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Ricardo Roig

Fine Artist/ Gallery OwnerRoig Collection

New York City Area

Member Since April 2021

Skills

Fine Art
Visual Arts
Painting

About

Ricardo is a 37-year-old professional fine artist from Hoboken, NJ and creator of vibrant modern hand cut prints on paper. The Roig Collection is an Art Gallery located inside the W Hoboken Hotel in NJ, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan NYC. The Roig Collection showroom interior was designed by Jenny Madden with the aim of making a comfortable environment for all to be welcome to experience the Art. Roig and his team in collaboration wth the W Hoboken host a weekly mixer in the Art Gallery every Thursday 6-8PM featuring live music, local bites, complimentary drink and always the newest original Art by Ricardo. Ricardo creates full time growing his collection of hand cut prints as well as works on personal pieces, commissioned artworks, collages, paintings and murals. Roig's art has been mentioned in the NY Times and his most notable collectors include The W Hoboken, Canopy by Hilton Hotels, Amazon, New York University, Shake Shack, Universal Pictures, The City of Hoboken, and The Town of Westfield NJ. Outside of the studio Ricardo enjoys spending time with family and friends and traveling whenever possible. Roig has a wife of 7 years, and is a father of two young boys under 2 years old. For more information feel free to reach out to Info@RoigCollection.com.

Published content

11 Ways These Entrepreneurs Are Encouraging More Diversity in Their Industries

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Diversity isn't always visible, but the way you support it should be. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has always been a topic of concern in the world of work, but it has recently become a major priority for many organizations, with about 79% of them stating they’re planning to dedicate more of their budgets to DEI efforts in 2022. However, it’s likely that these companies will approach DEI in different ways. There are a myriad of ways to support diversity, equity and inclusion in business — especially as a business leader. To help give you some ideas of where you can start, 11 members of Rolling Stone Culture Council share the ways in which they’re working to create and encourage more diversity in their particular business niche or industry and why that’s so important to do.

10 Work Perks Companies Should Offer in the Battle to Attract and Retain Employees

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It's 2022, and employees' expectations have changed with the times. As the world has changed in the past couple of years, so too have employees’ expectations about their work. Employees are putting their personal fulfillment and work-life balance first, which for many has meant changing roles, jobs or even entire career paths. But as the exodus of employees continues, many companies are left wondering how to retain their employees or attract new ones to take their place. Below, a panel of Rolling Stone Culture Council business leaders offer a list of perks they believe companies will need to offer if they want to improve their employee retention and gain the interest of new talent.

Nine Ways These Entrepreneurs Are Leveraging Tech to Succeed in Their Niche

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By using tech intentionally, you can improve your business and the niche in which it operates. Technology at its best serves as a helpful aid to businesses, entrepreneurs and everyday people looking to improve the way they function day to day. But simply using technology won’t affect much change. Those who really succeed are those who know how to leverage technology intentionally, incorporating it into thoughtful practices that could eventually turn into innovation for their business or even their industry as a whole.  Below, a panel of Rolling Stone Culture Council members share some of the ways in which they’re leveraging technology to improve the success of their businesses in their space.

How These Entrepreneurs Use Technology to Enhance Their Everyday Business Practices

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The latest tech isn’t just for your average consumer. In the modern world, it's not just consumers who use wearables, apps or software to better their lives. Entrepreneurs and business leaders are also able to leverage new technology to enhance their business practices and ultimately improve their everyday work. Whether it’s an easy-to-use software program or app, or a culture-wide adoption of technology to meet a growing need, tech solutions have the capability to change the way a business (and its people) function in a meaningful way. Below, a panel of Rolling Stone Culture Council members each share one way they use technology to better their businesses.

Trying to Better Your Branding? 12 Companies That Really Nailed It

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These brands are great examples of how to tell your story right. Effective branding occurs when a consumer can think of a company and an image immediately comes to mind. These companies can evoke certain feelings and produce certain thoughts in customers’ minds all while telling a story well enough to convince those customers they need that product or service. All of these elements are what make a brand memorable, and to achieve that status for your company, you’ll need to study other successful brands. To help you, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council shared a few examples of brands that really nailed their respective stories and how they did it.

Nine Pandemic-Era E-Commerce Trends That Need to Stick Around a Bit Longer

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These popular trends may have enough staying power to last well into the future. While the Covid-19 pandemic has had its fair share of negative effects, it has also been responsible for a number of positive cultural shifts, especially in the e-commerce space. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing forced consumers online and caused companies to pivot, adapt or fail — and that meant major digital changes were made to the traditional shopping experience.  But while many business owners (and customers) are ready to get back to normal, nine leaders from Rolling Stone Culture Council list some of the pandemic-era e-commerce trends they think will stick around for the foreseeable future and why they’ve been such valuable changes to the retail status quo.

Company details

Roig Collection

Company bio

Roig’s art has connected with collectors in Australia, Germany, London, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada, two collectors who work in Christie’s Auction House, ten pieces purchased by the Hoboken Historical Museum, published in Vellum Magazine which was distributed in an international tour including Art Basel in Miami, commissioned for 26 works by New York University Stern School of Business, commissioned for 5 works by Shake Shack for their NJ locations, published in Industry Magazine, Westfield Living magazine, noted in the New York Times, showcased work at the W Hotel on 49th & Lexington Avenues in NYC, commissioned by MGM Studios, invited to speak at World 50 executive assistant conference, and currently exhibits work in his two gallery spaces in Roig Collection at the W Hotel in Hoboken NJ & Roig Collection in Westfield NJ. Recently Roig has translated his unique process into one of a kind hand cut stencil murals with two large outdoor murals in Hoboken, NJ, a large interior mural in an Amazon warehouse in Woodbridge, NJ and an interior mural in the W Hotel Hoboken. Jersey City City Hall will be home to the next Roig mural and Westfield NJ is commissioning a large outdoor mural this September.

Industry

Art

Area of focus

Fine Art Creation
Original Art
Fine Art Gallery

Company size

2 - 10

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