Olha Romaniuk
Architecture & Design Writer

Olha Romaniuk

Interior and exhibition designer & architecture writer.

About

Olha Romaniuk is a creative writer and designer with international experience in interior and exhibition design, residential, hospitality projects, and art installation. At Gallagher & Associates Asia, she has managed design projects including River Safari Singapore, Keppel Centre for Art Education, and 50 Years of Singapore Design exhibition. Having written for several architectures, art, and design publications including Dwell, Design Anthology, Interior Design, Hospitality Design, and Habitus, her strong experience extends to writing feature travel stories and reviews for lifestyle websites and the in-flight magazine for Garuda Indonesia airline.

Employment

3 roles
Mar 2013 - Present 13 years 1 month
Writer
Independent

Olha has written for several architecture, art, and design publications as well as lifestyle and travel websites.


As a writer for Hospitality Design:

  • Covered the best designer hotels around the world and their design as it relates to the context of the cities they are located in. 

As a writer for Design Anthology:

  • Covered the latest design stories and projects for the Hong Kong-based Design Anthology, including the coverage of most recent design trends, rising and established designers and architects, and bespoke projects around the world.

As a writer for Palace:

  • Researched, assembled, and wrote content for feature stories. Topics include design and lifestyle stories, property reports, and interview with developers and designers.

As a writer for Singapore Tatler Home:

  • Wrote design stories for Singapore's leading luxury design and lifestyle publication. Stories include editorial pieces like 50 Leading Figures in Singapore Design in time for Singapore's 50th year of independence celebration.

As a writer for Interior Design:

  • Wrote pieces about design news.
  • Interviewed architects from all over the world.
  • Provided editorial write-ups on new architecture in Southeast Asia.

As a writer for Colours: 

  • Provided monthly contributions to the Travel Trends, Handcrafted, Automotive and Flavours sections of this prestigious in-flight magazine and occasionally contribute write-ups to the Art section of the publication.

As a writer for IndesignLive, Cubes, and Habitus Living: 

  • Pitched, wrote, and edited stories for IndesignLive.sg and Cubes magazine. Work included research, image and photo acquisition, interview set-up and coordination, story writing, and fact-checking.
May 2017 - Nov 2018 1 year 6 months
Studio Manager & Project Manager
Gallagher & Associates Asia

Gallagher & Associates Asia is a design firm specializing in museum master planning, museum exhibition design, wayfinding/signage, and museum branding. 

  • Spearheaded small to large experience, museum and theming projects and managed design teams.
  • Created experiential environments that merge architectural, thematic, graphic, and multimedia elements to deliver unforgettable experiences.
Nov 2012 - Jun 2016 3 years 7 months
Senior Exhibit Designer
Gallagher & Associates Asia
  • Led exhibition and graphic design teams to deliver complete design solutions for immersive and thought-out spatial experiences. 
  • Integrated branding, spatial, interior and exhibition design and collaborated with fabricators, clients, and specialists from different disciplines. 
  • Managed the River Safari Singapore project, a 2 -year design project at Wildlife Reserves Singapore. Responsibilities included thematic exhibition design, branding development, and integration, user experience analysis, coordination with clients (education department), zoologists, contractors, and fabricators.
  • Oversaw the Keppel Centre for Art Education project, a 3-year design and build project at National Gallery Singapore that involved the development of a brand new arts and education center. Responsibilities included new branding development and integration of NGS branding into the new space, space planning, exhibition design and collaboration with local artists, activity design, and conceptual development of visitor experience.
  • Developed the 50 Years of Singapore Design exhibition, a 3-year exhibition at the National Design Centre that included branding and design development based on curatorial approach, design of activity packs, and web page development. 

Education

Sep 2007 - May 2010 2 years 8 months
Master's Degree, Architecture
University of Cincinnati
Sep 2002 - May 2006 3 years 8 months
Bachelor's Degree, Architecture
University of Pennsylvania

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