An outdoor spatial design company
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Founder, Principal Designer
Plantkind is being grown by Lily Bodnar, a queer gardener and artist, with previous experience at design-build firms, native plant nurseries, national design organizations, branding studios, and venture-backed education technology startups.
Plantkind is pushing fresh perspectives as a design practice that is developing our own software, open sourcing deep industry knowledge, and digging into financial transparency.
Organizations
Member of AIA SF (American Institute of Architects)
California Native Plant Society.
Background
The design practice began in Oakland, California almost ten years ago in the spring season.
Land Acknowledgement
Acknowledging our work is happening on traditional, occupied, and unceded territory of Indigenous peoples, including the Ohlone, Yokuts, Miwok and many others.
Growing Conditions Newsletter
A newsletter about designing outdoor spaces for living. Spanning beyond the botanical side, it serves as a resource center that gathers the functional objects, outdoor furniture, and architectural features that give form to gardens. Published alongside personal reflections on running a landscape design studio in California and digging into the various fields of research, tools, and systems.
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The site is built on Cargo, the typeface is set in Diatype from Dinamo, OpenWeather API powers the header display, Claude assisted in troubleshooting, Hover takes care of the domain name, and Tally provides the new client in-take form backend.
Partnering with like-minded firms to explore outdoor spaces that bring their vision to life.
Focused on restaurant groups, multifamily residential, property developers, and mid-stage startups.
Our studio collaborates with architects, interior designers, fabricators, builders, arborists, and engineers to bring expressive and functional landscapes to life.
From holistic large scale projects and smaller scopes where landscape perspectives are needed.
Always keeping our eyes open for lovely people to work with.
Not actively hiring but feel free to reach out and share work samples and your interests.
Ideal team members bring design talent plus project management experience.