P R I N C I P A L S

Richard Lee Dickinson

President + Creative Director

Richard Lee Dickinson is innately an artist and designer. He has known all his life that art and design are his passions. It was no surprise that Dickinson studied at the Rhode Island School of Design | RISD, where he received his BFA.

Dickinson went on to become Vice President / Design Director of WCVB TV Channel 5 in Boston. To this day, he is the only person to have had this position at a local TV station in the USA. For fifteen years Dickinson oversaw all branding efforts at WCVB including "made for TV movies," national identity programs, advertising campaigns and major exhibits.

Today, he is the President | Creative Director of Dickinson Lab, a communications design firm. Dickinson has made significant contributions to the international design community. As former President of the Broadcast Designers Association, Dickinson has been recognized for bringing about a restructuring and financial stability to this national organization. He is also the recipient of more than 100 awards for print, video, presentations, and online design work.

Before leaving the broadcast arena, Dickinson received seven Emmy Awards for creative design and direction. His work has been published numerous times and has exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. Dickinson is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts | AIGA, serves on the President's Council of RISD in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of Leadership Councils of numerous non-profit organizations in Boston.

Ann Canas

Project Strategist + Wordsmith

Ann Butler Canas credits her dad, a university professor and linguist, with instilling an extensive vocabulary almost before she could talk. So of course she majored in English at Brown University where she received her BA.

An instinctive communicator, Ann excelled in her early career as an on-camera television broadcaster. Her Emmy Award winning work for Post-Newsweek Broadcasting led to anchoring and hosting for WABC-TV in New York, and finally to on-air correspondent duties in New York for CBS Sports Network Television.

Following her TV career, Ann combined a long-standing love of modern design and architecture with her communications skill set, and went on to work in business development, branding, and marketing in the design and real estate industries. As Creative Marketing Director for a Denver real estate developer, Ann was responsible for overall design direction on a $30 million,125,000 sq. ft. landmark lofts project in the heart of downtown Denver. She worked with Dickinson Lab to develop new brand imaging and influential strategic marketing for the project. Her many collaborations with Dickinson also include a highly successful re-branding, advertising, and public relations campaign that led to the lucrative sale of one of Miami’s largest luxury real estate brokerages.

Ann’s enthusiasm for great design continues in her current role as Project Strategist + Wordsmith for Dickinson Lab. Her innate way with words and ideas along with keen design and visual acumen, make her a key Dickinson team member who creatively relates to and elevates every project. Ann is passionate about protecting the oceans, service, sharing, and faith.