Roger Westerman has over twenty years of experience as a designer.  His practice focuses on the conceptualization and design of immersive and interactive museum environments and experiences.  He has expertise in all phases of the design process, including master planning, concept sketches, graphic design, content research and writing, digitally and manually produced control drawings and renderings, and project management.  He founded Roger Westerman Design LLC in 1999, after leaving Edwin Schlossberg Inc. (1994–1999).  Prior to his work at Edwin Schossberg, he was a senior designer at Lebowitz/Gould/Design, a New York firm specializing in environmental graphics and product design (1988–1993).

 

Major clients include The American Museum of Natural History, The New York Public Library, The Franklin Institute, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Pfizer Inc.  Other clients include The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and The Prospect Park Alliance.

 

While at Edwin Schlossberg Inc., Roger was the lead exhibit designer for eleven facilities of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Program and project designer of the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island.  Other projects at ESI included the Museum of the Old Barracks in Trenton and the Idea Factory at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  Please click on the Projects link.

Mr. Westerman 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.  Mr. Westerman was a member of the design team for The Cleveland Avenue Time Machine, which won a 2008 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement.

 

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, graduating 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. 

 

Mr. Westerman teaches 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, and How Magazine.  He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the American Association of Museums. ­  A committee member of the Park Slope Civic Council, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he advocates for bicyclist safety and coaches youth soccer.