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Apologies for the big, long Labor-Day break. I spent it working, which is, as they say, a problem I’d like to have, but sitting down to do today’s comic, which was meant to be posted last Friday when this kind of news was still relatively new, felt like going back to Calculus after spending a whole summer forgetting how to do it.
If you missed it, Michael Bierut, perhaps the nicest design mega-star (again, if there even is such a thing), brought two of my worlds together when he announced on the Pentagram blog that his team handled the new iteration of the Guitar Hero logo. This, of course, includes an entire Guitar-Hero typeface design, and endless visual interpretations that seem to center on fire and rock. Brand New, of course, has a great dissection of it as well.
Bierut gets the credit, and I really don’t have a problem with that, but the actual designer on the project was a fellow by the name of Joe Marianek, and the typeface itself was designed by Kai Salmela. The common problem with working at Pentagram and not being Michael Bierut or Paula Scher (or any of the other 18 or 19 partners) is that you often get overlooked by the masses when you do something awesome. The way around this, or so I’ve heard, is to start four or five of the most successful design websites ever, and even then you still have to quit to get noticed.
But it’s still no Rock Band.
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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.
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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