Calm living design for your everyday.
Life-changing, simple solutions to create calm and productive spaces.
Airis Mer is a lifestyle company offering design services, workshops and calming products for the new hybrid environment.
Everyone deserves to be calm amidst the chaos of life. Maybe you want to transform your home to achieve calm living. Maybe you want to have a more creative workspace. Or maybe both. Whatever it is, we are here to help.
Calm Living.
Release Date: March 7th, 2023
Calm Living is a guide to making simple design changes to feel more inspired, clear, and energetic. The book is rooted in design thinking and the content inspired by how different environments, cultures, norms, and rituals foster deliberation and calm. There is no single aesthetic of calm, but there are underlying principles that can empower anyone to create spaces that bring out the best in themselves and others. You don’t have to be a trained design to make simple but impactful changes to your space and to embrace new habits for calm.
This book offers an introduction to these foundational principles of designing a calm space—whether it’s a small apartment, an office, or a large house. The goal is to help you create an enviroment that offers peace and clarity (even amid chaos), enables your mind to flow, and gives you room to learn and grow effortlessly. It isn’t about sparse white rooms where everything is in its place; it is about filling your space with intention. Calm is not static.
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ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES
Strategies For Creating a Calm Environment at Home and at Work in a New Hybrid World.
Our online workshops are filled with helpful tips for creating organized, productive spaces, making it a must-have for the anyone who wants to make easy but impactful changes. You can pick the advice that works for your space, whether you’re a renter, a homeowner, or someone looking to improve an office space.
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Designing for Calm.
How To Be the Designer of Your Space Even If You’re Not a Trained Designer.
In this workshop, I’ll teach you the foundational principles of creating spaces that nurture the body, mind, and soul. What makes a calm environment? I offer three primary requirements: a) it soothes the senses, b) it promotes balance, c) it makes life easier. You will walk away from this workshop with confidence to transform any space into a calming environment.
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Starting From a Clean Slate.
How To Make Simple Changes To Your Space and Offset the Emotional Weight of Anxiety, Sadness or Stress.
In this workshop, I’ll discuss the effect of clean air, proportionality and the clutter/empty space ration on your breathing room. You will learn how to turn a small corner into an oasis of calm and rejuvenation, how to conduct an “energy audit” to evaluate how a room makes you feel, and organize furniture to create spaces where you do your best thinking.
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The Colors and Balance of Calm.
How To Add Simple Visual Touches To Improve Your Mood and Encourage Positivity.
In this workshop, I will reveal how to use light, color, sound, furniture, and more for a profound impact on your mind, body, and spirit. This is an essential workshop for creatives, design enthusiasts, at-home workers, and anyone looking for simple, proven ways to reduce stress and embrace joy in any type of space.
Olga.
Olga Trusova is a renowned and respected design leader, educator and management consultant. She founded the lifestyle company Airis Mer to help individuals and companies transform their spaces into the most calm and productive environments using proven design methods and practices.
Olga was schooled in the principles of design at Stanford University. She has collaborated with a range of major organizations on design strategy, including Google, Starbucks, Nordstrom, JetBlue, AAA, IDEO, SFMOMA, and Kaiser Permanente. She has also taught design thinking at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, and the General Assembly.
Olga is originally from Ukraine, and now splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
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All speaking engagements are tailored to the needs of the client, leaving all attendees feeling motivated, inspired and with actionable tools they can use to improve the quality of their lives both at work and at home.
