The Reflex Blue Show: AIGA Pivot Conference Special: DAY ONE
October 14th, 2011 | by Donovan Beery
Somehow I ended up in Phoenix, and so far, great. I’ll keep these posts short, as I am writing my recaps over at the Neenah Paper blog. To read those, here is my first day recap, and here is my first night recap.
But for the audio recap of Day One at Pivot on The Reflex Blue Show, we bring you AIGA Nebraska President Craig Hughes, AIGA National Board Member Drew Davies, and AIGA National President Doug Powell.
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First, we’d like to thank everyone who’s shown their support to 36 Point for the past year and a half. Second, we’d like to blow your minds with our exciting announcement that we’re transitioning to an all-hobo format over here. Beginning this morning with our first Hobo-Designer-1PT.Rule, and continuing soon with only-on-the-train-tracks recordings of future Reflex Blue Shows, we’re sure you’ll be as excited for this change as we are.
To celebrate and make it official, we commissioned leading logo and identity designer Drew Davies of Oxide Design to create our new mark. “Knocking it out of the park” would be an understatement. “Everyone said Cooper Black was dead, and look at it now,” Davies said of the redesign project. “Hobo is here to stay.”
Drew Davies’ work has appeared in Logo Lounge 2, 3, 4 and 5, as well as two upcoming Master Library books from that series, Communication Arts (six times), AIGA 365 (twice), Print’s Regional Design Annual, HOW Magazine, and he has served as a judge to many regional and national design competitions, including the Communication Arts Design Annual in 2004, and serves as the Design Director for AIGA’s Design for Democracy.
This one goes out to some friends of mine.
Last week we put together an impromptu Great Pizza Hunt and after waiting far long than I should I’m going to post my review of Zio’s Pizzeria and the one I have received. If you were there, and you know who you are, either send me your quick review or post it in the comments and I’ll see that it gets added.
Now, I say to you who want to go again — where to next?
As this has the potential to go long, all this will be after the jump.


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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