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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Download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 9 (22meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
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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 resume. 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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Download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 8 (25 meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
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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.
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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Download The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 7 (28.5 meg) or click here to subscribe directly from the iTunes Music Store.
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