Imani Hamilton is a sustainable design consultant for products and buildings.
She utilizes sustainable design, materials, manufacturing, construction, and supply chain strategies to optimize for low carbon, low toxin, low waste, and circular outcomes.
Her clients include universities + innovation centers, consumer goods companies, furniture + building product manufacturers, managers of real estate portfolios, general contractors, architects, interior designers, homeowners, and fellow designers.
My Background
I’m a designer who learned a deep respect for nature from an early age. I now combine my love of design and sustainability expertise to create healthy, decarbonized, and circular products and spaces — better for planet and people.
Since 2015, Imani’s corporate clients have included Sway Innovations seaweed bioplastic, UC Berkeley College of Engineering Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship + Technology Deplastify the Planet Course, KOVA building products, Innovation Centre Denmark in Silicon Valley, The Good Future Design Alliance, Google R+D for New Campus Development while at VITAL Environments, Full Circle home goods, Indosole shoes, Memo furniture, and several West Coast residential projects, including the first ILFI Zero Carbon Certified home renovation candidate. Applying technical vetting and design research, Imani builds sustainability strategies for her clients to design and specify products, materials, manufacturing, and supply chains.
B.A., Architecture
2010, Lehigh University, Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor
Brand + Marketing Director
2011 – 2015, CMG
Product Design Lead, Google R+D
2016 – 2018, while at VIT∆L
Sustainable Design Consultant
2015 – Present, Imani Hamilton Design
I define sustainable as non-toxic, low carbon, and low waste, or circular.
I help my clients research, assess, specify, and design to these performance standards.
“The laundry list of abilities that Imani can claim mastery of is extensive, unique and wholly remarkable. I had the fortune of working with Imani on a series of product designs over the course of two years during her time at VITAL. Her ability to simultaneously manage a highly complex, amorphous program of design and delivery whilst bringing a clear, beautifully realized aesthetic to her design choices made her critical to the success of the resulting products. The program of work we partnered on involved multiple teams, working across a diverse range of trades and expertise, with multiple vendors. Throughout, Imani was able to marshal the different parties to successful delivery, whilst also navigating the inevitable politics that arise in any large, cross-functional program.
I cannot emphasize enough the value, rigor, momentum and fun Imani brought to our work together.”
- Martin Kemp, Product Manager at Google
How and what we make matters more than ever.