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1PT.Rule Comic: All is Fair In Pants and War.

Wednesday I made a promise that we'd stick with Newton's artistic longings, so consider today's comic a minor distraction

I'm not sure how much I want to go into the issue at hand, for fear of exposing myself. Let me just say that sometimes in life, things happen, and the best way to deal with them is to share them in three panels.

1PT.Rule Comic: A Proper Measuring Stick

Happy Wednesday. We'll be spending a little bit of time with Newton's previous hair-heavy state (also seen here) for the next few days, or until I run out of jokes, whichever comes first.

News of note: 36 Point is going comic-only for a few weeks here while we re-tool the site. We're looking into a lot of what Movable Type 4 offers and seeing what makes sense and what we think you guys would like to use around here (aside from timely comics, drew). I'm picturing an atom-bomb of total awesomeness that will probably amount to a water-balloon of "pretty-good" when it's all said and done, but regardless, we'll give it our best, promise.

fancy wednesdays

The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job

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Every now and then we decide to get serious - a 2 credit stock photo of a handshake serious - this is one of those times.

On past shows we've covered freelancing, getting your portfolio ready for an interview (still one of our best podcasts), and getting an internship. But sometimes you just need a straight-up job, and that usually takes an interview. To share the perspective of a younger designer in the this process, we bring in the talented Chris Kelly

And a special thanks goes out to Mig Reyes for the student tip. When Mig was on the Season 1 finale, he said he'd provide the student tips for Season 2 of the Reflex Blue Show, and he delivered.

We'll be back in a month with Season 3, which will also include daily recaps from the HOW Conference in June.


1PT.Rule Comic: Ignorance is Sometimes Bliss

After Wednesday's comic I was notified that a few of my friends, absent to me, had a full-blown conversation about Marie's smoking. They seemed legitimately worried for her, and a little crushed that she might not be the sweet and innocent college design intern they always thought her to be. But how much do we really know about Marie outside of her internship? Does she always strike up a light to show apathy towards violence?

So I asked her about it, and she told me "only when I drink on the weekends, and when I win silver medals."

So there. 

1PT.Rule Comic: Design Is My Olympics III: Closing Ceremonies

Tanya Harding had it wrong you see. You want dat medal? You jus' wait 'till you see dat medal on dat der podium. Then you take dat shit.

I feel like the homepage preview, our tiny little comic that lets new readers know there is, in fact, more content to their posts, kinda gives this one away. So either look at it, really close, or close your eyes and just start clicking like mad.

1PT.Rule Comic: Design Is My Olympics II

I have very little comment on today -- outside of pointing out the obvious continuation of last week's singular comic endeavor and referencing it's probable Wednesday conclusion.

I've had a few local friends asking me where all the comics have been in 2010. They are here, residing in my brain, waiting to be unleashed. If you would like to help those along in their journey, I would wholeheartedly recommend a trip to our fabulous Zazzle store, to show your support in deep, meaningful ways. I would also like to point our our social-sharing functionality, at the top of this post, above the very words you are reading now. 

I know many of you already utilize these features to their full extent, and I shall thank you and continue shower you with all the gifts I have to give.

1PT.Rule Comic: Design Is My Olympics I

I love watching the Olympics. For me it's a family event, though the families I've watched it with have changed over the years. It's amazing to me how long I've been watching them -- do you realize how long it's been since Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan seemed relevant? I mean, sure, you can still drop their names into a joke and get a forced chuckle, but let's face it: if this strip were about Conrad kneecapping Steve before a client pitch...

...wait. I've said too much. That actually sounds totally awesome.

Watching the accomplishments of these athletes that have trained, in some cases, their entire lives for these moments, it is easy to feel less accomplished. We don't have speed skating, or the the flaming tower of awesome that was Snowboard Cross, we have more complex, yet smaller victories. Yes, we have medals, though they are awarded after a lifetime of great moments, not after one. But it's what we have, so we must take it.

1PT.Rule Comic: Tough Crowd

Verily, I have no time to chat this morning aside from to say this happened to me this week while judging the ADDYs of Spokane, Washington. There is, in fact, a category of online games, and this was an area I found their community to show strength in. Perhaps if I had gotten a high score, they, too, would have found high scores?

Naw, that's not really how I did it.

Or was it?

Naw. It wasn't.

OR WAS IT?!?!?


It wasn't.

1PT.Rule Comic: Tons of Jobs, You Would Think

I know, Photoshop Disasters jokes aren't really cutting edge. But the other day I was out seeing a movie and I saw this poster hanging on a wall for everyone to see.

Now, both me and my wife recognized this poster, and not because of out love of terrible movies. But the one point I couldn't grasp was, why on Earth would this poster, after being shunned on the apex of the Photoshop-shunning mountain, be allowed to be manufactured, produced, shipped and displayed near my home? Didn't someone see the post? Here it is again. Same link, but really, I want to be sure you see it. All I can tell you is, anytime I open Photoshop to make some beauty happen, I fear--fear--the results will appear on that site, because I can't imagine staying on somewhere once your boss or your client sees that.

And thus today's comic was born. Yup. That's how I do it, folks. Thaaaaaat's how it's done.

36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i

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We bring back last year's Superb Owl i host Tom Nemitz, as well as guests Steve Gordon and Rob Maguire to recap the ads played during Sunday's football game. Nicole Blauw also makes her first appearance on The Reflex Blue Show, and brings the knowledge that the rest of us lack on more topics than I care to speak of.

The Superb Owl Spectacular is probably the most fun we have recording a podcast each year - enjoy.


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