Westwoods Design LLC

With over 30 years’ experience as a designer, Ken Daniel has worked on a wide range of projects from museums, art collections, and theme parks to corporate offices, libraries and academic buildings. With a fine arts background, Ken contributes a high degree of artistry to his projects with an interest in unusual lighting applications and custom luminaire design. Ken’s past projects include his work at Universal’s Islands of Adventure Theme Park, where he managed the design and fabrication efforts for the themed lighting throughout the park, several projects for the University of Notre Dame, notably the Eck Center, one of the largest college bookstores in the country (IES award), the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, the First Republic Bank at Time Warner Center in New York City and News Corporation’s Global Forum 2000 event at the Regency Hotel on Wall Street. While a principal designer with Visual Terrain in Los Angeles, Ken’s projects included the street and area lighting for Dubai Festival City, an urban mixed-use community in Dubai, UAE, the Americana at Brand project, a dynamic retail and residential property that encompasses an entire city square block in downtown Glendale, California and a collaboration with designer William Warfel on a project in Cusco, Peru designing and directing the installation of the lighting for a new museum of artifacts from Machu Piccu. Ken attended Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and in Rome and began his career as a museum exhibitions designer and art consultant. He was introduced to lighting design and the International Association of Lighting Designers when he met LD Jeffery Milham on a corporate project in 1983. In 1990 he established himself as senior level designer with Walt Disney Imagineering where he supervised the design, fabrication and installation of hundreds of custom lighting luminaires in parks from Tokyo to Paris.