Allan Haley Interview : The Reflex Blue Show #84

January 24th, 2012 | by Donovan Beery
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Type is one of those elements that I use it every day, I could not do my job without, and yet as much as I know about it, there is even more that I do not know. That’s why I find it such a great opportunity to speak with guests like Allan Haley of Monotype Imaging. Allan knows more about letters than I ever will, so it was great to have him on this episode of The Reflex Blue Show.

Joined by co-host Ben Lueders, we talk about Monotype Imaging, web fonts, how to become a type designer and the hardest letter in the English alphabet to design.

We also speak a bit about his 2012 HOW Conference presentation (Allan is one of the speakers) coming this June in Boston.

We’ll be back in two weeks recapping the ads from some football game. See you then!

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A Review of Design from 2011 : The Reflex Blue Show #83

January 8th, 2012 | by Donovan Beery
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The Reflex Blue Show - Season 5, Episode 1

Looks like we ended the fourth season of The Reflex Blue Show with 12 episodes featuring guests such as James Victore, Jessica Hische, Michael Osborne, and Dyana Valentine. We also somehow found the time (with help from Ben Lueders) to cover 3 national conferences (in HOW, How Interactive, and AIGA) with 12 special episodes featuring guests like Emily Potts, Von Glitschka, Doug Powell, Cami Travis-Groves, and Terry White.

Season 5 kicks off with the biggest change we’ve ever made on this show – my co-host, Nate Voss, is stepping down from his podcasting duties. I am a bit unsure of how this will effect the direction of the show, but I’d love to take you with me on this adventure – and thank you for listening, it’s the reason I keep doing this.

In my six plus years of podcasting now, I have realized that the show has not always been just me and Nate, but has grown into what it is because of the listeners, and because of the great guests we have been able to have on the show. It is with that in mind that I bring back one of our most frequent friends of the show in Steve Gordon, and our newest one in Ben Lueders.

New Year? I guess it’s time we discuss 2011 then, as we each talk about what we found to be the Design Event of 2011; the Design Product of 2011; and the Design Story of 2011. Then I empty my fridge of vintage (i.e. old) soda in a taste test.

Hope you enjoy the new show.

Your host,
Donovan Beery

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Our Favorite Shows from Season 4

January 4th, 2012 | by Donovan Beery
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With Nate’s announcement this week that he is stepping down from co-hosting The Reflex Blue Show, the change in calendar to 2012, and the fact we have already taken a couple months off from recording, I felt it was only appropriate to declare this as the end of Season 4. This of course brings us to announce our personal favorites from what was actually a pretty eventful year of recordings. You can view our picks for all four seasons here.

I will greatly miss having Nate on every show, as there are only a number of recordings I did without him over the past six years, and I know the show would not be what it is without all that he has done. Without Nate, I wouldn’t be recording a show at all, as it was him and Tom that decided this would be a fun adventure, and somehow invited me to be a guest for that first episode of the Be A Design Cast. It’s been a great six years or so of podcasting, and I thank Nate for a lot of that. I wish him the best in his next endevour.

As for my next endevour? Season 5 of The Reflex Blue Show kicks off next week. I’ll see you then, and thank you for listening.

As for our picks, we both went with the shows we had the most fun recording.

Donovan’s Pick: Episode 6 (#76)
One of my favorite things with The Reflex Blue Show is seeing where the conversation leads us. I went in wanting to talk about Joey’s Corner – we ended up talking about postage stamps – and I had a blast.

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Guests:
 Michael Osborne and Dennis Whalen of Michael Osborne Design
Main Topics:
 United States Postage Stamp Design, Acadamy of Art University Packaging 4 Class
Release Date:
 July 25, 2011
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Nate’s Pick: Episode 7 (#77)
We got up to some bid’ness with this throbbing firecracker of a man, who blurs, bends and twists the line between art and design so much and so well you’ll forget it existed in the first place. Bonus: Lots of swearing!

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Guest:
 James Victore
Main Topics:
 Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?; 25 Year Journey in Career; Movies
Release Date:
 August 1, 2011
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So Long, Everyone!

January 2nd, 2012 | by Nate Voss
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“ ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ Whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”    — Steve Jobs

The tweet here is probably something along the lines of “I’m hanging up my podcasting spurs.” Of course, brevity has never really been a strong suit of mine, so I’ll elaborate below. But if you just want the quick hit, there it is. These old spurs, I am a’ hangin’ them up.

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HOW IDC Recap Day 3

November 5th, 2011 | by Guest Author
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The How Interactive Design Conference came to a close today with a lengthy yet groundbreaking 3 hr training session. Terry White, Adobe’s “Worldwide Design Evangelist”, introduced the largely print-based crowd to Adobe’s latest web product: Adobe Muse.

Our Day 3 recap begins with an in-depth explanation of Adobe Muse from Terry White himself- and then we talk with two print designers, Cami Rutkowski and Paige Clark of Seattle WA, who were absolutely stunned by Terry’s presentation- and the conference in general.

(A special thanks to Cami and Paige- who at first were rather shy about being featured on such a high-profile design blog… but obviously, turned out to be a fantastic radio duo. You two should start your own design podcast!)

-Ben Lueders // Eleven19 Communications

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