Designer & Entrepreneur
Creating products, brands and ventures.
The world of Steven Schenck
Design, development and entrepreneurship across objects, brands and technology.
Design statement
Ideas become relevant when they connect design, function and possibility.
Selected work
Products, brands and ventures developed under his own direction.
Furniture
Outdoor furniture made to stay outside all year: weatherproof, flame-safe and breathable, with covers made from 100% recycled fabric.
Furniture
Modular couches built around a pure foam core — light, easy to handle and easy to rearrange.
Digital Ventures
Nine2nine is an AI Growth Operating System. The same is true for 9to9.AI.
Brands
A young fashion brand, developed and designed end to end.
Digital Ventures
A web app for photo, video, communication and events.
Approach
Steven Schenck develops physical products, distinctive brands and technology-driven ventures. His work connects design, function and entrepreneurial thinking to transform ideas into relevant, scalable concepts.
Profile
Designer & Entrepreneur
I am not simply interested in new products. I am interested in why some ideas move people, why brands become relevant, and how a vision becomes a functioning business.
I work at the intersection of entrepreneurship, design and technology. I rarely think in isolated products, but in systems: from the first idea through product and business model to brand, communication and the experience that ultimately reaches people.
Entrepreneurship, design and technology
To me, design means far more than aesthetics — and it does not end with physical products.
Whether a piece of furniture, a digital product or software: good design must be understandable. It should provide orientation, reduce complexity and make things feel intuitive and natural to use.
To me, logical thinking and visuality are inseparable. No matter how technologically capable an application may be, if people do not intuitively understand how it works, I do not consider it truly well designed.
That is why I engage as deeply with proportions, materials and typography as I do with user guidance, interfaces, processes and the question of how complex technology can become a simple experience.
Design is not decoration to me. Design is part of the function.
I like to question what already exists. Not because everything has to be different, but because I want to know whether it could be simpler, more beautiful or more intelligent.
New technologies, especially artificial intelligence, open possibilities that were unthinkable only a few years ago. I am less fascinated by the technology itself than by what can be created with it — and how complex technology can be designed to offer people genuine value.
My strength lies in recognising connections early, bringing different disciplines together and developing a concrete product vision from an initially abstract idea.
I set high standards, especially for my own ideas. I question, discard, change and, if necessary, start again when the result is not yet convincing.
Because creating something new is not an end in itself for me.
“I want to create meaningful things that offer genuine value — and that people remember.”
