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A graphic design podcast created by the authors of Be A Design Group covering the news and topics (and off-topics) of the graphic design industry. Hosted by Nate Voss, Donovan Beery, and Tom Nemitz

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Be A Design Cast 53 : The Last BADCast

This is the last one ever. Yes it is. Oh, and Steve Gordon is presenting at the HOW Conference again. Go see that. —nv— Right click to download the last ever Be A Design Cast to your computer (36mb), or subscribe directly from iTunes. What are we doing next? Rocking your face off, baby.

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Be A Design Cast LII : Superbowl Spectacular III!

The best Superbowl commercial recap of all Superbowl commercial recaps. Why? Because of this: Does that set the tone for you? Are you not entertained? Featuring the return of Tom Nemitz, Design Princess® Ashley McFeely, Robert “I Can Has Cheeseburger?” Maguire, and Steve RDQlus Gordon, as well as old hats Donovan and I. A full hour of unhinged greatness just for you. Nate Voss podcast [at] beadesigngroup [dot] com Right click to download Be A Design Cast LII to your com ...

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Be A Design Cast 51 : Boise State

Last December traveled to the fair city of Boise, Idaho to speak to a group of promising young designers who were soon to enter the workforce as recent graduates. They were a good group, and proved to be a lot of fun, whether it was drinking and dancing with their professors, walking home in the freezing rain barefoot, or having their friends take awkward photos of me from a distance making “gestures” in the foreground. Our 24-hours in Boise was one of the most enjoyable trips ...

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Be A Design Cast 50th Anniversary : Steven Heller

I met Steven Heller at a party, in a line at the bar. I knew that in a few days time I would conducting this interview, which I spent a great deal of time preparing for (admittedly unusual for us), and yet that still didn’t keep my knees from shaking or my heartbeat at a reasonable level. It wasn’t fear or anxiety or anything like that. It was just a moment. Make that a Moment, with a capital “M.” I’ll ruminate about meeting my design icons at another time, l ...

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Be A Design Cast 49.5 : Spare Parts!

As Season 2 comes to an end we took a look through the Be A Design Cast Archives for all of the little bits and pieces we never go to air. So we grabbed our favorites and made a show! Featuring Steve Gordon and Adam Nielsen, Donovan’s letterhead, Nate’s swearing, and a 5-Minute Portfolio Review for one of our listeners and friends from AI in Chicago, who may or may not have been named after the enemies in Top Gun. I dare you not to have fun listening to this show! Dare you! & ...

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Be A Design Cast 49 : Brett Wickens

Listening back to our interview with Brett Wickens of MetaDesign, Donovan and I were struck by a great number of things. One is how we seem to be able to carry on the BADCast format well enough via iChat with someone we’ve never met who is half a country away (this is our third such long-distance show). Two is how awesome Brett Wickens is and the rest of the numbers fall from that. Just now, trying to fit in all the works of note that Brett has accomplished in his long career into t ...

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Be A Design Cast 48 : Victor Rodriguez

Victor Rodriguez has been a friend of the Be A Design Cast for many a year now. He and Donovan go way back and I’ve had the opportunity to hang with him a handful of times as well. Sadly, every time we get to hang out, we’re somehow not in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. So that sucks, but only for us. Victor (of Eurie Creative) was named Ambassador of the Arts by AIGA Nevada in 2004, and his work has appeared in HOW, PRINT ID, and other pubs the world over. He’s made ...

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Be A Design Cast 47 : Klindt Parker

Klindt Parker is a man. A Man, I tell you, with capital M. Klindt is the Design Manager for a small coffee shop in Seattle (and the rest of the livable Earth) called Starbucks. Now this fact alone put him into my pantheon of design heroes, but as you’ll note while listening, Klindt is a really great, fun-loving guy. Makes you feel like all of that feel-good design you see when you walk into a Starbucks actually comes from someone’s heart, rather than the soulless mega-corpor ...

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Be A Design Cast 46 : Jenn Visocky O'Grady

Welcome back for another exciting episode of the Be A Design Cast! This week we are proud to bring you our interview with Jenn Visocky O’Grady, co-author of A Design’s Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need. Which is an awesome book, no matter what you think of really long subtitles. In addition to the book, we spend a lot of time talking about the finer points of design education (Jenn is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design ...

