Brandi Parker, Founder and Brand-Level Sustainability Consultant of Parker Brands, meets up with The Reflex Blue Show while at the 2024 HOW Design Live conference in Denver, Colorado. We talk about her and Fe Amarante‘s conference opening talk on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Brandi Parker: The Reflex Blue Show #264 appeared first on 36 Point.

Rachel Mae Zeolla, Creative Director at NBCUniversal, meets up with The Reflex Blue Show while at the 2024 HOW Design Live conference in Denver, Colorado. We talk about her being eaten by a shark on The Last Sharknado: It’s About[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Rachel Mae Zeolla: The Reflex Blue Show #263 appeared first on 36 Point.

Alex Center meets up with The Reflex Blue Show while at the 2024 HOW Design Live conference in Denver, Colorado (I should mention that his company Center did the branding for this year’s event as well). We talk about his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Alex Center: The Reflex Blue Show #262 appeared first on 36 Point.

Aaron Draplin stops by, I mean, more like I crashed his merch booth in the lobby to talk to him about closing down the 2024 HOW Design Live in Denver. And wow, that merch table has grown over the years[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2024, Conference Recap 3 of 3 : Aaron Draplin, Bill Gardner, Stephen Gates, Rick Griffith appeared first on 36 Point.

Amy Conover, HOW Design’s Brand and Content Director; show attendees, and fellow Omaha area designers Anne Hughes and Erin Pille; HOW Ambassadors Keith Smith and Darcy Hinrichs; and Jason Wedekind of Genghis Kern discuss the first two days of another[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2024, Conference Recap 2 of 3 : Amy Conover, Darcy Hinrichs, Anne Hughes, Erin Pille, Keith Smith, Jason Wedekind appeared first on 36 Point.

Debbie Millman joined me backstage just as the 2024 HOW Design Live was starting up. We talk about The Shop at Matter, her upcoming book, “Love Letter to a Garden“, breaking the elevator at the San Francisco Sterling Brands office[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2024, Conference Recap 1 of 3 : Debbie Millman appeared first on 36 Point.

Liz Hunt, CEO of DayCloud Studios, sits down with me in the DayCloud penthouse suite located in The Blackstone District of Omaha, Nebraska to talk about the advice she gives to those starting up their own creative business. We also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Liz Hunt: The Reflex Blue Show #261 appeared first on 36 Point.

Tessa Porter, a candy scientist and founder of Sprinkk, was the closing keynote speaker at the 2024 OnBrand Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Recorded from the event on July 25, we spoke just before her closing the event and handing out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Tessa Porter: The Reflex Blue Show #260 appeared first on 36 Point.

Kathleen Riessen, the business manager at Applied Art & Technology in Des Moines, was the opening keynote speaker at the 2024 OnBrand Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Recorded from the event on July 25, we spoke just after her opening the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Kathleen Riessen: The Reflex Blue Show #259 appeared first on 36 Point.

Todd Coats & Elliot Strunk, the hosts of Two Designers Walk Into a Bar (a podcast about iconic design and popular culture), well, walk into The Reflex Blue Show. We talk about their influences in the design field, pop culture, listening[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Todd Coats & Elliot Strunk: The Reflex Blue Show #258 appeared first on 36 Point.

Katrina Torrijos, an Adobe Express Evangelist, was in Omaha a couple of weeks ago for Adobe Create Now. We recorded this episode in a green room / nuclear bunker / hidden lounge below The Durham Museum just hours before Katrina[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Katrina Torrijos: The Reflex Blue Show #257 appeared first on 36 Point.

I met up with Tad Carpenter in the green room at The Funny Bone Omaha of all places. That’s right, AAF Nebraska’s annual Meet the Pros upped their game on the location and went full-on comedy club! Tad was just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Tad Carpenter: The Reflex Blue Show #256 appeared first on 36 Point.

Kit Hinrichs! Any time I see design I consider good, and then see Kit’s work…well he’s just at a different level than everyone else. And in case you think he’s not, check out his new book, NARRATIVE DESIGN: A Fifty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Kit Hinrichs: The Reflex Blue Show #255 appeared first on 36 Point.

Clement Mok, who was just awarded a Cooper Hewitt 2023 National Design Award for Digital Design, stops by The Reflex Blue Show to talk about his path into the design field, and finding his way to Apple to work on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Clement Mok: The Reflex Blue Show #254 appeared first on 36 Point.

Mike Schnaidt stops by The Reflex Blue Show to talk about his new book – Creative Endurance: 56 Rules for Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Your Goals. A practical sort of self-help guide for graphic designers. We also talk about his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Mike Schnaidt: The Reflex Blue Show #253 appeared first on 36 Point.

Katie Risch McAdams, the Chief Marketing Officer at Basis Technologies, was the lunchtime keynote speaker at this year’s OnBrand Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Recorded from the event on July 13, just after the taco bar had been put away and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Katie Risch McAdams: The Reflex Blue Show #252 appeared first on 36 Point.

Ross Asdourian was the closing keynote speaker at this year’s OnBrand Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Recorded from the event on July 13, right next to where the taco bar was now being taken down, Ross and I discuss the importance of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Ross Asdourian: The Reflex Blue Show #251 appeared first on 36 Point.

Whitney Warne was the opening keynote of this year’s OnBrand Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Recorded from the event on July 13, right next to where the taco bar was being set-up, Whitney and I discuss her coaching and consulting business,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Whitney Warne: The Reflex Blue Show #250 appeared first on 36 Point.

Justin Dauer, who is no stranger to The Reflex Blue Show, and author of Cultivating a Creative Culture and it’s second edition, Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspiration, joins me to discuss his new book, in fulfillment:
the designer’s journey.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Justin Dauer: The Reflex Blue Show #249 appeared first on 36 Point.

As the last of this year’s HOW Design Live podcast interviews, Jada Britto joins me to discuss her talk on, ‘Reigniting Hope: Breaking Out of the Checkbox Mentality.’ I had met Jada the day before at the conference, and immediately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Jada Britto: The Reflex Blue Show #248 appeared first on 36 Point.

Emily Mills was at the HOW Design Live conference in Nashville to talk about transition as a creative professional. And as the founder of Sketch Academy, she was also spending quite a bit of time sketch noting the event itself[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Emily Mills: The Reflex Blue Show #247 appeared first on 36 Point.

Carl Gerhards was at the HOW Design Live conference in Nashville to talk about the rebrand, I mean, ‘the next generation of the Pepsi logo‘. It’s rare to have such a large company make a shift in their identity in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Carl Gerhards: The Reflex Blue Show #246 appeared first on 36 Point.

Shayna Kulik was at the HOW Design Live conference in Nashville this year to talk about how art and culture affect pattern and color. Just a look around any room immediately makes me realize how many patterns I see during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Shayna Kulik: The Reflex Blue Show #245 appeared first on 36 Point.

Ben Greengrass and Jessie McGuire of ThoughtMatter seemed to be everywhere at this year’s HOW Design Live conference in Nashville. They gave a talk titled, “Creative Bravery: The Importance of Friendship, Humanity and Embracing Vulnerability to Break Creative Boundaries”; ran a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post Ben Greengrass & Jessie McGuire: The Reflex Blue Show #244 appeared first on 36 Point.