Common Object Studio

Common Object Studio is a product design practice with studios in Baltimore and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was founded by Fernando Ramirez, who comes from environmental design, and engineer Justin Beitzel, and turns emerging technologies and regenerative materials into products built to work for the people who use them and for the systems that make them.

The work spans industrial design, CMF, design for manufacturing and circular strategy, with material and supply-chain mapping as a core service. Projects include the OkaTerra furniture line, made with Carbon Smart Wood from fallen trees in Baltimore and with waste wool from local farms, and a collaboration with Haworth on the Understory acoustic system.