Instead of our traditional impromptu attendee interviews for our second day recap- we brought together an amazing collection of HOW Design Live friends- for one long, unedited, unscripted conversation. The results were… well, check them out for yourself! Justin Ahrens www.rule29.com Luke Mysse www.lukemysse.com Steve Gordon www.rdqlus.com Matt Porter www.neenahpaperblog.com  Von Glitschka www.vonglitschka.com   -Ben […]

As Donovan and I packed up our recording gear to interview HOW Design Live attendees for our day 3 recap- we suddenly realized a commotion right outside of our recording room. Sure enough, a fancy speaker reception was coming together! So, instead of finding our way back to the ballroom- we set up a makeshift […]

On the last night of the HOW Design Live conference in Boston- Donovan and I grabbed our podcasting gear and headed for the portfolio review hall. We were hoping to grab a couple attendees for the recap before reviewing some killer portfolios. What happened was much better… We immediately recognized illustrator Kelsey Grafton from our […]

All good things must come to end, and that’s exactly what happened with the HOW Design Live conference in Boston- it ended. But before it did- we had the chance to talk to conference goers Art Director Bryant Hardwick, Creative Specialist Caron Streibich, and Associate professor at Roger Williams University Valerie Sloan. In this final […]

For the real long-time listeners out there, you may remember the first time we spoke with Robert Brunner when he was a partner over at Pentagram, and we were on The Be A Design Cast. Totally overwhelmed just by sitting next to the guy on how good he seemed to be at what he did, […]

Spoiler alert – The Pitch; Season 1, Episode 6 – JDRF: Muse & Bozell will be discussed below, and in this show as if you have already seen it – just a warning. AMC has been running a reality show for the past few weeks showcasing Ad Agencies giving pitches to clients – getting the […]

Chris Kelly has been on the show a few times, but his first appearance at the end of Season 2 was one of the most popular shows we have ever done. Probably because we spoke about interviewing for graphic design jobs. Ends up he backed that up with a full time job over at Hayneedle. […]

Kevin McConkey not only helps run one of the hottest design agencies in Chicago (Grip), he’s just a lot of fun to talk to. So the real question is, why did it take us so long to have him on the show? I really don’t have a good answer, but I’m glad we finally corrected […]

Ben Lueders and I were trying to motivate ourselves to come up with a topic for the next podcast, when we started thinking about what would motivate us to find such a topic. That was all the motivation we needed  – we decided to talk about “finding design motivation.” We had already lined up Steve […]

Justin Ahrens of Rule29 makes his return (does he ever really go away? do we really want him to go away? why does he keep hanging around?) to The Reflex Blue Show. This time though, he brings with us a new book (note: I really did enjoy the book, Ben’s still reading it, we both recommend it […]