Dallas Willman

Dallas Willman, IIDA, NCIDQ, SDID, enjoys both the design process and project management aspects of interior design, working closely with each client to meet their needs, timeline, and budget. Her comprehensive design skills, coordination skills, and experience in project management assist her in completing project requirements at the highest of levels while building client relationships and trust. She is passionate about sustainable design, inclusive design, and code compliance. The well-being of the occupant is at the forefront. It is her belief that people have complex physical, mental, and emotional needs, and our interior environments can either be detrimental or beneficial in allowing us to have a greater quality of life.

Her overall objective is to convey a client’s vision and image while supporting their health, safety, welfare, and humane experience. Her design solutions are founded within research, human-centered design strategies, and evidence-based methodologies. This helps her and her team identify, analyze, and synthesize information to generate holistic, creative, and contextually appropriate design solutions. Her enthusiasm, dedication, and persistence help to foster collaborative relationships, superior service, and creative solutions that ensure a successful project throughout the design process.

She has worked on a wide range of project types, building a diverse portfolio. In addition to her professional work, Dallas also instructed the next generation of Interior Designers at South Dakota State University within the Interior Design Program from 2016-2023. This experience is invaluable to Architecture Incorporated's clients, as she is able to apply her deep understanding of design analysis, history philosophies, innovations, trends, planning, documentation, and management to ensure clients are serviced to the highest level. 

"We shape our homes and then our homes shape us."

Winston Churchill

EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in Operation Management
  • South Dakota State University

• Bachelor of Science in Interior Design
  • South Dakota State University
     

CERTIFICATION:

• Council of Interior Design Qualifications Certificate #30304 (NCIDQ)
  
  

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT:

• Member, International Interior Design Association (IIDA) - Great Plains Chapter - South Dakota City Center
• Member, South Dakota Interior Designers (SDID)
• Member, Young Professionals Network of Brookings (Connect 2140)
• Member, Young Professionals Network of Sioux Falls
• Advisor and Establisher, IIDA South Dakota State University Campus Center (2021-2022)
• Member, IIDA City Center Advocacy Board (2021-2023)
• Past President, South Dakota Interior Designers (SDID)
• Past Vice President, South Dakota Interior Designers (SDID)
   

AWARDS:

• CityDesign Award of Excellence, Chopps Bar (2013 Greater Mankato Growth City Partnership Awards)
   

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT:

• Strategic Planning Committee Member, Brookings Country Club
• Architectural Chair, Teton Village Homeowners Association
• Graduate, Greater Mankato Growth Leadership Institute (2014)
• Past Vice President, Greater Mankato Growth Young Professionals
• Past Membership Chair, Greater Mankato Growth Young Professionals
• Committee Member, Raw Fusion Fashion Show, Mankato
• Volunteer, Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest, Mankato
• Participant, Community Education and Recreation
• Golf Instructor
  
  

SERVICES:

• Project Management: Programming, Interior Budgets, interior Contracts, project Schedules, Interior estimate take-offs, Interior Master Planning and Phasing
• Project Management: Documentation, data collection, existing condition verification
• Interior Space Planning and 3D conceptualization (renderings)
• Selection of Interior Building products, materials and finishes and contractual Specification
• Casework and Millwork Design
• Construction Documents and Interior Construction Administration
• Coordinating allied disciplines
• Interior Products, Materials, Finish and Branding Standards
• Development of Interior Wayfinding and Signage
• Systems Furniture Space Planning and Selection
• Procurement of Furniture and Finishes, Artwork, and Accessories
• Exterior Design Consultation