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This week we bring back Brandon Herbel and Steve Gordon to, wait, let me go back for a minute first. When chatting at River City Social Club, next door to my office, with Steve and Brandon a while back, I found out they were super early adopters of the Adobe Creative Cloud. They liked the [...]

Last week, the Omaha design community witnessed a double-header of an event, featuring Aaron Draplin. Starting with a luncheon hosted by the great people at the American Advertising Federation – Omaha, and an evening talk hosted by AIGA Nebraska. In between this busy day was the recording of a podcast with AIGA Nebraska board members [...]

Is it really getting to that time of the year? The graduating of the design students? According to the portfolio reviews going on around here, I guess it is. So this week, I bring in Steve Gordon and Brandon Herbel to give advice to the students out there. The Reflex Blue Show

John Henry Müller is definitely a household name in the Omaha Design community. His involvement with such things as Big Omaha, The Mastercraft Building and the I Live in Omaha project are simply legendary around these parts. So when the news hit the presses that John’s famous web-shop “What Cheer” would be leaving the world [...]

When I first heard that world-renown “Drawsigner” and long-time RBS friend, Von Glitschka was starting to charge 5 dollars for custom logos – I did a double-take. “How could this be?” Then I saw what he called this new design product: “5ive Minute Logo“. Brilliant. Donovan and I could instantly see what Von was doing: [...]

Every year AAF Omaha hosts Meet the Pros – an awesome two-day conference that brings top-notch professionals from all around the region and country, to inspire the next generation of designers and advertisers. One of this year’s pros was Stefan Mumaw – prolific author and frequent guest on The Reflex Blue Show. We invited Stefan [...]

Has it been a week since Nate and I left Chicago after spending six days and five nights at the HOW Design Live event? According to the calendar? Well, before even the first recap of the event was recorded, I had spent most of Wednesday in the windy city waiting for Nate to get there. [...]

Before our trip back from the 2010 How Conference we took a few minutes to wrap up the experience just outside of the closing keynote. Amy Hawk, Stefan Mumaw of Reign, Justin Ahrens of Rule 29, and Von Glitschka all stop by as well. If you want more, follow Justin’s Designer Sobriety, get Von’s amazing presentation, or learn [...]

After speaking with Mike Adair and Bob Holt at Hallmark, the next stop on our Kansas City podcast tour was to find Stefan Mumaw at Reign. As we pulled up to the entry, we noticed Hammerpress Letterpress and Design Studio, and decided to stop by a bit later in the day to see the presses. [...]

When I told my friend Ryan I was going to the HOW Conference in Austin this year, he said I had to go see the hoops&yoyo presentation. I think I probably nodded and smiled like I knew what he was talking about – but I had no clue. Obviously I had not stopped into a [...]

Well – here it is, folks: the annual “Superb-Owl” Spectactular show. Every year 36 point grabs a group of design friends together, and guest host Tom Nemitz leads the discussion on the TOP Super Bowl commercials. This year’s ensemble cast included Donovan Beery, Ben Lueders, Steve Gordon, Ashley McFeely and Tom Nemitz. Here’s the semi-finalists [...]

I was instantly drawn into Eric Madsen‘s Design Camp presentation by his deep sense of story and self-awareness. At first it was hard to see how his talk had anything to do with design – as it started simply with memories and photographs from his childhood years in Texas. But as his story progressed, I [...]

I have to admit, before talking to Matthew Doty (Lifetime Fitness) and Fred Beecher (The Nerdery) – I may not have actually known what “UX” meant. (I may have even mistakenly believed that “UX” was what you call those harmful rays the sun gives off.) Either way – to my surprise, User eXperience design is a [...]

When you listen to Ron and Brent of YYES design – you immediately forget that the world of graphic design can often be a stressful and competitive place. As they explain in this interview, Brent and Ron named their unique firm YYES (pronounced “YYYYES!!!”) because of their positive, playful approach to graphic design. Listening to [...]

For many design conference attendees, the conference highlight is often the exhibit hall. Hundreds of eager designers flood a large room looking for opportunities to discover sweet design-related products – and fill a giant bag with sweet design–related trinkets that probably won’t fit in their suitcases. At Design Camp 2012 held by AIGA Minnesota, there [...]