36 Point http://www.36point.com/articles/ en Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:40:15 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery Episode 13: Bernard Uy reflex_blue_ep13.jpg

Bernard Uy (of Wall to Wall Studios) is the kind of guy you can't help but love when you meet. Charming, friendly, funny, and endlessly intelligent. And please don't take this show's cover illustration as a play on his ability to convince his partner to open a second office in Honolulu -- and that he should staff it -- the man has mad ukulele skills. We talk shop in the beginning, but this episode is really about AIGA Honolulu's big push for sustainable design: DesignFootprint.org, which leads into our best examination yet of going green in your work. Because when your specialty paper needs to be shipped halfway across the Pacific Ocean, well, I guess you think about those kinds of things.

--nv--

]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/07/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-12.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/07/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-12.html The Reflex Blue Show Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:40:15 -0600 Like Colors like-colors-book.gif Dearest readers,

As friends of 36 Point, we'd like to bring your attention to our newest endeavor:

Like Colors is a t-shirt competition -- a concerted effort to assemble the finest in contemporary t-shirt design. The results will be published in an upcoming book of the same title. It's free to enter and open to everyone. The deadline for submissions is 15 August 2008.  

Call for entries and additional information is available at likecolors.oxidedesign.com 

Feel free to enter early and often, and spread the word around the globe. Thanks for your support! 

Drew Davies
Oxide Design Co.
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/07/like-colors.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/07/like-colors.html call for entries competition t-shirts Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:10:47 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery Episode 12: Sean Adams reflex_blue_ep12.jpg

This week we welcome special guest Sean Adams of Adams Morioka! Current President of the AIGA and master of all things super-great, Sean was our guest while visiting the great city of Omaha for the AIGA Leadership Retreat last month. Aside from being a great designer and, according to him, a fantastic boss, Sean is really one of the most generous and kind people we've had the privilege to share the microphone with. 

Sorry for the spotty sound on this show(and a few upcoming); the 36 Point Mobile Recording Studio turned out to be on its last legs during this conversation and died shortly thereafter. We don't know if that's what actually makes us sound terrible on this show or not, but Sean sounds great, and that's who you're really tuning in for, now isn't it?

--nv--

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]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-11.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-11.html The Reflex Blue Show Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:06:29 -0600 36 Point has Joined teh Future facebook group than any Facebook user can join.

We plan to announce upcoming podcast guests there, release a few behind the scenes pictures and illustrations, and hopefully get some feedback on where teh future is going. Someone said it was Facebook, so we'll try this group thing out...
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/36-point-has-joined-teh-future.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/36-point-has-joined-teh-future.html Donovan Beery facebook future Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:57:57 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 11: Epic Fail ReflexBlueShow_11.jpg

Let me get this out of the way quickly: WE ARE OLD. We didn't used to be old. Well, Donovan did, but I sure didn't. Then suddenly we looked around (and recorded this show) and said the words "youth" and "culture" in tandem aloud, and found ourselves on the other side of the great divide. thankfully we welcome old friends John Henry Müller and Dave Nelson to the show to tell us how we're doing it wrong. Listen, and if your ears are quick enough, you can actually hear the last vestiges of my youth slipping into the abyss. 

Also: Inexplicably, I swear in this show. A Lot. You've been warned.

--nv--

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]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-10.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/06/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-10.html The Reflex Blue Show Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:48:38 -0600 Mad Phil Documents the Suck that is Papyrus papyrus_sign.jpg
Papyrus seems to be a bit overused (shock). Papyrus also seems to be used not so appropriately in many occasions (even bigger shock). These are just two of the reasons it became the first Taboo Typeface on the podcast, back in 2005.

However, when we visited Nashville last year, Mad Phil was telling me that he enjoyed taking photos of all of the places he sees Papyrus, sharing that his feelings of hate towards this font run much deeper then my own. Since then, I've found some particularly nice samples where it is cut-out, or drop shadowed, where even I couldn't resist taking a photo and sending them his way. Thankfully, Mad Phil has started a Flickr group dedicated to the typeface so the enjoyment can be shared by all of those who share the displeasure of seeing this font overtake all of the others in its path.
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/mad-phil-documents-the-suck-th.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/mad-phil-documents-the-suck-th.html Donovan Beery Wed, 28 May 2008 08:36:09 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 10: The Chicago International Poster Thing _reflex_blue_ep10.jpg

This week we discuss at lenth the Chicago International Poster Biennial (hereby pronounced "bee-ennial"), which eventually turns into a bunch of whining about rock posters again. We welcome Superstar Designer Drew Davies to the show for the first time ever since the last show and rock it out. Not discussed: neon signs. Peace 

--nv--


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]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-9.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-9.html The Reflex Blue Show Wed, 21 May 2008 16:54:24 -0600 Chicago International Poster Biennial Entries Gallery
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Post your entries to the 2008 Chicago International Poster Biennial on Flickr and join our group.

