her own layers since, training in Ecuador and Italy, living in the Netherlands and across the Americas, always in places that carry their history openly and keep building on it. She learned early that a person needs both the comfort of the known and the pull of what comes next, and that every good space holds that balance too.
That is what she designs for. Her work is experiential before it is visual: the sequence of a space, what you see first, where you slow down, the point where a threshold tells you something has changed.
Fifteen years across high-end residential, commercial, and hospitality, with a master's in strategic design thinking that puts method behind the instinct. Precise, deeply client-centered, and unwilling to let anything into a space that has not earned its place.
