Rinzen

Since we published our Vis-Ed piece on Brisbane, Australia-born design collective Rinzen, the group’s members have scattered themselves worldwide. Adrian Clifford remains at home base, while Karl Maier suns himself in Sydney, Craig Redman gets gully in New York, and Steve and Rilla Alexander call Berlin home. “We do everything by email and between the five of us have a lot of time zones covered,” says Rilla, when asked how this works.

In the five years since XLR8R first featured the crew’s eye-popping visual finesse, they’ve gotten their fingers in quite a few pies. “We’ve painted hotel rooms in Copenhagen, launched music video site HubsTV, created characters for Madrid’s Museo del Prado museum, conducted a 10-day workshop in Sapporo, exhibited in galleries from Mexico City to Tokyo, and designed the inaugural issue of Paul Pope’s Batman for DC Comics,” Rilla types. “And, of course, in December of 2007 we did the [Switch] cover of XLR8R!”

The quintet keeps on rocking with their RMX project; the last installment, 2006’s Neighbourhood, featured handmade toys remixed by artists from across the globe. There’s plenty more to say about this graphic design Voltron but, frankly, no more space. Check their panoply of websites for more clean ‘n’ sharp visual stimulation.

Rinzen website
Rinzen Myspace
RMX Project
The Pop Manifesto
Hubs.TV