Rizen Creative Ideas, advertising & design for underdog brands

Reasearchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine released a study in the journal Addiction.
They’re trying to figure out if mentions of alcohol brands in rap songs constitutes advertising. Why? Teens listen to rap music and “It is illegal to direct advertising at anyone under the legal drinking age of 21 in the U.S.,” [...]

Do you have share criteria when it comes to social media or email?
Does something need to make you laugh out loud, cry or cause a moment of introspection before you share it?
If you had to pick only one what would it be?
We had to share this gem with you. It made us cry-laugh. It’s so [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Kids are back in school, the weather is lovely and it’s Art in the Park weekend. Whatever you define as “art”, you will find at Art in the Park.
On Friday, while the cats (Baker and Reynolds) were away, the mice (Katie, Jason, John and Jin) went to the park to [...]

In 2009 The Nature Conservancy commissioned ten designers from fashion, product, architectural and industrial design to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials from a specific region where the Conservancy works. The result - Design for a living world. Currently the exhibition is at The Field Museum in Chicago and features Hailey, Idaho.
Dutch [...]

One of the great pleasures of working in this business is that you get to surround yourself with smart, interesting people.
Bethany Hersey (Lindstrom when we first met her) is a great example. She was a tremendous glue here at Rizen, ensuring that projects got launched properly, the kitchen remained stocked and things just generally got [...]

Because books outside of bookshelves take up a lot of space.

Where you live can say a lot about you. In Rizen’s case, we live in a nearly 100-year old warehouse building right in the heart of Downtown Boise. Known as the Foster’s Warehouse Building, it housed Foster’s Warehouse Furniture for the better part of the 20th Century before its closing in the 1990s. For years, a neon [...]

Tuesday afternoon Bethany was walking through The Grove near the Wells Fargo building and noticed a lonely little duckling frantically running around squeaking. There was no mother duck or little siblings anywhere to be seen, and things got really scary when Darius (the name we’ve given him) waddled himself into Main Street, quite nearly getting [...]

Once a month our team participates in a program we call “Lunch, Lounge & Learn.”
This month, we took a little field trip to Bindery Services located in Garden City. Founded in 1982, their focus has specifically been on specialty printing, bindery and a variety of effects that can be applied to paper.
Our interest in them [...]

Let’s all welcome Mr. John Briggs to the Rizen team! John brings wide-ranging experience in interactive design and programming to the team. He also dedicates his talents as part of the AIGA Idaho board. Of course, there’s a lot more to this guy than just his design career…but you’ll have to talk to him about [...]