Thousands, perhaps millions of posters will be entered and only 100 will win, so we at 36 Point wanted to showcase as many of the entries as possible to help celebrate poster designers around the world. This gallery is built to house those.tif files that are required of the entry process, so once you send yours off, load them up!

If you don't have a Flickr account and hate free things that are awesome, post a link to your entry (jpegs please) in our comments and we'll see that it gets added to the group. Please be sure when adding images to our group, to set their permissions to "public."

Winners will be announced by the CIPB in the Fall of 2008. Good luck!
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/chicago-international-poster-b-1.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/chicago-international-poster-b-1.html Nate Voss Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 -0600 Chicago International Poster Biennial Opens chicago_poster_1.jpg
This week the Design Observer announced the CIPB. "Seehpppppbt?" Okay, that's not an acronym'able name. Let's call it the Chicago International Poster Biennial, which is a first (while other IPB's exist, this is Chi-town's first), and is free to enter. While on the one hand, I'm excited, on the other, I'm hoping not to be let down.
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/chicago-international-poster-b.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/chicago-international-poster-b.html Nate Voss Sat, 10 May 2008 13:21:51 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 9: Music Meets Creativity _reflex_blue_ep9.jpg

This week: Music Meets Creativity with special guest -- Graphic Design's DJ -- Steve (RDQlus) Gordon. 

Rarely do you see the designer today without their iPod (or, if you're one of those people, your Zune) plugged in, filling the gaps in their creativity with their music. While we spend the first few minutes being a little Radiohead-centric, Steve, Donovan and I eventually discuss the parallels of creation great design to creating great music, what music is great for design and what music can kill a creative mood, and why the Halo 3 soundtrack is actually awesome and Donovan needs to shut up about defunct 80's rock. Enjoy The Reflex Blue Show Episode 9 with a cold one and your favorite playlist.

--nv--

Download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 9 (22meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.

]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-8.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/05/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-8.html The Reflex Blue Show Fri, 09 May 2008 09:50:36 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 8: Bennett Peji reflex_blue_ep8.jpg

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. 

Thanks again to Bennett for being on the show, and we'll see you next week!

--nv--

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]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-7.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-7.html The Reflex Blue Show Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:50:29 -0600 Donovan Answers Some Listener/Reader Mail Nate and I have always made it a policy to answer as much of our mail as possible (our emails are easy enough to find), but doing so on the podcast causes a delay based on recording schedules, and CJ may be on a timeline with these, so I'll answer in a written format this time.

CJ: I've been listening to The Reflex Blue Show since it was the Be A Design Cast and have always enjoyed it. I am starting a research paper for class where we interview a designer, and I know Nate and yourself always have cool anecdotes. Would you mind answering four or five short questions for my paper?

DB: Of course. Although cool anecdotes at eight in the morning will be limited.

]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/donovan-answers-some-listenerr.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/donovan-answers-some-listenerr.html Donovan Beery Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:48:41 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 7: Top 5 Designer Office Things _reflex_blue_ep7.jpg

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,

--nv--

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]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-6.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-6.html The Reflex Blue Show Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:04:52 -0600 Learned from Contracting Doing what I refer to as contract design work at first seems to be the same as the freelance design work I spoke of last week: you do design for a client and they pay you. But you're not actually on salary. In those respects, I understand grouping contracting and freelancing together, but other than that, contracting seems to be a whole different job, although in my case and many others, it has been done at the same time as the freelance work we all speak so highly of.

The main difference to me is that you're either doing overflow work for a creative shop and/or ad agency, or working directly with a client on random jobs that the majority of are too small to outsource to an agency, and would be considered ideal for an in-house designer if they had one (or if it was a high enough priority). As before, these things I learned are listed in no particular order:

]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/learned-from-contracting.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/learned-from-contracting.html Donovan Beery Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:58:40 -0600 The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 6: Invisible Paycheck _reflex_blue_ep6.jpg

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 --

--nv--

Download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 6 (24 meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
]]> http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-5.html http://www.36point.com/articles/2008/04/the-reflex-blue-show-with-nate-5.html The Reflex Blue Show Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:54:46 -0600