Rizen Creative Ideas, advertising & design for underdog brands

Stopping power. A definable personality. Recognition amongst the clutter.
These were a few recommendations we gave our client Custom Home Solutions. Ground breaking? No, but they were fundamentals that were necessary for a great company that was not getting the credit it deserved. Couple these recommendations with simple research on the company’s target market and [...]

Along the way, a teacher/educator probably had an impact on your life. It may have been as simple as an encouraging word or a nudge in the right direction.
With all the political discourse about education the folks that do it day in, day out–at times–are easily forgotten.
That’s why we created a Facebook App along with [...]

Now that snow’s flying at Southwest Idaho resorts, it’s the perfect time to take your best shot in the snow and enter Southwest Idaho’s Winter Breakaway photo contest. Or, if you’re headed to the Boise airport, find Southwest Idaho’s sign near Concourse B (it’s hard to miss), take a seat in our chair, snap a photo [...]

Divorce happens. Sad, but true. Rizen is pleased to be working with a Boise company that is making the entire process less damaging to children and families: Family Architects.
Family Architects has developed a divorce mediation process that makes amicable not only possible, but also affordable.
Our work for the company includes consulting, website design, product development, [...]

This holiday season, advertising is at every turn. Chances are, at this very moment, you are navigating through an email inbox bloated with messages of 40% sweaters from Eddie Bauer or the latest Groupon for a full body waxing at 50% off. You turn on your radio and hear ad after ad promoting sales and [...]

Since 2006 we’ve picked an elementary class to design our holiday cards. We’re always amazed at the budding talent. Frankly it makes our job of picking four finalists hard but it gives us a great opportunity to support art in education. Here’s how it works:

A school volunteers to have a drawing contest.
Rizen selects a [...]

Rizen was fortunate enough to work with Creative Terrain on some new work announcing Stinker Stores‘ acquisition of several Alberstsons‘ fuel centers. A big part of that news is that you can now redeem your Albertson Fuel Rewards at all Stinker Stores. Pretty cool.
Well, as part of the (mostly point of sale) campaign, Stinker Stores [...]

We recently overhauled Flatbread Community Oven’s website with one goal in mind. Simplify.
Quite a simple goal but there are three things that people usually want when they visit a restaurant website:
Location
Menu(s)
Contact
Everything else is great but rarely gets used. People want to get in and get out…simply.

We’re thrilled to get the opportunity to create some recent P.O.S. material for an Idaho icon: Stinker Stores. We teamed with Boise-based creative Dusty Schmidt to help promote that the fuel store chain will now redeem Albertsons Gas Rewards. In other words, you just shop at Albertsons to earn Fuel Rewards points that you can [...]

Big thanks to Rizen’s own Ron Baker on seven iconic, original pieces of theme art for Ignite Boise. As Ron tells it, the latest one created after reflecting on the shear number of presentations that have been given at Ignites. 6 events X 15-16 presos = 100ish talks.
His hope was to inspire a new batch [...]