The best brands are mirrors. Forêt was designed to reflect Tania Das exactly — her ecology, her art, her quiet fierceness, her deep love of forest systems. We didn't build a brand. We built a reflection.
Tania Das is Ishita's younger sister — a landscape designer, forest ecology conservationist, artist, and the founder of Forêt. She has studied in Ecuador. She has designed biodiversity parks for Scottish cemeteries. She has mapped ecological corridors that could connect two of Kolkata's most vital wetland systems. She carries the forest with her, quietly, everywhere.
When it came time to build Forêt's brand, she came to Komorebi. Not because Ishita was her sister, but because Ishita understood something most brand designers don't: that the best brands are purpose-driven founders, made visible. You don't invent a brand for someone like Tania. You listen until the brand reveals itself.
This line — which became part of Forêt's brand communication — wasn't written by a copywriter. It came from Tania herself. Komorebi's role was to make sure the whole brand held that truth at its centre, and never let decoration replace it.
Forêt is French for forest. It is also a word that holds something the English word doesn't quite — a certain quiet depth, an age, a canopy. That is exactly what Tania's work holds. The name was the brand before the brand existed.
Komorebi's approach to purpose-driven founder brands: we map the founder's values, personality, and mission — then design the brand to be their exact reflection. No invention. No imposition. Only translation.
Quiet, precise, scientifically rooted
Clean lines, careful typographic restraint
The forest as living system, not backdrop
The hawk moth — pollinator, ecosystem actor, not decoration
Artist — paints with raw material, emotion, and ecological memory
Her paintings as brand material — on totes, postcards, the identity
Deeply rooted in India, trained globally, working across ecosystems
French name, Indian studio, global ecological reach
Every colour chosen from nature's own range — not to be decorative, but to be ecologically honest. Deep forest, copper teal, aged moss, limestone cream. The palette of a place that has been growing for centuries.
The hawk moth in a circle — an ecologically significant pollinator, rendered as a precise botanical illustration. A mark that announces exactly what kind of studio this is.
Full visual identity — colour palette, typography, brand voice, and usage guidelines built to grow as Forêt's practice grows across projects and geographies.
Cards designed to feel like artefacts — not promotional material. Something a client would keep. The hawk moth circle on cream, quiet and confident.
A Komorebi initiative — Postcards from Nature — featuring Tania's original paintings as artwork, with the Komorebi and Forêt marks as shared brand partners.
Tania's art printed on fabric — turning her paintings into objects that carry the brand into the world. The tote bag as a gallery that walks.
A written articulation of Forêt's purpose, values, and positioning — designed to guide every future communication decision, and to hold the mission steady as the studio scales.
Tania Das holds a Master's in Landscape Design from CEPT, Ahmedabad, and a specialisation in Forest Landscape Conservation from Jatun Sacha Biological Station in Ecuador. She has designed biodiversity parks at the Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata. She has mapped ecological corridors for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. She has researched tropical dry deciduous forests in Lucknow. She is currently a visiting faculty member at Jadavpur University.
She is also Ishita's sister. The muse, the partner, the future team member — already listed in Komorebi's own constitution. The line between family and collaboration has always been thin. In Forêt's case, it disappeared entirely.
Tania paints. Her work is not illustrative — it is ecological and emotional. A whale in a wash of red and coral. Seagrass in deep ocean blue, glowing green at the edges. Creatures that carry the weight of their disappearance in the texture of the paint itself.
When Komorebi designed the Postcards from Nature — a joint initiative between the two studios — Tania's paintings became the front face of awareness communication. Not stock photography. Not illustration. Her original art, printed on postcard stock with a UAE camel stamp, ready to be sent into the world with a message from the forest.
"Some awareness campaigns use statistics. This one uses paint. Tania's brush holds more truth than any infographic we could design."
— Komorebi on the Postcards from Nature seriesThe Postcard from Nature is a collaboration between Komorebi and Forêt — a physical awareness tool that bypasses screens entirely. Tania's paintings on the front. A handwritten message on the back. A UAE camel stamp in the corner. Space for an address, a date, a name.
It is designed to be given. To sit on a desk. To travel in a pocket. To arrive unexpectedly in a letterbox and make someone stop for a moment and remember that the natural world is still here, still painting itself, still asking to be noticed.
It is also a product — available through both studios, and through Komorebi's future shop. Conservation as a gift you can hold.
Forêt is ongoing — growing as Tania's practice grows. Every new project she takes on becomes a new story the brand must be able to hold. Komorebi continues to hold it with her.
This is what it looks like when a design studio and an ecology studio share the same values, the same bloodline, and the same conviction that beauty and purpose are not opposites — they are the same thing, in different forms.