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Today’s extremely late comic attempts to make up for its lack of punctuality with an abundance of self. Not unlike the topic of conversation, really.
Now that I’m going to be legit soon, we thought it would be a good idea to help spread the word that we’ve actually interviewed some pretty luminous designers over the past few years. Let’s face it: not everyone listens to our podcast, and as such, many are losing out on the incredible pearls of wisdom we fish out of these designers’ brain-mullusks. Er, mind grapes. Where was I? Our interview with Sean Adams, where he explains in detail the founding, the success, and the failures of Adams Morioka, is now available in typography. Internet-typography, sure, but the letterforms themselves should be of comfort to most of you. We plan on dishing out more of these in the coming weeks, so if there’s an old Be A Design Cast or Reflex Blue interview you’d love to read because you never got around to listening to it, now’s the time to let us know.
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Before I joined AIGA some seven years ago, members were mailed a copy of the organizations’ Awards Annual (now called 365) in all of its hard-bound, heavy glory. Somewhere between the copy I later found of issue 18, and my first issue, 23, the shelf-height started varying, as well as the cover material.
Issue 24 came in 2003, and had a fuzzy orange color. Me being a sucker for orange, I loved it. As the years pass, the fuzzyness left a nice tarnished stain on the white cover of issue 23 that it shares a shelf with. Like a Sagmeister design experiment, it was destroying the book next to it, I have since changed my opinions on this tome. Even the orange cannot stop my dislike of it anymore.
Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
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