Steffi Waltinger-Kalil, Principal

The whimsical. The colorful. The theatrical. These are among the many elements that Steffi Waltinger-Kalil brings to the Atelier team. A lifelong student of fine design, she grew up in Jena, Germany, and went on to study graphic design in Dessau at the renowned Bauhaus design college, home of Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. Soon, Waltinger-Kalil was creating marketing materials for the Bauhaus Foundation, the school’s sister organization.

By the time she earned her degree in 1998, she already had established a stable of clients. She had also collaborated on numerous projects with her future husband Jef Kalil. A year later, the couple moved to New York to launch Atelier and start a family. Since that time, the company has evolved from a creative two-person design boutique into the innovative multimedia branding company you are reading about right now. As for the family—their son Marlo was born in 2005.

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