Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Southern California, Steve received his degree in Product Design from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 2001. His experiences and success lie on research, ideation, concept generation, and various product design & development.
Steve has worked with various brands in different sizes as an in-house designer and as a design consultant past 20+ years. His 20+ years of design experience includes many domestic assignments, but also many foreign market assignments.
Some of the categories that Steve has designed include:
• Various Footwear Categories
• Logos / Graphic Design
• Accessories: hats, watches, socks, eyewear, body care, backpack, etc
• Marketing Piece Designs
FREELANCE / CONTRACT WORK AVAILABLE
Clients
Skills
Specialties
Experience
Creative Director at MOSA Enterproses/Dizm Eyewear
May, 2009 – December, 2010 Hermosa Beach, CA
Responsibiities:
- Eyewear Design
- Packaging Design
- POP Design
- Managed the designs/designers involoved in the design process
- Sourced out the factories and worked directly with the factories
- Traveled to far east for sample revisions and confirmation of the samples
- Attend the tradeshows
Senior Product Designer at Vans
November, 2003 – November, 2008 Cerritos, CA
Responsibiities:
- Designed the entire Vans winter footwear/Snowboard boot category from 2003 – 2006.
- Designed 90% of the line from 2006-2008 and managed the design team and the process
- Traveled to far east for sample revisions and confirmations
- Worked with sponsored-riders on their signature Models
- Attended sales meetings to receive the feedback from the market place
- Attended tradeshows
- Seasonal inspiration trips
Principal/Creative Director at CinnaDesign
Present Anaheim Hills, CA
- Branding
- Product Design
- Innovation
- POP
- Illustration
- Graphics / Logo
Product/Footwear Designer at Sole Technology
August 2001 – November 2003 Lake Forest, CA
Responsibiities:
- Managed the seasonal Emerica Footwear Designs
- Traveled to far east for sample revisions and confirmations
- Worked with sponsored-riders on their signature Models
- Attended sales meetings to receive the feedback from the market place
- Attended tradeshows
- Seasonal inspiration trips
- Helped out with Etnies and ES footwear and sandal designs
- 32 snowboard boot designs
Part Time Footwear Designer at K Swiss
July 2000 – January 2001 Westlake Village, CA
Responsibiities:
- Started out as a 3 month footwear intern but it was extended to another 3 month part time footwear designer.
- participated in seasonal footwear design projects.
- participated in finishline SMU footwear projects
- participated in Running/Lifestyle/other Athletic footwear category
Intern Footwear Design at K Swiss
May, 2000 – July, 2000 Westlake Village, CA
- Participated in seasonal footwear design projects
- Foot Action SMU projects
Education
BS in Product Design at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
1997 – 2001 Pasadena, CA
Major in Product Design
Minor in Entertainment Design
BA in Kinesiology at Occidental College
1992 – 1996 Eagle Rock, CA