Richard Sluijs (founder RichLab) is a versatile and committed graphic- and spatial designer / illustrator / painter and planner with own studio in The Hague. Winner of the Golden European Design Award in 2015 for self-initiated impressive book about the suffering caused by the financial crisis and nominated for the Van Lanschot Art Prize 2015 of the book derived 'Wall of Shame'.

Enjoys to make people think, but also cautions fluffier projects not involving him with some tongue-in-cheek gives the world literally and figuratively more color in the form of paintings, posters, T-shirts or a tennis ball tree.

Spiritual father of the Schilderswijk murals plan and the 'Royal Art Force P.O. Also a collector of large collection accidentally created paint stains in the public space (collected in his forthcoming book 'Accidental Twomblies).