The Reflex Blue Show : A Graphic Design Podcast

Keni Thacker was in Omaha to kick off the On Brand Conference just blocks from my office a couple of weeks ago. First off, big thanks goes out to AAF Nebraska, AIGA Nebraska, AMA Omaha, and PRSA Nebraska for once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Keni Thacker: The Reflex Blue Show #235 appeared first on 36 Point.

My final podcast from HOW Design Live in Boston this year was with Danielle Hughes. She discusses her talk on “Personality Brand” (instead of what people usually use, which is their personal brand). We also discuss differentiating yourself through how you go[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Danielle Hughes: The Reflex Blue Show #234 appeared first on 36 Point.

Fonz Morris, a ‘deadass SMART effing product designer,’ stopped by to chat during the HOW Design Live in Boston this year. We talk about his journey to becoming a Lead Product Designer at Netflix; giving back through launching a mentorship program that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Fonz Morris: The Reflex Blue Show #233 appeared first on 36 Point.

Zipeng Zhu stopped by to chat during the HOW Design Live in Boston this year. He was spending the previous days changing a lot of the talk he would give, still called “Rainbow”, which he describes as using as a metaphor about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Zipeng Zhu: The Reflex Blue Show #232 appeared first on 36 Point.

So much happened during HOW Design Live in Boston this year, that I barely left the convention center at all. On the middle day though, I did make my way the three blocks to Johnny Cupcakes, and then across the street to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Stefan Mumaw and Nate Voss: The Reflex Blue Show #231 appeared first on 36 Point.

Robyn Kanner met with me at HOW Design Live in Boston to talk about her talk on the last ‘6 Novembers’. We also talk about her love of New Wave film, her work as the Senior Creative Advisor at Biden for President, her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Robyn Kanner: The Reflex Blue Show #230 appeared first on 36 Point.

Gary Kopervas (Syndicated Cartoonist, and SVP Creative Strategy at Finch Brands), met with me at HOW Design Live in Boston. We discuss his ‘Doodle or Die’ workshop focusing on getting the ideas out of the the back of your brain, and onto paper[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Gary Kopervas: The Reflex Blue Show #229 appeared first on 36 Point.

Rania Svoronou (Executive Design Director at IBM), was at HOW Design Live in Boston, and sat down to talk about how to be a resilient leader. We also discuss why and how designers are, by nature, very resilient – and how we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Rania Svoronou: The Reflex Blue Show #228 appeared first on 36 Point.

Justin Ahrens, Jeff Bloom, Michele Pistone, and Kelly Wang discuss the last day of 2022’s HOW Design Live in Boston. What a great event, and one that feels way too short. That being said, HOW once again packed in more sessions than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2022, Conference Recap 3 of 3 : Justin Ahrens, Jeff Bloom, Michele Pistone, Kelly Wang appeared first on 36 Point.

Justin Ahrens, Ti Chang, Stephen Gates, Jamie Saunders, Ahbleza Sellars, and Nicole Slaw discuss the second day of 2022’s HOW Design Live in Boston. Every conference has many things you remember, but always that one thing that you remember first. Sometimes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2022, Conference Recap 2 of 3 : Justin Ahrens, Ti Chang, Stephen Gates, Jamie Saunders, Ahbleza Sellars, Nicole Slaw appeared first on 36 Point.

Bill Gardner, Andrew Gibbs, Patty Lennon, Michael Roderick, and Terri Trespicio discuss the first day of 2022’s HOW Design Live in Boston. It was great to be back among so many creatives at the HOW Conference. The event, as usual, went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2022, Conference Recap 1 of 3 : Bill Gardner, Andrew Gibbs, Patty Lennon, Michael Roderick, Terri Trespicio appeared first on 36 Point.

Justin Kemerling stops by The Reflex Blue Show to talk about his new book, In the Middle of Everything. Written 10 years after opening Justin Kemerling Design Co., the book does a great job of capturing a design career in, well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Justin Kemerling: The Reflex Blue Show #227 appeared first on 36 Point.

Karen Torok gave the closing day keynote at AAF Nebraska’s Meet the Pros—a student event that I wish all markets had something similar to. AAF Nebraska does an amazing job on this event (disclosure: I served on the committee this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Karen Torok: The Reflex Blue Show #226 appeared first on 36 Point.

Nikki Villagomez stopped through Omaha, Nebraska to give the opening day keynote at AAF Nebraska’s Meet the Pros—a fantastic student event that’s been going on for quite a while (like, well over 60 years now). She does a great talk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Nikki Villagomez: The Reflex Blue Show #225 appeared first on 36 Point.

Great design books are still being made, it just feels like you have to look a bit harder to find them. Snails & Monkey Tails : A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols, by Michael Arndt is one of them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Michael Arndt: The Reflex Blue Show #224 appeared first on 36 Point.

Omaha designer and illustrator Amanda Walla stopped by The Reflex Blue Show to talk about what got her into lettering, and the 100 day challenge she did. Well, we do talk about this at first, but the real reason she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Amanda Walla: The Reflex Blue Show #223 appeared first on 36 Point.

Tim Lapetino, stops by The Reflex Blue Show to discuss his upcoming book, Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon. And also, what a huge cultural phenomenon Pac-Man was / is. We also discuss how his interest in journalism and design has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Tim Lapetino: The Reflex Blue Show #222 appeared first on 36 Point.

Archie Boston stopped by The Reflex Blue Show to discuss what it was that brought him into a career in Graphic Design and Advertising in the 1960s. We also discuss his book, Fly In The Buttermilk: Memoirs of an African American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Archie Boston: The Reflex Blue Show #221 appeared first on 36 Point.

Susan Augenbraun (Events Manager at the national office of AIGA) and Paul Mendoza (who leads a digital design team at UCLA) stop by to talk about the 2nd (does this make it annual?) AIGA Portfolio Festival. Of course, no portfolio[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Susan Augenbraun and Paul Mendoza: The Reflex Blue Show #220 appeared first on 36 Point.

Christina Falzano, Managing Director of Conran Design Group stops by The Reflex Blue Show to talk about getting into branding, changes over the years in phone bills, how people interact with brands now, working in branding for the pharmaceutical and health spaces,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Christina Falzano: The Reflex Blue Show #219 appeared first on 36 Point.