Name: Richard Roseman
Company Name: Richard Roseman Airborne Design
Position Within Company: Founder
Website: https://www.rraddesign.com/
Tell us a little about your background in the sector:
I have spent the last 33 years as an independent designer of private aircraft, predominately in Bizliner / VVIP & Head of State – but also top-tier Bizjets. I studied art & architecture at University and began my professional history as an architectural illustrator. Eventually that led to working with ID firms doing interior renderings. Eventually I was contacted by a Texas based defense contractor who had accepted a project from the president of Mexico for the interior retrofit of a B-727-200 to full VVIP as a presidential aircraft. I collaborated with the president’s designer generating the presentation renderings. During the final stages of design, the retained designer passed away unexpected. I was asked to step in and complete the project. As a kid, I had been obsessed with airplanes having built hundreds of models and R/C aircraft. So, it was an easy decision. I finished the project and my career path was set. I hung out my shingle as an independent aircraft interior designer under the name RWR Designs LLC (later RRAD Design). I used my skills as an illustrator to check and validate the aesthetic viability of my designs through design development eventually completing the final set of renderings for presentation to my clients. At the height of my career I maintained a full time staff of seven in a Dallas based studio. We have completed projects for foreign heads of state, billionaires and major corprations – worldwide. Today we conduct select projects via a core staff of three using a model similar to the film industry. On reviewing a design brief and ultimately accepting the project, we assemble an “A” team of core resources – talented, highly skilled colleagues with whom we have worked with over the decades. We conduct the project from opening concepts to finally delivery of the aircraft. When the project is done, we celebrate as old friends and then disband, going our separate ways until the next project.
My rich history and experiences as a designer of large privately owned aircraft has been incredibly rewarding and has also led to several yacht and residential projects including a palace in Mumbai.