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Be A Design Cast 45 : Shaun Inman

Every now and then we like to branch out on the Be A Design Cast and interview people who are not designers, per se, but who have made a great deal of impact on the design world. Shaun Inman is one of those men. When we traveled to Nashville to meet Shaun, I must admit I was expecting him to be older. Instead he was just about my age with the computer wisdom of 75 strong men. He has transitioned from designer to developer and is responsible for Mint, Inman Flash Replacement, and Designo ...

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Be A Design Cast 44 : Debbie Millman : How to Think Like A Great Graphic Designer

This week we continue our Nashville coverage with a return visit from one of our favorite people in the whole, wide world, Debbie Millman. She has a new book coming out, you may have heard, titled How To Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, which is releasing on October 30th and oddly does not include interviews with Donovan or myself. Ahem. In one of the more earnest moments in BADCast history, Donovan shoves all of that to the side because just before we walked into Debbie’s roo ...

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Be A Design Cast 43 : Marian Bantjes

Holy crap. Marian Bantjes (Bant-geez) is freaking talented. Chances are that if you listen to our show you are a savvy enough designer to know this. You may not know that a few short years ago she was burnt out and living in Canada (she still does that), and was considering leaving design behind her completely. It was a t-shirt contest on SpeakUp, a site to which she contributes as a writer, that brought her back into the fold. Picture this: you enter a design contest, actually win, and ...

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Be A Design Cast 42 : Von Glitschka

Now that we are finally back from Nashville we can bring you the first of four Think Tank Be A Design Casts. On this show we interview illustrator extraordinaire Von Glitschka, whose name I can proudly say that I now know how to spell from memory alone. Von has a large presence on the interwebs with Vonster.com, Art Backwash, Illustration Class, Keyboard Characters, and The Illustrative Designer podcast, which updates, like, all the freaking time. (sorry Von! I couldn’t resist!) We ...

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Be A Design Cast 41 : The Road to Hell

Some years ago, Milton Glaser wrote a short article for AIGA (later reprinted in Metropolis Magazine in 2002) called the Road to Hell. It reads very much as a moral compass for graphic designers; the more you would answer in the affirmative, the closer you are to burning forever in a firy pit filled with drop shadows and Copperplate Gothic. Click on the link above or in the show to read the article, and follow along as Donovan, Steve, Adam and I tackle the list one-by-one to find out how ...

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Be A Design Cast 40 : Back to Design School

Featuring the Top Ten Things To Do When You Get Back To Design School. Also this week we delve into Halo 3 Mountain Dew because while it is a blatant marketing ploy, it is still a mixture of two things we love. And the can rocks. We do all this with aplomb, and with the Design Princess herself, Ashley McFeely. Finally our intro/outro for BADCast 40 comes from K-Dub so non-design gangstas watch out. There’s some other news I forgot? That’s right. The Be A Design Cast is going ...

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Be A Design Cast 39 : The Green Show

Better late than never we present the Be A Design Cast Guide to Going Green. Well, less of a guide, more of a conversation about how to begin the process. Going green (or as the AIGA folks like to call it, sustainable) is not as hard as it may seem, but it does include an awful lot more consideration than just printing recycled paper and using soy-based ink. The biggest obstacle to going green as a graphic designer, we’ve found, is there there exists no great resource of informati ...

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Be A Design Cast 38 : Archrival

And the hits, they say, just keep on coming. Our 38th show comes to you live from the Nomad Lounge, which you no doubt read all about in last month’s STEP magazine. It’s the brainchild of midwest design firm Archrival, who you know from just about every design annual published during the past ten years. Donovan and I have known Clint! and Charles for a number of years and have wanted to get them on the show from the beginning, and they deliver in spades. We cover the history a ...

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Be A Design Cast 37.5 : HOW 2007 Man On the Street Steve Gordon

A lightning-fast Be A Design Cast coming at you this week produced almost entirely by Steve Gordon while at the HOW Conference in HotLanta. Trials, tribulations, and good times ensued. Special thanks for once again being our man-on-the-street. We’ll be back next week with a full show that, if everyone’s schedules work out, should be a blast. Thanks — —nv— podcast [at] beadesigngroup.com Right click to download Be A Design Cast 37.5 to your computer (2.5mb), or subscri ...

