Design & Computation Studio · Tokyo × Sydney

Alive on the surface. Intelligent underneath.

We work at the edge of what AI can reach.

Bespoke, generative websites & AI systems for healthcare, wellness, and the consciousness frontier.

01 — What we do

We build digital things that feel alive — and think.

  • Generative, motion-led websites.

    Concept-driven, hand-built, never templated. The motion isn't decoration; it carries the meaning.

  • AI systems, disciplined by structure.

    Not AI bolted on — AI governed. Deterministic where it counts, AI only where judgment lives, its failure modes designed out. (See: ATHANOR.)

  • Japanese–English, both ways.

    Transcreation, not translation. A real bridge between the two markets — language, culture, network.

  • Care.

    We don't build and vanish. Hosting, maintenance, evolution.

02 — Work

Every project here is a set of decisions, not a mood board. What we cut, why the quiet, what the motion is saying. Read the choices.

01

HIKARI CLINIC — KAP

a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program, made a place to trust

Calm where it counts. The mind, redrawn.

A patient-facing site for people who have tried antidepressant after antidepressant and still can't find the way out. Ketamine paired with psychological support — preparation, session, integration — not a drug handed over and forgotten. The treatment is off-label and self-pay and efficacy can't be promised, so every claim is caveated by design and the legal disclosures (unapproved-use, 限定解除 requirements) are built into the structure rather than buried. At the center sits the mandala — the mind itself. Press regenerate and it redraws: a random seed passed through filters we named archetypes, so no two are ever alike. Watching one form is a small rehearsal of what the therapy reaches for — a mind re-woven. And at its core, light: hikari, the clinic's name, and the psychedelic experience itself. Living motion as the single note of hope, disciplined so it soothes without selling.

Role: concept, design, front-end (generative art).

kap-jade.vercel.app

02

OIPI

a digital manifesto for the consciousness frontier

Objectivity you can trust. Life you can feel.

The founding site for the Okayama Institute of Psychedelic Integration — a field still widely misread in Japan, where the work has to hold a clinic's objectivity and the mind's raw fluctuation at the same time. So the register is silence and intelligence: noise stripped back to a minimal white, typography built by subtraction. Over it, the home graphic — a default-mode network drawn not as a textbook diagram but in ultra-thin lines layered by the hundred, until something digital takes on the warmth of a child's colored-pencil sketch. It rebuilds itself from zero on every visit, a little lopsided each time; the irregularity is the whole point. That plasticity is the argument — fixed cognition loosening, new circuits forming — the same release the therapy is reaching for. Psychedelic molecules drift across the surface. Individuality, diversity, regeneration, stated in code rather than slogans.

Role: concept, design, front-end (generative art).

www.oipi.jp

03

ATHANOR

a structural divination engine

The rules, made visible.

Seventy-eight tarot cards placed on the Tree of Life as one coherent structure. Computation holds the rules; AI narrates only at the edge. Every relationship on the board is classified deterministically, so the machine can't invent a resonance that isn't there — a real failure mode, designed out after we caught it. The deck itself — drawn card by card in Midjourney, then disciplined by hand into a single drafting system — is the deterministic core made visible.

Role: system design, engine, deck art direction. With Bangi Vanz Abdul (esoteric structure).

03 — Studio

Astrum Anima is a one-person design & computation studio, working across Tokyo and Sydney.

Behind it: Kiyo Nakano — designer and creative technologist, twenty years across global brand campaigns (Canon, Microsoft, Lufthansa, ANA), fintech (bitcoin.com), and bespoke healthcare. A designer's eye, an AI-native build, and enough front-end under the hood to direct, review and debug what the machine produces. Native Japanese; sixteen years in Australia.

We take on a small number of clients so each one gets the whole attention. When you write, you reach the person who builds the work.

Astrum — the star we steer by. Anima — soul, breath, the spark that animates.

04 — Contact

Let's build something alive.

Tell us what you're making. We'll come back with a plan, not a brochure.

hello@astrumanima.com