Let’s design a world that’s kind to the senses

Kendall McCaugherty for Turf Design

Durasein

The Right Exposure for Feeney, Inc.

Ames Design partners with brands and clients to advance human wellbeing through research-driven, sensory-focused education, products, and interiors.

Our values are the raw materials of every project.
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Empathy

Matters

We design with people, not just for them.

Evidence

Matters

We ground creativity in research and measurable insight.

Sustainability

Matters

We honor our responsibility to both people and planet.

Accessibility

Matters

We make beauty and wellbeing universally available.

Community

Matters

We work in partnership, sharing success with others.

Process

Matters

We approach every project as an act of curiosity and care.

Details

Matter

We obsess over the little things, because every detail matters.

Trust

Matters

We build connection through transparency and respect.

Guided by these values, our work takes many forms.

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Education experiences that sharpen creativity.

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CEU

Design Futures

Fyrn (2024)

GBCI

HSW

IDCEC

Lecture

ICFF Talks

ICFF + WANTED (2023)

AIA

HSW

IDCEC

Colors, materials, and finishes that tell stories.

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Wood Textures Sunkissed Surface Design Hues Color Curations

Immersive spaces that engage every sense.

Explore Interiors

Atlanta Workplace Design

Ascending Capital Management (2023)

Experience Center

Turf (2025)

House of Rohl Booth Design

House of Rohl Riobel Launch at KBIS (2022 & 2023)
Whether educational, material, or spatial, everything we create starts with research that surfaces both evidence and intuition.
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Research

Exploration

Development

Implementation

Measurement

We’re listeners, researchers, and designers, brought together by care for how people experience the built environment.

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Founder, Design Principal

Carolyn Ames Noble

Superpower

Illuminates the future, using research, intuition, and empathy to redefine the world of design.

Creative Director

Allen Gaoiran

Superpower

Builds entire worlds through design, where strategy, emotion, and creativity converge.

Project Coordinator

Alysha Marifiote

Superpower

Sees the whole system, bringing clarity, calm, and order to creative chaos.

Senior Designer

Danielle O'Sullivan

Superpower

Weaves sustainability and human connection into the very fabric of physical space.

Writer & CEU Strategist

Tasha Hughes

Superpower

Making design knowledge memorable.

Our clients say the kindest things about us.

Ames Design’s ability to connect sensory experience, materiality, and research brings depth to every project.

Faraz Shah

Brand Director, Turf Design

Ames Design’s creative vision, eye for trend forecasting, and understanding of material have shaped a distinctive, forward-thinking strategy for the brand.

Brandon Guthrie

Marketing Director, Durasein Solid Surface

Carolyn consistently demonstrates exceptional creative leadership.

Cheri Phyfer

Executive and Mentor

Ames Design managed to expertly blend different style preferences and pull them together into a space that feels cohesive, elevated, and personal.

Seth Asher

Partner, Ascending Capital Management

Carolyn has the rare ability to provide a pure perspective, apply your feedback and constraints, then reshape her work to ensure commercial results.

Rob Perri

Business Leader
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