The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 4: Wrote for HOW, Now Writes 4 Food
July 11th, 2011 | by Donovan Beery
Bryn Mooth, who was the face of HOW and the HOW Conference for as long as I can remember, attended this year’s conference as an attendee. But leaving the world of writing? No, she’s just moved on to writing about food at her new site, writes4food.
So we talk of food, writing, 20 years of HOW, and then – interruptions – lot of interruptions. Ends up that after recording our last episode with Dyana Valentine and Stefan Mumaw, the staff of the conference center cleaned our recording room out. In the process, our microphones and some other items were just gone. I will give the Hyatt staff some props for quick action on this one. Too quick, as we get interrupted a number of times here. Even before recording was done (as you will hear through the breaks in this show), half of our items were found. The microphones made it back within a few hours. The other items? I assume they got thrown in a dumpster.
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The Reflex Blue Show, 2010 HOW Conference Special: DAY ONE
June 6th, 2010 | by Donovan Beery
First off, big thanks to Justin for making the first few hours of our trip to Denver worth it for that alone. Not only did he greet us with a sign that made us realize we were in for serious design business all week, but he got us started off with a session of Street Fighter on the PS3 before lunch. Faces were kicked.
After lunch, it was off to the conference center to check in, and it was all about the Creative Freelancer Conference. We recap the conference and talk about what is in front of us the rest of the week with a variety of guests in today’s show: HOW Conference Speaker Jeni Herberger, Freelance Designer Michael King, Jamie Saunders of Neenah Paper (she also runs their Twitter account @neenahpaper), Jackie Brown of Jax Design, Bryn Mooth of HOW Design, and no show is complete without Steve Gordon.
Day two will bring us the closing of the Creative Freelancer Conference, the opening of the In-HOWSE Designer Conference, and the kick-off of the 2010 How Conference.
Check back for more updates, or follow us on Twitter (@36point and @vossome) as we spend the week in Denver, Colorado covering the design event of the year.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 4: Bryn Mooth Goes 2 The HOW Conference
April 30th, 2009 | by Donovan Beery
The HOW Conference. I’m told that if you need to be re-energized in the field of design that it’s the best thing to do. I’m going this year, Steve Gordon is on some panel, and we spoke on the last show about how Armin Vit moved to Austin just to be closer to the action.
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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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