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ResolveDesigns was created in the heart of New York City on January 4th, 2004.
Over half a decade of disciplined growth, ResolveDesigns became synonymous with the premier design/build services and their expertly knowledgeable professional team.
In the years to follow; gracious repeat clientele, tenacious work ethic, a plethora of personal and professional mentorships, entrepreneurial business assistance, and an unwavering vision; brought ResolveDesigns to its new home in 2009 to Austin, Texas.
ResolveDesigns continues to provide award-winning designs, interiors and development planning services.
We specialize in a unique design vocabulary approach; enriched by modern, contemporary, tranquil and sustainable virtues of our design practice.
Passionate and attentive to global details; LEED©-accredited ResolveDesigns, collaboratively narrates each project with a keen vision and clear principle. We strive to deliver value for our discerning client’s aspirations; communicating an aesthetic quality of craftsmanship, materiality, budget, and sensitivity to create a successful product.
We concentrate this level of professional service by pioneering the project’s uniqueness, artistry, and opportunity; resolving its’ true splendor and grace.
Russell R. Collins
LEED-AP, AIA-A, IESNA, ULI
Owner / Design Principal
Thoughtful and innovative design solutions are the hallmark of Russell’s professional designs. As a designer, graphic illustrator, avid builder and inventor, he orchestrates a wonderful passion for details while delighting his client’s intuition with intriguing resolutions.
As owner and design principal of ResolveDesigns, he foresees design and project directives which have encompassed national and international projects. His portfolios of works and clients have a wide breadth, encompassing luxury residential, commercial, hospitality, boutique, retail, restaurant and mixed-use facility designs.
Focusing on the integration of space, light, nature and material; Russell’s attentive designs facilitate the client’s focus; achieving their project vision while honoring tight schedules and budgetary concerns. He is recognized for his ability to quickly understand the unique needs of owners; enhancing the aesthetic quality of the project, and offering the client a myriad of professional services, while acknowledging integrity and business acumen.
Russell’s acclaimed projects have included architectural directives for a New Zealand boutique hotel; a luxury-marketed NYC private residential loft conversion and a comprehensive lighting project for Immanuel Lutheran Church, in New York’s Upper East Side.
Other works, which included Russell’s achievement and professional successes are: the award-winning Local Union 580 Apprentice Training Facility in Long Island City: Design Award-2004- AIANY Chapter; the award-winning W-Union Square at Union Square, New York, the humbling experienced World Trade Center Viewing & Observation Deck, and the majestic Mohegan Sun Casino - Second Phase expansion in Uncasville, Connecticut; winner of several awards.
Russell graduated Cum Laude: Masters of Architecture :Texas Tech University, recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Professional Merit Award, and Outstanding Graduate Thesis Honor Award. He obtained full LEED-Accredited Professional status in New York City. Innovation, executive strategies, top-tier design experiences and team dedication have integrated him with his client’s culture and business objectives, providing a rare combination of skills.
His discerning strength and passion, artistic sense for the built environment, and total devotion to a detailed craft; is a true contribution for all.
Danielle Harvey
LEED-AP, RID, IIDA, NCIDQ
Director of Interiors
Danielle's world-traveled experiences, detailed eye for design and professional ability to drive any project is an asset to each design team that she is collaborating on.
She provides a sophisticated and brilliant palette, enveloped with luxury and warm interiors. Leaning more towards timelessness and elegance than trendy and hip, she always finds a way to bring a ‘wow’ factor into a space. This could be done with an amazing custom light fixture, a sparkling wall material or a gorgeous silk pillow. Bringing into spaces a small amount of ‘fun’, and an understated amount of ‘pop’ regardless of how subdued the interiors are is always the aim of Danielle’s design intent.
From her first hospitality position as an in house designer for a property owner and developer in West Palm Beach, FL, representing the client has always taken priority. Designing and managing projects that range in spectrum, from full service Marriott to Holiday Inn Express, she is accustomed to working closely with such important property teams, such as General Manager, Chief Housekeeper and Facilities Manager. Also, family run businesses are familiar to Danielle and she handles those with the same necessary care and respect.
Working closely with an owners’ budgets and priorities, she takes a functioning approach to the luxury world of design. A return on investment for a commercial property or an increase in quality of life in a residential space; our clients are the key elements to a projects’ success.
A graduate from Moore College of Art and Design, Danielle aspired her career and aquired a professional Interior Design License in the State of Florida, 2002. Growing up in the waters of the Florida Keys, Ship Design was a natural segue into Danielle’s career in hospitality design. Danielle’s most rewarding project was a Full Revitalization of a luxury cruise liner. Designing and overseeing every aspect and detail including: integrating new LCD TVs, streamlining millwork for a bulky stateroom, selecting appropriate and beautiful bedding, to redesigning a 3 story center ship feature wall. After months of budgeting, designing and coordinating with overseas contractors; a full month was spent in an Italian shipyard, sweating out the details, creating an amazingly marketable product that will increase the cruise liner's revenue for years to come.
Obtaining LEED Accredited Professional status in New York City, she is recognized for her ‘amazingly helpful’ team player instinct and ability to guide other team members to success; Danielle thrives along her fellow professionals. Considering everyone involved in the project as a ‘team member’ is key; from the owner and client, architect and developer, to the tile installer and drapery fabricator. The success of a project is dependent on this team and the management of their efforts, to make the end product look, perform and market amazingly.
Jeremiah Liverspots Apache Harvey Collins
German Short-haired Pointer, Non AKC, full breed mix
Director of Mirth
With over 3 AKC canine types and more than 400 liverspots upon his gleaming swarthy coffee coat; Jeremiah is the epitome of a true Native American mirth provider.
A complete task procrastinator, consummate napper and short attention span retriever; Jeremiah began his Austin luxe life from the lack-luster humble beginnings in Blanco County. A native woodsman, cactus dodger, prairie-grass sprinter and equine chaser; Jeremiah lived the rough life that a liver spotted hound demanded.
Unphased with proper wildfowl hunting etiquette and ill-prepared for long-term retrieval commissions, Jeremiah eschewed those trademark preconceptions to expertly hone his impressive sound-barrier breaking, tail-curling, speed sprinting finesse.
Accomplished only by the sheer momentum of kangaroo-shaped, spring-loaded hind quarters, the Mirth Provider unleashes the fury of uncontrollable hilarity and jaw-dropping wonder at his muscular display of inexplicable balance and power. Many patrons have fallen down in surprise and erupted in contagious glee and merriment to the mesmerizing blur of liver spots and micro-vapor trails tracing terra firma.
Known for his unwavering ability to awake rambunctiously and focus on his single goal in life; kibble, 'J-Spots' is a determinate disciplinarian for his passionate kibble objective.
