IT'S THE WATERBOYS

OFFICE FOR DESIGN FUTURES

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Design enabling new perspectives

We live at a time when our present is only limited by our ability to reimagine and design our vision of the future. As a studio, WaterBoys demonstrates how forward-thinking businesses and institutions can shape their present and create value, while exploring and enabling their future opportunities. Working at the intersection of green tech and industrial innovation, we are focused on designing physical objects, services, and ventures for a world in search of new perspectives.

We live at a time when our present is only limited by our ability to reimagine and design our vision of the future. As a studio, WaterBoys demonstrates how forward-thinking businesses and institutions can shape their present and create value, while exploring and enabling their future opportunities. Working at the intersection of green tech and industrial innovation, we are focused on designing physical objects, services, and ventures for a world in search of new perspectives.

STUDIO OVERVIEW

Founded by Dom Akerele, Nick Barnette, and "T" Tachaworasinkasem, WaterBoys operates as a hybrid research, innovation, and venture studio. Together with a team of industry specialists, researchers, technologists, and makers we explore new design opportunities and create innovations and ventures that demonstrate our studio's ability to make our perspectives tangible.

Founded by Dom Akerele, Nick Barnette, and "T" Tachaworasinkasem, WaterBoys operates as a hybrid research, innovation, and venture studio.

Together with a team of industry specialists, researchers, technologists, and makers we explore new design opportunities and create innovations and ventures that demonstrate our studio's ability to make our perspectives tangible.

Dom Akerele

DESIGN STRATEGY & FUTURES RESEARCH

Leads design research, innovation strategy, and venture development.

Brooklyn, NY.

Nick Barnette

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & MAKING

Leads physical design, material exploration, technical prototyping and fabrication.

Atlanta, GA.

"T" Tachaworasinkasem

CREATIVE DIRECTION & BRAND

Leads visual direction, branding systems, and studio documentation.

Bangkok, Thailand.

SERVICES

SERVICES

Research and design enabling opportunities that you can build, fund, patent, or license.

Research and design enabling opportunities that you can build, fund, patent, or license.

01

Research & Strategic Foresight

Research, green tech exploration, and the design of strategic roadmaps, north stars, and speculative concepts defining your new opportunities.

02

Innovation Development

Physical and digital products, services, and platforms, designed to demonstrate innovation that you can act on, reinterpret, and build.

03

New Ventures

Venture exploration and development designed to support your early ideas, structure your thesis, and build you an investable concept and pitch.

LEctures & Talks

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute School of Industrial Design

Pratt Institute School of Industrial Design

Pratt Green Week

Pratt Green Week

Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design

Carnegie Mellon MasterClass (2025)

Carnegie Mellon MasterClass (2025)

IDSA NYC (2025)

IDSA NYC (2025)

NYC x Design (2025)

NYC x Design (2025)

WaterBoys is an office for design futures exploring how design can enable new perspectives for businesses. The office operates as a hybrid research, innovation, and venture studio at the intersection of green tech and industrial innovation. Through this work, it demonstrates a contemporary practice designing futures-inspired opportunities that can be reinterpreted in the present.

LOCATIONS

Brooklyn, New York

Atlanta, Georgia

Bangkok, Thailand

GENERAL INQUIRIES

dom@itsthewaterboys.com

PRESS & COLLABORATIONS

dom@itsthewaterboys.com

INSTAGRAM

@itsthewaterboys

©2020 It's the WaterBoys. All Rights Reserved

WaterBoys is an office for design futures exploring how design can enable new perspectives for businesses. The office operates as a hybrid research, innovation, and venture studio at the intersection of green tech and industrial innovation. Through this work, it demonstrates a contemporary practice designing futures-inspired opportunities that can be reinterpreted in the present.

LOCATIONS

Brooklyn, New York

Atlanta, Georgia

Bangkok, Thailand

GENERAL INQUIRIES

dom@itsthewaterboys.com

PRESS & COLLABORATIONS

dom@itsthewaterboys.com

INSTAGRAM

@itsthewaterboys

©2020 It's the WaterBoys
All Rights Reserved.