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36 Point Got One Minute on the AIGA National Design Conference's Main Stage

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Posted December 22, 2009 8:32 PM

I can't believe it's already been over two months since we got four designers into a Honda Civic to drive eleven hours from Omaha to Memphis and back in just over four days of time. The event? The AIGA National Design Conference. And on opening night October 8th, Nate and I were invited to be part of the 20/20 hosted by Debbie Millman.

The rules were simple: 1) Be on stage while your presentation was going on and 2) Keep it to sixty seconds.

To see what we, and the other speakers had to say, see the video at the AIGA website here. Our presentation was the first of the group, so we start right after Debbie introduces the event.

The United States Postal Service Loves Postcard Senders this Holiday Season

Donovan Beery

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Posted December 20, 2009 1:04 PM

Last year, our limited holiday card to friends and family took a change to a postcard format. We really don't write a letter, so the need for the extra space was not an issue.

Continue reading The United States Postal Service Loves Postcard Senders this Holiday Season.

36 Point Featured on Humble Pied

Donovan Beery

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Posted December 9, 2009 12:23 PM

One inspiring creative sharing one piece of advice, all over iChat.

This is the vision of Mig Reyes' (he of The Reflex Blue Show student tips ever since his appearance on the podcast) newest venture. Humble Pied launched less than a month ago, but has already built up a solid amount of content from designers across the nation.

36 Point was honored to have been asked to contribute advice for today's post. To hear what we said, view the post here.

Everything Looked Better in 1940

Donovan Beery

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Posted December 1, 2009 9:15 AM

Spending the weekend after Thanksgiving working in the attic, my wife found a business card laying in the insulation.

Since we had the original asbestos slate shingles replaced last year, we assume this is the business card from the original roofer of our house in 1940. And now I know why everything looked so good back in the days before America's involvement in the war - there were obviously no client demands about how much information needed to be on items like their business cards.

Do you need a city, state and zip code? Like we're doing work outside of Omaha?

Do you need your fax, cell and office phones listed? What?

How about your website and email address? Are you drinking whiskey at 7 in the morning?

Maybe a nice photo of a roof or a shingle? I think If it's a roof call "Mac" will get the point across.

Type choice limitation really helps in instances like this. No need for a half dozen fonts when you don't have access to them. And thankfully Comic Sans is still 54 years away.

And dealing with phone numbers only four digits in length? Too bad the 1960s killed that one...

Original Art by Donovan and Nate for Sale to Benefit Charity

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Posted September 29, 2009 9:00 PM

The custom vinyl toy show We Ain't Plastic! opens Friday at The Public Shoe Store in Lincoln, NE. The event will showcase over 40 custom Qee toys (by Toy2R) painted, drawn on, added-to, modified and who knows what else by local artists and designers.

Nate has created a space pirate (left), with Sharpie being the medium of choice, and I used acrylic paint as the main source of my character (right). Both will be for sale at the event, with the majority of the proceeds to be donated to the Boys & Girls Club.

Even though the opening reception is the big event, the toys will be on display through the rest of the month.

I mention looking for needing an an excuse to paint, and I get not only one, but two in the same month. The second one involved Nate and I spending a couple hours at Blue Planet Natural Grill (get the salmon sandwich - it is amazing) painting and drawing on shoes that are being auctioned off in benefit to the Green Omaha Coalition. The TOMS Shoes Event involved us and some local DJs and celebrities.

A total of seven pairs of shoes are now up for auction on eBay for the next nine days. We hope that we can help both charities with our minor contributions.

About an hour before we were suppose to start on the shoes, Nate and I met to work on some concepts ahead of time. I had a fear of walking into the event with an artists block of sorts, and decided I need to do at least some minimal sketching before hand. One concept Nate told me to try was a tree in both winter and spring. I can't do two trees in a short timeframe, and he informed me that if I wasn't taking it, he would. It was a good decision on his part, as he did a great job with the Sharpie on a size 8.5 men's shoe.

My shoes were a simple concept of two faces. One smiling, one not. Once again in acrylic, on a men's size 10.

My advice for these events is as such: do them, they are great fun, and you get an excuse to do what you enjoy. If we can help great organizations like Green Omaha Coalition or Boys & Girls Club in the process, it's even better.

36Point Events for September/October, 2009

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Posted September 16, 2009 4:50 PM

The upcoming weeks look to be busier than usual for 36Point, so I thought I would post the events in case anyone wants to stop by to say hello. Or, if you follow us on Twitter, you'll have a better idea of the things we may be talking about this month and next.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Nate and I will be at Blue Planet Natural Grill in Omaha for A TOMS Shoes Event (decorating some shoes obviously), along with some local celebrities. All shoes will be auctioned for charity to benefit the Green Omaha Coalition.

Friday, October 2, 2009

I had so much fun painting that toy a few months back, that I jumped at the chance to be part of the We Ain't Plastic! exhibit in Lincoln. The exhibit will display over 40 different local artists' creations (Nate and I both included). A sneak peak at mine can be seen above. We're hearing rumor of a potential Omaha exhibit later, but nothing confirmed. We hope it happens, as our schedules don't work with us being there that night, but we would love to see what the other artists create. Many of these will be for sale, with some proceeds going to charity.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

We are thrilled to be one of twenty speakers given complete freedom in sixty seconds of main stage time during the AIGA National Conference in Memphis. It's the "20/20" segment of the opening night kick-off. We'll also be hanging around the conference the rest of the time and hope to meet some new people there. Are we the first Nebraska-based designers to get main stage time? Please let us know if we're following in footsteps here.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spokane Falls Community College, as part of their Educational Speaker Series, will be doing a viewing of our PORTFOLIOWN'D podcast. Following this, there will be a live (via video conferencing) Q&A with Nate, myself and special guest Steve Gordon.

