Nick Rissmeyer is a graphic + motion designer
in Chicago @onedesigncompanyWork

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Distant Community
2021Distant is a vibrant, vulnerable digital community that inspires easy-going exchange. Composed of a diverse set of makers, artists, and creatives—industry, years of experience, POV, and career ambitions considered—it’s a space where people can learn from others and learn with others. Find new potential collaborators. Develop friends to lean on. And all possible while we can’t connect IRL, now and whenever that remains true in the future.

Distant started as an idea for a magazine and then quickly pivoted to a creative online community space via slack during the pandemic when connection was feeling very limited. We hosted online talks and events, made guides for different cities and once it was possible we hosted in-person events and gatherings in multiple cities.

Currently (2025) we have 365 members from Chicago and New York to Toronto, Porto Alegre, Amsterdam and Lagos.

Team: 
Tim Finch
Elizabeth Vande Griend
Nick Rissmeyer
Bianca Smith









Just an arm’s length away.

Join here.

Updated: October 2025