Meet John
John Robert Hatherly
The world is what you make of it
Founder | Creative Director
John Hatherly is a multidisciplinary designer, strategist, and artist exploring how creativity can help humanity evolve toward clarity, care, and connection. He leads Chamber, a socially conscious design and innovation studio, and hosts The Infinite Search, a media platform and field journal investigating what it means to live a meaningful life in an age of uncertainty.
Blending systems thinking with soulful curiosity, John brings a rare synthesis of analytical precision and creative empathy to his work. With a foundation in mathematics and economics, and over fifteen years at the intersection of strategy, design, and impact, he helps organizations—and the people behind them—translate complexity into understanding. His work spans brand architecture, narrative systems, and thought partnership for clients across science, culture, and social good.
Before founding Chamber, John spent a decade building brands and digital platforms for startups, nonprofits, and foundations. Today, his work is guided by a deeper pursuit: helping people and organizations design from the inside out—aligning their beliefs, behaviors, and identities around what truly matters.
John is also the founder of Sondwerk, his fine art practice, where he creates meditative works exploring impermanence, light, and the idea of “palliative care for the human race.” Across all his work, John’s throughline is the same: design as a spiritual and social act—a way to heal, reveal, and reconnect.A signatory of Clean Creatives and a 1% for the Planet member, John believes creativity carries both responsibility and possibility. His studio’s ethos reflects that belief: build with intention, create with empathy, and design for the world you want to live in.
John is currently traveling across America, working on the first print edition of The Infinite Search.
Blending systems thinking with soulful curiosity, John brings a rare synthesis of analytical precision and creative empathy to his work. With a foundation in mathematics and economics, and over fifteen years at the intersection of strategy, design, and impact, he helps organizations—and the people behind them—translate complexity into understanding. His work spans brand architecture, narrative systems, and thought partnership for clients across science, culture, and social good.
Before founding Chamber, John spent a decade building brands and digital platforms for startups, nonprofits, and foundations. Today, his work is guided by a deeper pursuit: helping people and organizations design from the inside out—aligning their beliefs, behaviors, and identities around what truly matters.
John is also the founder of Sondwerk, his fine art practice, where he creates meditative works exploring impermanence, light, and the idea of “palliative care for the human race.” Across all his work, John’s throughline is the same: design as a spiritual and social act—a way to heal, reveal, and reconnect.A signatory of Clean Creatives and a 1% for the Planet member, John believes creativity carries both responsibility and possibility. His studio’s ethos reflects that belief: build with intention, create with empathy, and design for the world you want to live in.
John is currently traveling across America, working on the first print edition of The Infinite Search.