Thirteen students took part in a Design Thinking Workshop at Kolar Design. Students were taken through a brand development exercise with the Kolar team of designers. They were asked to think about what the CATS brand was and was not. They were asked for input on current imagery used on the CATS website and then used shoes as a metaphor to describe four categories of stakeholders.
Kolar Design is the recipient of the 2017 Goering Center Family & Private Business Finalist Award for Private Businesses with fewer than 25 employees. This annual honor is bestowed upon only two companies and exemplifies what family and private business is and can be.
Kelly Kolar, president and founder of Kolar Design, proudly accepted the prestigious SEGD (Society for Experiential Graphic Design) Distinguished Member award during the Experience Miami Conference held June 8-10 at Lowes Miami Beach Hotel.
It was an exhilarating experience to speak at the 2017 SEGD Conference in Miami. Being tasked with the topic of “Learning from Failure” could have been daunting, but the content was wide open and allowed for three designers with three completely separate experiences to share a common ground.
To fulfill our hunger for knowledge and seek out innovation, we attended the Digital Signage Expo again this year. Our team recognizes that the landscape of design (and really everything in our lives) is changing with the advancement of technology.
Kolar Design proudly accepted three prestigious SEGD awards at the 20th annual Cincinnati Design Awards (CDAs) event held locally at the Woodward Theater on November 11.
On June 8th Joell Angel-Chumbley represented kolar and went to SEGD’s Academic Summit in Seattle. She was accompanied by UC senior Jordan Sowecke and Jeff Everson from Daktronics. The Academic Summit is a free and open event to educators, students, and the design community.
2015 was a banner year for Kolar Design. On the surface it was our 25th year in business. 25 years that Kolar Design has focused on harnessing the power of design as a transformative expression in built environments. A legacy of work that combines design and understanding of the human element to find new and better ways to connect people, places and brands.
