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Millennium Falcon Guitar
Minimalist Famous Album Covers
And, while you’ve probably seen it, it’s worth sharing if you haven’t…
Guy Getting Totally Stoked Over a Double Rainbow:

Ignite Boise | 05 is set for October 21, 2010. And like every event, the organizers try to mix things up a bit in the interest of constant improvement.
This time around that includes the way we are handling sponsorships. In addition to getting their logo featured and other online love, IB|05 sponsors will also be [...]

We’re very excited to announce that Jin You has joined the Rizen Creative team as graphic designer. Jin is an interesting guy. Not only is he a passionate designer, he is also a very talented photographer and world traveler (we’ll let him tell you the stories).
Jin comes our way via Boise State University and the [...]

Designer-designed toys.
Machined aluminum toy cars.
Innertube lamps, belts and more.
Beautiful axes. As in chop chop.

CONGRATULATIONS to Katie & Matt on the birth of their newest addition:
“Atticus James Meyers” – 9 lbs. + 2 oz. – Born 6/10/10 at 5:00pm

Though both Jeff and Ron had done the Ignite Boise 101 intro presentation, nobody from Rizen had done a presentation on their own topic…until IB|04. Here’s the first: Jeff’s talk on Mind Lies — how our mind conspires against us.

Mind Lies: How our brains conspire against us. Jeff Reynolds from The Arbiter on Vimeo.

Sometimes we have a love/hate relationship with progress. Particularly when it comes to a person, whom we’ve grown to respect deeply, decides to leave our team.
That happened this week when Art Director Katie Shamberg bid Rizen adieu. She’s moving back to Coeur d’Alene–back home–to pursue her design career.
We’ll miss you, Katie. Rock on…

We’re not fans of RFP’s.  It’s no secret. But when the crew at Red Sky Public Relations approached us to team up on the Idaho Department of Labor RFP, we were intrigued.  We saw it as an opportunity to A) work with a firm that we really like and respect; and B) help an (not-so-obvious) [...]

Capital City Communicators held their first annual IMPACT Awards banquet last Friday night. (IMPACT stands for Idaho Marketing, Public Relations and Communication Talent.)
It was a very nice event with great food, great music and great networking with some of the best marketing and communications people in the business.
We were also very honored to walk away [...]

Ignite Boise|04 is done. It was a success. Like all of these events, IB|04 was unpredictable, raucous, and a unique event even among unique events.
The entire organizing committee owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the 15 brave souls who presented. It takes a lot of guts to get up on stage in front of [...]