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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 22: Interviewing for a Graphic Design Job

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Every now and then we decide to get serious - a 2 credit stock photo of a handshake serious - this is one of those times.

On past shows we've covered freelancing, getting your portfolio ready for an interview (still one of our best podcasts), and getting an internship. But sometimes you just need a straight-up job, and that usually takes an interview. To share the perspective of a younger designer in the this process, we bring in the talented Chris Kelly

And a special thanks goes out to Mig Reyes for the student tip. When Mig was on the Season 1 finale, he said he'd provide the student tips for Season 2 of the Reflex Blue Show, and he delivered.

We'll be back in a month with Season 3, which will also include daily recaps from the HOW Conference in June.


36 Point Superb Owl Spectacular i i

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We bring back last year's Superb Owl i host Tom Nemitz, as well as guests Steve Gordon and Rob Maguire to recap the ads played during Sunday's football game. Nicole Blauw also makes her first appearance on The Reflex Blue Show, and brings the knowledge that the rest of us lack on more topics than I care to speak of.

The Superb Owl Spectacular is probably the most fun we have recording a podcast each year - enjoy.


The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 21: Secret Penguins and iPads

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Last Saturday, What Cheer was holding an open house to celebrate their new office space. They may not have had a Street Fighter II machine in the lobby like we do, but there was an Elvis pinball (TCB!) machine in the building. They also had a camera set up to automatically take pictures every 10 or 15 seconds, leaving prrof that Nate and I were both there. The evening also gave us a chance to see the new Secret Penguin office next door (still under construction), and talk with the head penguin himself, Dave Nelson.

Dave had previously been a guest on the Be A Design Cast (#28: The Freelance Show) when he was part of Divvy Collective, and a guest of The Reflex Blue Show (#11: Epic Fail) when he shared office space with What Cheer. As Dave is in a two-week limbo between offices, and working out of his house, we figured it was an ideal time to steal an hour of his time to talk about the industry.

The big buzz is all about the iPad (which we had things to say about) and how to get work in this economy (which it ends up we didn't have much to say about, so it's best to just listen to Michael Bierut talk about clients). We end by speaking about what Secret Penguin has been up to lately: getting skateparks in Omaha, an award-winning website for an OB/GYN, and all sorts of Martial Arts.

And of course, Mig Reyes brings us the student tip. And Dave supplied the Red Bull Sugarfree.


The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 20: Twitter Show 2: Throwback to the Future

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It was exactly one year ago today that Nate set up the @36Point Twitter account, and told me to use it. That weekend we drove to Fort Smith to help judge the AAF-Fort Smith ADDY show, and documented the travel with regular tweeting. The following week, we decided we'd ask our wonderful show listeners to ask us our take on anything design related via Twitter, and recorded our first Twitter Show (The Reflex Blue Show #26).

A year later, we figured it was time again - a whole show talking about what was sent to us just an hour or so before recording. @nick_merritt@iKitty, and @notoriouslb3 ask - and we answer.

For those who like a little more detail on what we cover: view Al's very cool Haiti poster, check out some vertically-striped socks, turn ahead the clock, witness the return of a 'hillbilly', love or hate a serif, view a movie, drool over some crowns, dress like a Skywalker, and listen to Mig Reyes tell you how to be successful.


The Reflex Blue Show, Season 2, Episode 19: The Aught Years in Design (2000 - 2009)

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How far have we come in design over the past 10 years? Think butterfly ballots and iPods

How far has technology evolved between Y2K and the end of 2009? Obviously not enough to where a laptop running GarageBand and iChat can handle more then 15 minutes of audio before crashing with memory problems is the answer to that one.

The aughts also brought designers the merger of Adobe and Macromedia, the demise of the rolodex and a change in how stock imagery is bought.  

So this week we bring Steve Gordon and Adam Nielsen out of the frozen lands of Hoth (or Omaha, it's the same place this week) to recap the last ten years with Nate and I, while making predictions of the next ten.

And how can a design podcast on the past ten years not mention the design blogs, the design podcasts and forums? We can't - we cover them as well.

As the show progresses, it becomes like the Highlander, "in the end, there can be only one." The technology delays kill the time we have with Adam. Nate is soon to follow (and since Nate was stranded on a remote area of Hoth, and had to conference in, we immediately moved to more traditional recording methods, making the sound instantly better). Steve and I are left dueling for the Immortality that we both feel destined for until Mig Reyes swoops in with the final say and wins the game

Do you have some wild predictions of your own for the next ten years? Be sure to leave them here.     

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