Donovan Beery: March 2008 Archives

Voting is Sexier than Stealing Photography

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Posted March 28, 2008 6:56 AM

Four years ago, AIGA had asked that every local chapter have a designer create a "get out the vote" poster (a tradition they will continue this year as well), and the AIGA Nebraska Board was deciding who would be a good firm or individual to choose when the worst decision possible came up... why not have a committee do it?

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New Store Item: Mountees!

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Donovan Beery
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Posted March 19, 2008 6:19 PM
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Earier this year, I was at Oxide Design Co. the day they were moving to their new location, and "Superstar Designer Drew Davies" (a registered trademark of Andrew Davies) had these sweet magnetic animal heads all over his new space. I had seen them at his old spot, they have them placed on anything with metal, holding pens, memory cards, and assorted other items in their mouths, but didn't notice the packaging he had done for them.

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Meeting Stefan Bucher

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Posted March 11, 2008 5:44 PM
I had originally met Stefan the first weekend in October 2002, when he was judging the AIGA Nebraska design competition along with Steve Hartman and Sharon Werner. It was the first year I had entered more than one item into the competition, and the first time I would witness a design competition be judged, as I was helping move entries and doing some of the behind the scenes work.

I got shut out. Nate, who designed the poster for the competition won a gold award.

I have yet to be shut out since, but I realized how random some judging can be. You will almost always lose more than you win, so it seems pointless to hold it against anyone. I just found it odd that the first two guests we've had on the podcast are two of the judges from the same show, and I of course had to mention it to both of them.

But neither were in the area to judge this time, they were here to present, and in Stefan's case, also paint a mural (shown after the jump).


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