Then it's getting ready for Halloween I guess...

The 36 Point / Life in Abundance Design + Benefit Poster is Featured on FPO

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Posted August 7, 2009 10:37 AM

My choice for best summertime website distraction for designers, FPO: For Print Only, selected our Life in Abundance poster for today's feature. Check out the post to not only get some better pictures of the completed project, but some in-progress photos provided directly from Spark Stationery.

36 Point's Nate Voss in the Illustrator Spotlight

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Posted July 22, 2009 8:00 AM

Illustrate Omaha interviewed 1PT.Rule creator Nate Voss about his life as an illustrator. Read the interview here.

36 Point Answers 5 Questions from Silicon Prairie News

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Posted July 10, 2009 8:32 AM

Omaha-area news blog Silicon Prairie News has announced a new feature they call "Five in Five" today, and asked Nate and I to be the first bloggers they feature. So we created a five-minute video answering five questions about the state of blogging in Omaha.

We also took this opportunity to showcase us playing this new arcade machine we've been tweeting about.

Read more at Silicon Prairie News or just watch our clip below.

Donovan Answers More Listener/Reader Mail

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Posted July 7, 2009 9:17 AM

Had a few questions come in via email I thought I'd answer here, so, without any other intro, here goes...

DC: Hello, my name is Danielle C. and I am currently a student majoring as a Graphic Designer with and emphasis in Illustration. My Professor gave me your name so I could ask some questions about going into a career in design.

DB: That sounds fantastic, and sure, I'll even answer them on the site for others to read. Since others may read this too, the chances of me being honest just went up dramatically.

Continue reading Donovan Answers More Listener/Reader Mail.

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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job
Justin Ahrens says: Great season fellas! Mig's last tip was brilliant:)
1PT.Rule Comic: A Proper Measuring Stick
Drew Davies says: We're happy whenever it is that we get new comics, Nate. p.s. I like Newton's college hair. I'd always figured it used to look like that.
1PT.Rule Comic: A Proper Measuring Stick
Ryan Rushing says: Good luck setting up Movable Type. I've heard it's pretty difficult, but of course totally worth it. ..Initiating beast mode...
1PT.Rule Comic: Ignorance is Sometimes Bliss
Brianna says: Wow, are you magic? I just had to take a break from a horrendous PPT that an internal client has asked me to "fix" -- *weep* -- only to find you have penned the perfect comic to pull me out of my melt
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job
Donovan Beery says: PF, great insight on the process out East. Being in a different region, it's sometimes hard to tell what changes there are based on geography, but it sounds about the same there as it is here (Well, o
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job
Nate Voss says: skillS5Z
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job
Mr. PF says: Great episode guys! I wanted to jump in on that conversation multiple times, but I think you did a good job of covering all sides of some debates. In a fit of half-procrastination, half-ranting, I wr
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job
Prescott Perez-Fox says: Ok, I'm not done listening to the show yet, but I have to chime in and remark on a recent interview I was on, where the interviewed attempted to flatter me by remarking that they had over 700 applican
1PT.Rule Comic: Ignorance is Sometimes Bliss
Nate Voss says: Hey — keep it classy up in here, Prescott. Keep it classy.
1PT.Rule Comic: Ignorance is Sometimes Bliss
Prescott Perez-Fox says: Oh don't even get me started on Powerpoint!!! By far the worst piece of software ever developed. Notice I DID NOT say "design software." These days, I just use InDesign and save as a PDF. But you've p
1Pt.Rule Comic: The Wandering Design Ninja, Part 1
Nate Voss says: Lisa, that is awesome. I approve of your battle against injustice and comic sans…
1Pt.Rule Comic: The Wandering Design Ninja, Part 1
Lisa says: Glorious!! A few years ago, I had a very similar idea for a Halloween costume... http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermilionink/58047359/ (Apologies for the blurry photo; ninjas do everything in their p
36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i
Ryan Rushing says: Donovan, I think you were dead on about the new design being so terrible it's awesome. You pointed out the London 2012 logo, and I would also like to throw in the Aol. logo. Not that's it's necess
36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i
Tom Nemitz says: Also... She's a lady! Whoa-oh-whoa-oh! Sorry, I couldn't resist. Haha!
36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i
Tom Nemitz says: A world where Chuck Barkley is not recognized as a poet laureate is scarcely a world at all.
36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i
Rob says: We should have spent more time talking about this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfw4xDQdbWQ
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Tom Nemitz says: "I will always think of Illustrator as the dickhead jock of the group." Myself, I consider Illustrator to be the Jeff Gillooly of design software. You know, Tonya Harding's BFF who took out the kneec
1PT.Rule Comic: adobee, Coming This Fall!
Prescott Perez-Fox says: I cannot stand the little differences! You're right, Illustrator likes to make its own rules. For example, why when you go to Preferences, does Illustrator refer to "User Interface" and put it almost
1PT.Rule Comic: A Subtle Difference In Tone
Clint says: Holy crap dude. You must, MUST make this card a reality.
The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 20: Twitter Show 2: Throwback to the Future
Donovan Beery says: And then Nate returned the hazing to Omaha, and forced it upon me... the bruises are mostly gone now...