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Experiential Design / Exhibit Design / Brand Environment / Event / Retail
+ Developing design concept, narrative, visitor experience, customer journey interactive elements
+ 2D / 3D development across media for environmental graphic, video, light, sound
+ Spatial Design, visitor flow, compliance with ADA-code
+ Design detail development shop drawing level
+ Knowledge of Smithsonian Institution Guidelines for Exhibit Design and Display Case Construction
+ Project experience with Smithsonian Institution Approved List of Materials for Museum Display Cases
+ Mood boards / look-books to convey the atmosphere and feel of the environment
+ Team leading, working with account management, other designers and production
+ Creating presentation decks, design drawings and construction documents
+ Project managing, budget and time planning
+ Dealing with vendors & supervising completion
+ Very organized, hands-on and easy going, can build mock-ups
Architecture / Interior / Furniture / Residential and Commercial
+ Design development, test fit commercial layouts, floor plans, Elevation, RCP
+ Residential building addition & alteration, remodeling apartments, kitchen, bath room, closets
+ Project managing, budget and time planning
+ Materials and Finish selection
+ Creating design, details and construction documents, survey existing conditions
Project Management
+ Bidding / Negotiation
+ Budget and Time planning
+ Supervising completion
Software Skills
+ 2D/3D SketchUp, Rhino, Vectorworks, AutoCad
+ Photoshop, Adobe CC Suite
+ Excel, Google Suite, Powerpoint, Keynote
+ E-Commerce, Shopify, Mailchimp, Instagram and Facebook ad campaigns
About me, Daniel Steps
I have 10+years experience as versatile Art Director/ Senior Experiential Designer / Senior Exhibition Designer / Interior Architect of experiential and exhibition design projects; brand environment; retail; healthcare and furniture projects.
Living in New York, I am a native German, hailing from Berlin and have been licensed as Architect in Germany. My German background and training as Architect lends a distinct contemporary European touch to my design approach.
I also write as an author the regularly column “JFK” for the major German print architecture magazine “AIT- Architecture, Interior Design, Technical Solutions” about cultural events in New York.
Link magazine: www.ait-online.de
My photography: capturing the odd, rare and beautiful moments.
Please got to Instagram to find out more: www.instagram.com/daniel.steps
You can find my profile here:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/danielsteps
Education
Licensing as Architect, Registration in the Federal Chamber of Architects, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Master Degree Architecture, Specialism Interior
University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, Germany
Scholarship DAAD Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Writer work, Presentations, Academic Experience, Awards
09/2016
“Living Large in Tiny Homes and Apartments” Presentation
at New York Design Center
09/2015
“Small Spaces in Big City” Presentation
at New York Design Center
since 02/2013
Author of regularly column “JFK” for major German monthly print architecture magazine “AIT- Architecture, Interior design, Technical Solutions” about cultural events in New York
Link magazine: www.ait-online.de
2005-2012
Vice-President of the Berlin Chapter of "Bund Deutscher Innenarchitekten" BDIA ("Union of German Interior Architects/Designers)
2008
Project “Private Library” publication in book “BDIA-Best projects 2008”
2007
Guest lecturer at Faculty of Interior Architecture at University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, Germany
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