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Be A Design Cast 37 : The Return of Robert Brunner Interview

It’s summer, so it must be time to kick off the Be A Design Cast interview season. We get things started—and started right—with something I would not have expected in my days: The return of Robert Brunner to the Be A Design Cast. But how could we resist! Not only did Robert give an amazing interview when we visited Pentagram last year (during which you can actually hear me getting smarter), but then he went ahead and left Pentagram to form his own company, Ammunition, where he w ...

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Be A Design Cast 36 : London (2012) Calling

Don’t give people seizures! Bad design breaks the world and Europe’s grasp on cutting-edge cool comes to a halt more abrupt than Princess Diana. We cover the shame of of the London 2012 logo. After we wipe our hands clean of that mess, Donovan, Steve and I dig into some listener questions that include how to handle “celeb” designers. Also, a new feature comes to the show: The 5-Minute Review. Basically it works like this: you send us a link to your website (prefera ...

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Be A Design Cast 36 : London (2012) Calling

Don’t give people seizures! Bad design breaks the world and Europe’s grasp on cutting-edge cool comes to a halt more abrupt than Princess Diana. We cover the shame of of the London 2012 logo. After we wipe our hands clean of that mess, Donovan, Steve and I dig into some listener questions that include how to handle “celeb” designers. Also, a new feature comes to the show: The 5-Minute Review. Basically it works like this: you send us a link to your website (prefera ...

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Be A Design Cast 35.5 : Steve Gordon at the HOW Conference

Donovan and I are just beside ourselves this week, as we get to send off one of our boys to the land of HOTlanta for the 2007 HOW Conference. The BADCast’s own (and yes, we’re claiming him — hands off, ladies) Steve MF’in RDQlus Gordon will be presenting at the Conference next Monday. Next Monday at the 2:00 session, actually. Since we won’t be there to watch him run his wisdom cup over onto yonder conference attendees, we wanted to give him a proper send off on ...

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Be A Design Cast 35 : Listener Mail

This was originally intended to be show number 34.5, and run at about five minutes, but with our good friend David Kadavy back with us live via satellite, well we just sorta took the ball and ran with it. We like to say we love our listeners but that isn’t really true; we adore them. To the point where we will openly criticize the portfolios they send us on the air (it’s tough love, Oz, but love nonetheless) and answer questions that will determine the courses of their careers ...

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Be A Design Cast 34 : Delta Bonocracy

Holy late podcast, Batman! It’s a few days behind schedule, but we deliver this podcast chock-full of Drew Davies Goodness as we cover a veritable cornucopia of topics ranging from the Delta redesign (and the return of the Extreme Makeover), Design for Democracy, Pro-Bono work, and Superman Posters. I mean it really goes all the way around the world in this one. Thanks for waiting! —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 34 to your computer (17mb), or subscribe directly ...

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Be A Design Cast 34 : Delta Bonocracy

Holy late podcast, Batman! It’s a few days behind schedule, but we deliver this podcast chock-full of Drew Davies Goodness as we cover a veritable cornucopia of topics ranging from the Delta redesign (and the return of the Extreme Makeover), Design for Democracy, Pro-Bono work, and Superman Posters. I mean it really goes all the way around the world in this one. Thanks for waiting! —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 34 to your computer (17mb), or subscribe directly ...

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Be A Design Cast 33.5 : Steve's First Times

Super-dooper-uber-quick follow-up to last week’s show about how we were introduced to design. This one was recorded during a soundcheck with our main main man Steve Gordon, who got a much more interesting introduction to design than the rest of us. Next week join us as we talk about Design for Democracy and pro-bono work in general with our good friend Drew Davies (Superstar®). Sorry no links in the podcast this week! Peace out — —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cas ...

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Be A Design Cast 33.5 : Steve's First Times

Super-dooper-uber-quick follow-up to last week’s show about how we were introduced to design. This one was recorded during a soundcheck with our main main man Steve Gordon, who got a much more interesting introduction to design than the rest of us. Next week join us as we talk about Design for Democracy and pro-bono work in general with our good friend Drew Davies (Superstar®). Sorry no links in the podcast this week! Peace out — —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cas ...

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Be A Design Cast 33 : First Times

Today we go Blast From The Past style to reminisce about the first time we were introduced to graphic design. Not in the classroom, “this is my major so I guess I will learn something” way, but in the “hey holy geez… wow look at that” kind of way. We welcome back our good friend Adam Nielsen to the show to help us walk down memory lane. The second half of the show is dedicated to some hardcore business tips for new designers working solo. To help get this show o ...

