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.
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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!
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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,
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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 --
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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.
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 Episode 4 was recorded, once again, with the generosity of Concordia University and The Professor Paul Berkbigler, to who at this point we owe pretty much our entire show. Hot on the heels of Stefan Bucher's appearance at the school a few weeks ago, none other than Jim Sherraden of Hatch Show Print fame was in town and we had the incredible opportunity to sit down with him for breakfast and a show (separately, unfortunately) to talk about Hatch -- past, present, and future. Jim turned out to be one of the kindest people I've ever met, and was very gracious with his time and his stories. Hatch continues to be the best place to get a poster on the whole planet, so if you haven't faxed them your love for a while, I whole-heartedly suggest it.
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 On this week's episode of The Reflex Blue Show, Donovan, David Kadavy and I discuss -- at length -- Adobe's new Font Folio Education Essentials, and scarcely anything else. Type fans grab a cold one, but type-snobs are advised to skip the majority of the recording due to the vast levels of typographic ignorance on display here. We do manage a fairly thorough discussion of font-pricing and value, as well as cover the AFFEE from top to bottom.
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Stefan Bucher is the captain of creative passion. You want to feel inspired about the potential of your own work? You want to feel guilty about being burnt out? Hang out with Stefan for a day. On this, our second episode, we did just that. Stefan was, surprisingly, in Nebraska for several days painting a monster mural for Concordia University, and they were gracious enough to spare a few minutes of his time for us; during which we recorded this show and shot video for the short film Stefan Bucher: Monster Maker, where he created the monster we are putting up for auction. Hope you enjoy the show and we'll see you next week!
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Click here to download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 2 (22 meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
Welcome to the first episode of The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery! On this week's episode, we welcome our good friend Steve Hartman of Creativille. Steve is a member of the AIGA Board of Directors and works a great deal with design education for K-12 when he's not pumping out pure genius at his day job. It also helps that he's one hell of a nice guy.
Next week's scheduled episode will feature Stefan Bucher, author of 100 Days of Monsters (baring any airport or travel shenanigans!)
Click here to download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 1 (16 meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
Just heard our first preview of the new music for The Reflex Blue Show, and let me just say our minds are blown.
Fans of the old music -- mixed by me in 2005, then again in 2006, in Garage Band using their freebie basic tracks -- may be temporarily taken aback by the new tracks, but only long enough for them to hear the jump in quality that can only be described as light years beyond the original music. So out are the stock baselines, stock drums, stock wakka-wakkas and in is the real music.
If you want to hear more of Steve's amazing DJ talents, you can head to his Dustlab Myspace page. I'm a big fan of Tokens and Headphones.
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Conor O says: Hard Normal Daddy by Squarepusher Kala by M.I.A. Kind of Blu
Nick Burroughs says: No specific albums, just bands... Do Make Say Think Godspee
Prescott Perez-Fox says: Albums that always light up my brain: John Coltrane - Cresc
Steve G says: okay here's what I have in serious rotation giving flavor to
Lenny Brown says: Radiohead - Every Album The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles T
Adam Duquette says: I have to say, the ONLY thing that is on my playlist is the
walkingstick says: -Sigur Ros-Takk -U2-Achtung Baby -The Hold Steady-Boys and G
onlyone says: i wouldn't call them my top 5 albums but they get the heavie
Cody Peterson says: Top 5 Albums (at the moment) to design to. 1. The Books - L
Donovan Beery says: My list is: Miles Davis; Bitches Brew Led Zeppelin; II Elvi