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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 12: Is AIGA Wrong About Spec Work?

by on October 27, 2011 at 10:38 pm
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OH MY GOD

Spending almost an hour being made to feel like a Fox News flame-war anchor, I admit, may have gotten me into a feisty mood when it came to naming today’s show (the graphic, though, is just me being a dick because Donovan left me off the last podcast’s artwork).

The breakdown:

Barack Obama‘s campaign holds a poster contest that doesn’t maybe crosses a the line from grassroots community builder into KILL-IT-WITH-FIRE Spec Work. AIGA overreacts and/or overcompensates writes a letter. Nate and Drew who may be thankful his name actually didn’t make the show title? spar while Donovan tries to make Nate feel like an idiot for even bringing it up tries to make Nate feel like an idiot for even bringing it up.

THE FINAL VERDICT MAY SHOCK YOUno it won’t.

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The Reflex Blue Show: AIGA Pivot Conference Special: DAY ONE

by on October 14, 2011 at 11:26 am
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AIGA Pivot Day 1 Recap

Somehow I ended up in Phoenix, and so far, great. I’ll keep these posts short, as I am writing my recaps over at the Neenah Paper blog. To read those, here is my first day recap, and here is my first night recap.

But for the audio recap of Day One at Pivot on The Reflex Blue Show, we bring you AIGA Nebraska President Craig Hughes, AIGA National Board Member Drew Davies, and AIGA National President Doug Powell.

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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 11: Staying Relevant as a Freelancer

by on October 3, 2011 at 12:12 pm
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How we made it through half of a season without having Steve Gordon, Jr. swing by to guest on a show is beyond me – and a problem we decided to fix immediately. So, welcome back to the show Steve! This time around, we start by talking of the Field Paper show in Omaha, Nebraska, which led to me getting this week’s topic from the immensely talented Cathy Solarana. We basically talk about staying relevant, and positioning yourself as a freelancer when you are no longer just a year or two outside of school.

We spend the second half of the show going over all sorts of things: Steve’s new book (which he just found out about this month), 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative (ends up that Rockport is packaging his previous book with two others in a new volume); Steve judging the HOW International Design Awards with Ann Willoughby and Mary Zalla; other upcoming F+W Media competitions; me blogging for Neenah Paper at the upcoming AIGA Pivot Conference in Phoenix; and what we are working on right now.

I’ll be back with daily podcast recaps from the big Phoenix event in a couple weeks, and we’ll be back with new shows starting in a month. Thanks for listening, and here is a link to the behind-the-scenes work on the new Neenah Paper promotions Design Army did (the ones we keep referencing in this episode).

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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 10: I Have an Inkling for CS5.5

by on September 8, 2011 at 7:51 am
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This week’s show — new and recorded live while the microphones were on — is an operatic examination of Things. We spend a slight amount of time recapping our recappings of HOWlive twenty-eleven (presumably for the final time); the finer points of local AIGA awards shows; a magical pen that records your drawings and turns them into more drawings; finally begin to delve into Adobe Creative Suite Five Period Five (a conversation will continue, dear friends, as we endeavor to uncover its dark, dark secrets); and do a little, tiny bit of dribbbling. Maybe more?

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The Reflex Blue Show, Season 4, Episode 9: David Sherwin Interview

by on August 15, 2011 at 8:23 am
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David Sherwin Interview

David Sherwin of frog joins us for the last of the seven shows we recorded from the 2011 HOW Conferences in Chicago. A big thanks goes out to the staff at HOW for helping us secure an interview room, and allowing us to walk around the closing evening events with a microphone recording our daily recaps. Great people at the organization.

As for David, he works for one of the big shops, and speaks some about their work, some about his sweet book – Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, a bit about his ChangeOrder blog, and some about help in setting up the upcoming HOW Interactive Conference (November 2-4, 2011 in San Francisco).

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