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Be A Design Cast 33 : First Times

Today we go Blast From The Past style to reminisce about the first time we were introduced to graphic design. Not in the classroom, “this is my major so I guess I will learn something” way, but in the “hey holy geez… wow look at that” kind of way. We welcome back our good friend Adam Nielsen to the show to help us walk down memory lane. The second half of the show is dedicated to some hardcore business tips for new designers working solo. To help get this show o ...

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Be A Design Cast 32.5 : Horror Stories

A quick six-and-a-halfsie minute show filled with censored profanity and horror stories of bad job interviews to follow-up last week’s How to Hire A Designer podcast. Steve Gordon, Donovan and I reach near unprecidented levels of crazy in a surprisingly short amount of time. Enjoy. —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 32.5 to your computer (3mb), or subscribe directly from iTunes.

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Be A Design Cast 32.5 : Horror Stories

A quick six-and-a-halfsie minute show filled with censored profanity and horror stories of bad job interviews to follow-up last week’s How to Hire A Designer podcast. Steve Gordon, Donovan and I reach near unprecidented levels of crazy in a surprisingly short amount of time. Enjoy. —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 32.5 to your computer (3mb), or subscribe directly from iTunes.

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Be A Design Cast 32 : Ten Rules For Hiring A Designer

Be A Design Group founder Bennett Holzworth is back on the podcast this week as we delve into the seedy underbelly of hiring designers. Specifically, what not to do. Bennett lays out his Ten Rules based on his (and my) very recent experiences finding new employment. While my experience was rather short, Bennett’s was rather long. And although both worked out great in the long run, we learned a few things along the way. You may want to call this podcast “How Not To Be A Doucheb ...

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Be A Design Cast 32 : Ten Rules For Hiring A Designer

Be A Design Group founder Bennett Holzworth is back on the podcast this week as we delve into the seedy underbelly of hiring designers. Specifically, what not to do. Bennett lays out his Ten Rules based on his (and my) very recent experiences finding new employment. While my experience was rather short, Bennett’s was rather long. And although both worked out great in the long run, we learned a few things along the way. You may want to call this podcast “How Not To Be A Doucheb ...

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Be A Design Cast 31.5 : Escape From Dream Project Island

It’s been a looooong week and a half on Dream Project Island for Donovan and I, and we’re about ready to take our sun-burnt knees and action-figure designs back home to the real world. But before we go, our main-man Steve Gordon swims out for one last go ‘round. This bite-sized podcast comes in at over seven minutes, and should be just enough show to get you ready for Wednesday. So long! —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 31.5 to your computer (4mb), or ...

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Be A Design Cast 31.5 : Escape From Dream Project Island

It’s been a looooong week and a half on Dream Project Island for Donovan and I, and we’re about ready to take our sun-burnt knees and action-figure designs back home to the real world. But before we go, our main-man Steve Gordon swims out for one last go ‘round. This bite-sized podcast comes in at over seven minutes, and should be just enough show to get you ready for Wednesday. So long! —nv— Right click to download Be A Design Cast 31.5 to your computer (4mb), or ...

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Be A Design Cast 31 : Dream Project Island

The adventure of a lifetime begins on Dream Project Island! Each of us must decide on what our dream project would be from five different categories: Identity, Packaging, Product, Environment, and “Wild Card.” Donovan and I are joined, as advertised, by Design Princess Ashley McFeely on the sun-baked shores of the isle where dream come true. And just to sweeten the deal for our listeners a bit more we got the straight dope (or as Donovan would say, the correct answers) from so ...

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Be A Design Cast 30.5 : All Aboard For Dream Project Island

It’s a little halfsies show this week, just to get you prepared for next week’s adventure-filled journey to the exotic Dream Project Island. Located 25 miles south of last season’s Typography Island, Dream Project Island is where all of your wildest design-job fantasies come true. Or something like that. Big welcome back to Design Princess Ashley McFeely for this week and next week’s show, where we’ll also hear from some of the industry’s heaviest hitte ...

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Be A Design Cast 30 : Playing Well With Others

On our last show we spent most of our time talking about how to get a job in graphic design, this one we spend talking about what to do once you get there. And no, we don’t mean sitting at a desk and messin’ around in Illustrator or InDesign, we mean designing as a part of a team! It’s tricky, especially when you’re just starting out, so Donovan, Stevie “RDQlus” Gordon and I walk through a few sordid tales of the matter. Also I’m not sure if any ...

