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A Review of Design from 2011 : The Reflex Blue Show #83
January 8th, 2012 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Looks like we ended the fourth season of The Reflex Blue Show with 12 episodes featuring guests such as James Victore, Jessica Hische, Michael Osborne, and Dyana Valentine. We also somehow found the time (with help from Ben Lueders) to cover 3 national conferences (in HOW, How Interactive, and AIGA) with 12 special episodes featuring guests like Emily Potts, Von Glitschka, Doug Powell, Cami Travis-Groves, and Terry White.
Season 5 kicks off with the biggest change we’ve ever made on this show – my co-host, Nate Voss, is stepping down from his podcasting duties. I am a bit unsure of how this will effect the direction of the show, but I’d love to take you with me on this adventure – and thank you for listening, it’s the reason I keep doing this.
In my six plus years of podcasting now, I have realized that the show has not always been just me and Nate, but has grown into what it is because of the listeners, and because of the great guests we have been able to have on the show. It is with that in mind that I bring back one of our most frequent friends of the show in Steve Gordon, and our newest one in Ben Lueders.
New Year? I guess it’s time we discuss 2011 then, as we each talk about what we found to be the Design Event of 2011; the Design Product of 2011; and the Design Story of 2011. Then I empty my fridge of vintage (i.e. old) soda in a taste test.
Hope you enjoy the new show.
Your host,
Donovan Beery
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 11: Staying Relevant as a Freelancer
October 3rd, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
How we made it through half of a season without having Steve Gordon, Jr. swing by to guest on a show is beyond me – and a problem we decided to fix immediately. So, welcome back to the show Steve! This time around, we start by talking of the Field Paper show in Omaha, Nebraska, which led to me getting this week’s topic from the immensely talented Cathy Solarana. We basically talk about staying relevant, and positioning yourself as a freelancer when you are no longer just a year or two outside of school.
We spend the second half of the show going over all sorts of things: Steve’s new book (which he just found out about this month), 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative (ends up that Rockport is packaging his previous book with two others in a new volume); Steve judging the HOW International Design Awards with Ann Willoughby and Mary Zalla; other upcoming F+W Media competitions; me blogging for Neenah Paper at the upcoming AIGA Pivot Conference in Phoenix; and what we are working on right now.
I’ll be back with daily podcast recaps from the big Phoenix event in a couple weeks, and we’ll be back with new shows starting in a month. Thanks for listening, and here is a link to the behind-the-scenes work on the new Neenah Paper promotions Design Army did (the ones we keep referencing in this episode).
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Emily Potts, Matt Porter, Steve Gordon, Theresa D’Alessandro, Ensley Peters, and Tom Nemitz recap the first day of the HOW Design Live straight from the hotel bar at the Hyatt.
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The Reflex Blue Show Presents: The Superb Owl Spectacular iii
February 10th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
GET READY FOR THE GREATEST PODCAST EVER MADE. And while you are getting ready, listen to ours.
This nearly-two-hour podcast is the very ultimate in Superbowl TV Commercial recaps. All the best, none of the rest. Our panel of six experts (including Design Princess Ashley McFeely, Show Friends Aaron Stubbe and Joe Sparano, and Steve “Aren’t I Too Famous For This Yet?” RDQlus Gordon) cut through nine categories of awesomeness to bring you the very best of the best of the best of Superbowl Ads. Listen in to see how we picked winners (and runners up) for the following categories:
- “Best” Use of a Celebrity or Athlete
- Best Nutshot or Nutshot-Like Behavior
- Worst Use of 3 Million Dollars
- Best Movie Trailer
- Best Use of Sexy to Sell an Unsexy Product or Service
- Character You Would Most Like to Party With
- Best Series
- Best Ad, Serious
- Best Ad, Comedy
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 3, Episode 19: Brandon Herbel Interview
January 17th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Steve Gordon introduced us, through Twitter, to Brandon Herbel of Make Believe Studio. Not only does Brandon do great work for music acts nationwide, but he also started his own clothing company eight months ago. When we found out he was located right in our backyard of Omaha, Nebraska, we had to have him stop by to be on the show. We speak of the new Make Believe Clothing Company and his other ventures. And how can we speak of any fashion without having Steve on the show, where he shares a bit more about his ventures into clothing – and then we talk Starbucks.
For those people not within a block of a Starbucks, it appears they are all rebranding.
We’ll be back in a couple weeks with our annual Twitter show, so send us questions @36point and we’ll answer them on the next show.
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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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