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Donovan Answers Some Listener/Reader Mail

by Donovan Beery on April 24, 2008 at 9:48 am
Posted In: Donovan Beery

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.

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The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 7: Top 5 Designer Office Things

by Nate Voss on April 23, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show

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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,

–nv–

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└ Tags: design, designer, office, polyfro
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Learned from Contracting

by Donovan Beery on April 16, 2008 at 11:58 am
Posted In: Donovan Beery

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:

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└ Tags: contract design, contracting, freelance, graphic design
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The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 6: Invisible Paycheck

by Nate Voss on April 9, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show

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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 —

–nv–

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└ Tags: graphic design, internships, portfolio, summer intern, tips
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Learned from Freelancing

by Donovan Beery on April 9, 2008 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Donovan Beery

During my first job it was encouraged that I started freelancing. After all, working on just one website all day, every day, could start to burn you out a bit – and make you start losing that creative spark that keeps you loving this sort of work. My freelancing technically ended at the same time as my fourth job. It’s at that time, just over six years ago, that I went full-time working for my own company. The work started out the same, it just wasn’t referred to as ‘freelance’ anymore.

As before, these are listed in no particular order, but since I get asked more about freelance advice than than any other in the field of design, there are ten this time:

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