Over the weekend, Rich talked at The Design of Business | The Business of Design conference about social equity and inclusion, and the role of design in social impact. The conference was hosted by Design Observer and AIGA | the professional association for design.
From the start of our journey working for social impact, the plan has been to figure out how to contribute to more and more impact. The goal was to start to break the code in one location and see if and how we can systematize [...]
We had fun at the Connecticut Art Directors Club awards last night and are proud to have been recognized for our work on: Hartford Fashion Week promotional imagery Boondoggle Brewing Company brand design ReCenter (formally the Discovery Center) brand re-design The Community Foundation of Eastern [...]
Rich has been working with legislators on a couple of social equity bills, including the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act and today's passing bill on pay equality. A key part of this bill is about preventing potential employers from asking about past salary. Statistics [...]
Rich has been working on the AIGIA Design for Democracy initiative: Building Community Power. You can read what he has to say about the intersection of community engagement, civic engagement, power, and design in this interview with Design Observer, with Brian Miller of Nonprofit VOTE, [...]
We are happy to share that CO:LAB’s principal, Richard Hollant, has joined the Board of Directors at Billings Forge Community Works. A little about Billings Forge: they are a Hartford-based nonprofit with the mission to provide job training, food access, and sustainable social enterprises to [...]
