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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 7: James Victore Interview
August 1st, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
James Victore has one of the best looking books I have seen in the past few years out right now showcasing his work. Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?, designed by Paul Sahre, and printed with enough ink to kill a man is obviously the first thing we need to talk about.
From there we cover some of the past 25 years of Victore’s career, and movies. Out of the past couple years, James Victore recommends The Town. I recommend Hot Tub Time Machine.
After recording this, I told some friends they NEEDED to see this guy talk the next day at HOWlive. I am told he did not disappoint, and delivered a presentation much like his work: one that makes you want to do better work – and work that matters.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 6: Michael Osborne & Dennis Whalen
July 25th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Michael Osborne spoke at the first HOW Conference I attended two years ago in Austin. He talk about running a non-profit design studio called Joey’s Corner was one of the highlights of the conference – for me at least. Since that talk, I actually upped the amount of pro-bono work I had been doing, rather than scaling back as finances would think I should. So when I saw that he would be speaking at the Dieline section of HOWlive this year, he was at the top of the list for people we really wanted to have on the show.
We welcome not only Michael Osborne, but also Dennis Whalen of Michael Osborne Design where we speak briefly about the work of the studio. And somewhere along the way we also talk of Michael’s Packaging 4 class at the Academy of Art University. Amazing student work.
But first, we speak of stamps. One of the things I love most about recording these shows is the uncertainty of where the conversations will lead – and this one starts off by spending half the show speaking about United States Postage stamps. The art above shows the two stamps we speak the highest of. The 2002 Love stamp designed by Michael Osborne, and the 3 cent baseball stamp from 1939. Enjoy.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 5: Emily Cohen Interview
July 18th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
I remember when Emily Cohen came to Omaha back in August of 2005 to speak to our local AIGA Chapter. The information she shared about pricing and winning pitches was one of the most useful talks I’ve ever been to. Unfortunately, it would take another two months before we started podcasting, so we never had the opportunity to have her on as a guest.
Another thing I’ve learned is that if you want to see great speakers, the HOW Conference seems to have them in bunches. So, when we were asked who we wanted to interview while at the HOWlive events last month, Emily was the first guest on my list. She still does business helping design firms and such as Emily Cohen, but now works with in-house teams at Cohen Miller Consulting.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 4: Wrote for HOW, Now Writes 4 Food
July 11th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Bryn Mooth, who was the face of HOW and the HOW Conference for as long as I can remember, attended this year’s conference as an attendee. But leaving the world of writing? No, she’s just moved on to writing about food at her new site, writes4food.
So we talk of food, writing, 20 years of HOW, and then – interruptions – lot of interruptions. Ends up that after recording our last episode with Dyana Valentine and Stefan Mumaw, the staff of the conference center cleaned our recording room out. In the process, our microphones and some other items were just gone. I will give the Hyatt staff some props for quick action on this one. Too quick, as we get interrupted a number of times here. Even before recording was done (as you will hear through the breaks in this show), half of our items were found. The microphones made it back within a few hours. The other items? I assume they got thrown in a dumpster.
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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 3: Dyana Valentine & Stefan Mumaw
July 4th, 2011 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Has it been a week since Nate and I left Chicago after spending six days and five nights at the HOW Design Live event? According to the calendar?
Well, before even the first recap of the event was recorded, I had spent most of Wednesday in the windy city waiting for Nate to get there. He had spent the entire day in a vehicle with Stefan Mumaw, who was on our show talking about his Caffeine books in Season 2, driving from Kansas City. I was really hoping for some epic road trip stories, but I think other than traffic, it was pretty standard stuff.
As Stefan was with Nate, and he has a new book out (Chasing the Monster Idea: The Marketer’s Almanac for Predicting Idea Epicness), we made him stop in and chat with us and our scheduled guest.
As for the scheduled guest? Dyana Valentine speaks more about the “Perfect Pitches” we spoke about last year. This was a lot of fun, and really set off our week on the right foot. Enjoy.
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