Roger Westerman, IDSA

Roger Westerman has nearly twenty years of experience as a designer.  His expertise includes all phases of the design process, including museum planning and program development, concept design, and digitally produced renderings and contract documents.  He founded Roger Westerman Design LLC in 1999 after leaving Edwin Schlossberg Inc. (1994-1999).

Roger has considerable expertise in the field of exhibition design, including interactive and interpretive exhibits, art and photography installations, and corporate exhibits.  Major clients include The American Museum of Natural History, The New York Public Library, The Franklin Institute, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Pfizer, Inc. 

As Senior Designer at Lebowitz, Gould Design from 1988 to 1993, Mr. Westerman designed architectural graphics and wayfinding systems for the Cherry Creek and Woodfield Malls, a vehicular and pedestrian wayfinding system for Downtown Brooklyn which is currently in use, numerous large scale architectural signs, including the “GE” at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.  He has designed environments, graphics, and lobby installations for Hertz Corp, Loews Hotels, Henri Bendel, Essex House, and many other corporate clients.

Roger won the 2005 Interior Design Magazine Future Furniture Contest with his chair, the Corocker.  He holds a patent for the chair and is currently marketing it in the U.S.  The chair was on view at the 2006 International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.

A native New Yorker, he was raised on the Upper West Side and educated at Collegiate School.  He holds a Bachelor in Industrial Design degree from Pratt Institute, having graduated with highest honors in 1988.  He also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1984, where he majored in Latin and Greek.  Roger studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome in 1982.

Roger has taught at Pratt Institute and has lectured at the Cooper Hewitt.  His work has been published in The New York Times, City Signs, Innovative Urban Graphics, by Gail Deibler, Interior Design Magazine, and How Magazine.  He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the American Association of Museums.