By Nicole R. Roberts, Creative Lead at Kolar Design
This summer I returned back to my alma mater to team teach Design Systems, a junior-level experiential graphic design course. We guide students to research social issues within local communities to co-create wayfinding systems and strategic placemaking design.
Kolar Design
Kristy Sieve is a Client Lead at Kolar Design in Cincinnati, OH.
Kristy Sieve has been with Kolar Design since 2014. BEfore Joining Kolar Design she worked at BHDP Architecture as graphic Designer.
SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's 4-6 events a year. Starting from 2014, these videos are available for viewing for members for free. If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources.
SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's 4-6 events a year. Starting from 2014, these videos are available for viewing for members for free. If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources.
MIAMI — During the 2017 SEGD Conference Experience Miami, winners of the 2017 SEGD Achievement Awards were announced and celebrated among the largest annual gathering of members of the experiential graphic design community. Since 1987, has honored the individuals, companies, and institutions whose work has significantly advanced the environmental and experiential graphic design fields. The 2017 honorees and awards are as follows.
2017 SEGD Fellow
During the 2017 SEGD Conference Experience Miami, winners of the 2017 SEGD Achievement Awards were announced and celebrated among the largest annual gathering of members of the experiential graphic design community. Since 1987, has honored the individuals, companies, and institutions whose work has significantly advanced the environmental and experiential graphic design fields.
2017 SEGD Distinguished Member Award: Kelly Kolar, President + Founder, Kolar Design
The Eighth Annual Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit took place May 22–24, 2017, at the Cleveland Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Bill Thiemann is the Managing Director, Creative Services at Kolar Design
He is a branding and marketing communications expert with diverse CPG, service brands and agency experience. Bill Thiemann has a proven track record of building enduring, trust-based client relationships which result in consistent business growth.
For Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, art is an integral part of its mission to improve outcomes and create positive experiences for patients and their families. But CCHMC’s approach is unique and holistic. With the help of Kolar Design, the hospital engages with patients and the community to create art that promotes healing, supports the CCHMC brand and is fully integrated with interiors and architecture. Read Part 3 in our Art and Healing in Healthcare Environments series.
Today’s design landscape poses vastly different challenges than ever before, but also new and exciting possibilities for practitioners willing to be agile, adaptive, and opportunistic. SEGD’s first-ever Business of Design Summit—February 19 in Denver—focused on the hottest issues in design business and how innovative thinkers are shaping their practices for the future.
Kelly Kolar: Evolving the Value Proposition in Design Practice
Kelly Kolar has grown her company from a solopreneur design studio to an international, multi-million dollar company providing strategy as well as design service offerings. Always looking to the future and evolving her firm, Kelly will be a featured speaker at the SEGD Business of Design Summit February 19 in Denver. Join her and learn about raising your design offering to a strategic level!
Kolar Design (Cincinnati) swept the EGD category during the 18th annual Cincinnati Design Awards celebration November 14, winning four awards for its work for the Contemporary Arts Center and Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
How can design, and specifically EGD, support and enhance the healing mission in today’s complex healthcare environments?
SEGD Well: Healthcare Innovations Workshop, held last week in Cincinnati, set out to find the answers to that question.
So what are the answers? Well, you kind of had to be there. But we’re willing to share a peek at what you missed.
Clue: It’s much bigger than wayfinding or mobile apps.
SEGD Well Conference Comes to Cincinnati
Design leaders gather at SEGD Well conference to transform patient experiences through innovation and branding
Co-chair of the SEGD Cincinnati Chapter
A quick thinker and multi-tasker, Hannah has a natural ability to handle the ever-changing requirements her projects bring - from client design concept through installation, to creating marketing materials, presentation documents and maintaining MSA brand standards.
2017 SEGD Distinguished Member, Past Board member of SEGD (2004-2011), President of Kolar Design
Kelly Kolar is president, founder and chief creative officer at Kolar Design. Founding Kolar Design in 1990, Kelly Kolar set herself apart as a creative talent, using her love of design and understanding of the human element to transform built environments. The firm creates impactful, branded experience at the intersection of people and place.
Design Manager Kolar Design Cincinnati
Connect with Mary on LinkedIn or view more of her work at Kolar Design
Highlight: SEGD Well Healthcare Innovation Workshop
Giving Thanks at Mercy Health
At this Cincinnati health network, the message of compassionate care permeates the healing environment, from architecture to signage and donor recognition. Learn more about Mercy Health and how they're innovating the patient experience at SEGD Well: Healthcare Innovation Workshop March 20-21 in Cincinnati!
Building P&G’s In-House Brand
At the world’s largest consumer products company, EGD is helping drive the evolution of a corporate brand.
Joell Angel-Chumbley received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati, Magna Cum Laude, in 2000; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH, Magna Cum Laude in 1992. Joell Angel-Chumbley has been active in the professional art and design community since the early 1990’s. Her work spans the disciplines of visual art, print and environmental graphic design and public art.
