Nate Voss: April 2008 Archives

This week we welcome special guest Bennett Peji to the Reflex Blue Show, and what an enjoyable show it was! We're always thrilled when we get a chance to sit down with the best in the business (just listen to the first 3 minutes for Bennett's resumé. You will suddenly feel somehow inadequate), but even then it's a rare treat to find designers as passionate and excitable about their work as Peji. He specializes in urban and district branding managing multi-million dollar projects with potentially hundreds of clients, but got his start by opening his own graphic design company while he was still a senior in college to do a single logo. The man's got what we like to call range. 

After a week's hiatus we are back in full effect! Tom Nemitz makes his first Reflex Blue Show appearance as we list the Top 5 Designer Office Items (by category). and those categories are: Poster, 3-Dimensional Object, Wild Card, Reference, and Inspirational Tome. We want to see your answers below! Thanks for listening,

Our complete guide to getting a graphic design summer internship. We welcome Design Princess Ashley McFeely back to the show, well, to the Reflex Blue Show, for the first time ever to trade old war stories of internships gone by. Tales of portfolio samples; tales of getting boned by other interns who hate you, and tales of that one guy who got hit by a car. We also give out a Top 5 tips on how to land an internship, so don't think we forgot about you. A must for design students. Peace out --

A few weeks back Donovan and I gave a show stopping presentation at a student portfolio event called Meet the Pros (site and poster design by me). And even though we weren't their first choice, we were the first ones to say "yes" and low, PORTFOLIOWN'D was born. A rip-roaring take through the entire student portfolio process -- from purpose to process, order to interview, we cover how to make a great portfolio from top to bottom. Much of what you are about to hear we learned from our own experiences as former students, as professors, as interviewers and portfolio reviewers, and from people much smarter than ourselves. So sit back, grab a cold one, and relax on your inflatable couch. Enjoy.

True story: This one time? I totally got fired on April Fool's Day. Hilarity ensued.