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The Reflex Blue Show: AIGA Pivot Conference Special: DAY TWO
October 15th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Once again, I’ll keep this short, as my conference reviews are already in written form at the Neenah Paper blog. Since yesterdays recap, I spoke of sitting on a chair made of seat belts, Robert Brunner still being a design genius and Chip Kidd becoming a super villain.
As for the day two recap, I bring in one of our favorite guests in Justin Ahrens, the voice of Neenah Paper’s social media in Jamie Saunders and one of the last conferences’ Command X participants telling us what it’s like on the other side of the competition in Ryan Fitzgibbon.
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Justin Ahrens, Von Glitschka, and Maria Singleton join us at the Creative Freelancer Happy Hour as we discuss the first day(-ish!) of the HOW Design Live in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 16: Pricing and Estimating for Design Clients
November 17th, 2010 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Pricing and estimating design projects is one of those things we didn’t expect to have to do when we decided to become designers. But if you freelance or go out on your own, you need to come up with some number for people to pay you. Pricing seems to involve trial and error, adjustments for the local market, and a bit of guess work.
To help us sort out some of these issues, we bring in guest Justin Ahrens of Rule29 in Geneva, Illinois.
And since there is a holiday coming up, and we always need a creative outlet, don’t forget to enter and/or vote in Rule29′s 3rd Annual Hand Turkey Illustration Extravaganza.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 3: Justin Ahrens & Von Glitschka
May 17th, 2010 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Justin Ahrens of Rule29, and Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios graciously spent time with us over what turned out to be a buggy day of Internet chatting on Friday. Thankfully, once the bugs worked themselves out by take three, it was a conversation that just flew by.
Both Justin and Von are speaking at next month’s How Conference in Denver, so we make them verbally battle it out over why you should see their presentations over the other ones there. Are they convincing? Chime in below.
Since both Justin and Von have been on the show last, the books just keep coming, as Justin has produced The Best of Business Card 9, and Von has created the amazing Drip Dot Swirl pattern book.
It was great to speak to both of them again, but the reason for having them on together? A recent trek to Africa to film a documentary for Life in Abundance. We speak of the life-changing trip that took both very talented artists out of their comfort zones and into the world of filmmaking. And in an environment that is literally known as the slums. Von has also been blogging about the experience starting with this post, for those that want a more in-depth feel for how one project can change you. I look forward to seeing the future works that the trip will produce. Amazing stuff so far.
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The Reflex Blue Show: AIGA Make/Think Conference Special: DAY ONE
October 12th, 2009 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Rocking it LIVE LIVE LIVE from the show floor — three days ago. Our efforts to bring you the AIGA Make/Think Conference were routed by our shotty server-to-wi-fi connection at the convention center and hotel. Everything else worked great, but when it came to uploading the files, we tasted bitter defeat time and time again. Eventually the stress became to great, and we decided to bring this show back and launch it from the comfort of our own studio chairs.
This show was taped directly following the second day’s (sure it says Day One up there, but our number system is not encumbered by facts) festivities, and with Steve Hartman and Justin Ahrens running the room while we spoke to the passers-by, we crammed an amazing amount of talent into these 25 minutes. In no particular order:
- Chip Kidd, who explodes about being a judge for Command-X
- Bonnie Siegler, who created and served as a judge on Command-X
- Michael Bierut, host of Command-X and gracious gift-giver of time, dance-offs
- Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and emcee of Make/Think, who totally rocked it this year
- Tom Wright from Neenah Paper, huge sponsor of Make/Think and the Life in Abundance print we spoke about during 20/20
- Mig Reyes, from our show’s regular Mig Tips and being awesome all the time
- Steve Hartman, from Creativille
- Justin Ahrens and Tim Damitz, from Rule29
- Gary Mosteller, from we’re-not-sure-where but hey, it’s our show, and you’re welcome on it
So give it a listen — more shows are coming this week!
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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 
Donovan oversees all creative development at