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Be A Design Cast 30 : Playing Well With Others

On our last show we spent most of our time talking about how to get a job in graphic design, this one we spend talking about what to do once you get there. And no, we don’t mean sitting at a desk and messin’ around in Illustrator or InDesign, we mean designing as a part of a team! It’s tricky, especially when you’re just starting out, so Donovan, Stevie “RDQlus” Gordon and I walk through a few sordid tales of the matter. Also I’m not sure if any ...

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Be A Design Cast 29.5 : RDQlus Portfolio Tip

Weekly content starts NOW on the Be A Design Cast! These shorter, sleeker, sexier nuggets of podcasts will hit on the off-weeks of our until-now biweekly show. Aside from expanding on previous shows, reading listener mail, or covering topics that we would normally overlook, these .5’ers should be what you need to satiate your BADCasting thirst. Today our main man Steve Gordon drops some more portfolio truth bombs to follow-up from last week. See you next Wednesday! Right click to d ...

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Be A Design Cast 29.5 : RDQlus Portfolio Tip

Weekly content starts NOW on the Be A Design Cast! These shorter, sleeker, sexier nuggets of podcasts will hit on the off-weeks of our until-now biweekly show. Aside from expanding on previous shows, reading listener mail, or covering topics that we would normally overlook, these .5’ers should be what you need to satiate your BADCasting thirst. Today our main man Steve Gordon drops some more portfolio truth bombs to follow-up from last week. See you next Wednesday! Right click to d ...

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Be A Design Cast 29 : How to Get a Job In Graphic Design

We welcome our good friend Rob back to the show to throw down on a topic that has been making the rounds lately: Getting a Job in Graphic Design. For some reason this topic always makes the rounds in late winter/early spring, as near-graduates race to figure out what they’re going to do when the dorms kick them out and their parents stop buying them food. So we touch on everything including portfolio tips and pet-peeves, presentations, web vs. printed portfolios, cold-calling, resum ...

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Be A Design Cast 29 : How to Get a Job In Graphic Design

We welcome our good friend Rob back to the show to throw down on a topic that has been making the rounds lately: Getting a Job in Graphic Design. For some reason this topic always makes the rounds in late winter/early spring, as near-graduates race to figure out what they’re going to do when the dorms kick them out and their parents stop buying them food. So we touch on everything including portfolio tips and pet-peeves, presentations, web vs. printed portfolios, cold-calling, resum ...

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Be A Design Cast 28 : The Freelance Show

We have long wanted to do a show devoted to the business of freelancing. But with my limited experience (re: five stressful months) and Donovan not really being “freelance,” per se, we were not sure we had the right perspective. So we called in four of our friends from Divvy Collective—Adam Nielsen, Ryan Sorensen, “Secret Penguin” Dave Nelson and John Henry “The Steel Drivin’ Man” Müller—who are all freelancers working from the same shared sp ...

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Be A Design Cast XXVII : Superbowl Spectacular II

The return of Tom Nemitz! Steve Gordon! Donovan! Nate! And the worst superbowl ads we’ve seen in a decade. Seriously, what went wrong there? We spend a bit longer show than usual pondering those issues and more. And we welcome two new friends to the show, New Guy Rob Maguire and New Girl Ashley McFeely. And sound-o-files rejoice! Renaissance-man Steve MF’ing Gordon fixed our echoing issue from last episode. Welcome to awesometown, Steve. Population you. Right click to downloa ...

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Be A Design Cast 26 : Season 2 Premiere!

RETURN OF THE AWESOME. Now in 3-D! Or stereo, at least, and we apologize for the severe, severe, severe echo you are about to experience while we work out a slight bug in our new recording hotness, I mean process. We welcome Superstar Designer Drew Davies® back to the show as we run for our very lives from the zombie Orville Redenbacher, who is hungry for our delicious, air-popped brains. Then we play kick-the-can with 35 different cans of Pepsi before getting Drew to theorize on the vi ...

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Be A Design Cast 25 : Debbie Millman (Season Finale)

Welcome to the Season Finale of the Be A Design Cast! We are head-over-heels to bring you a half-hour conversation with the one-and-only Debbie Millman of Design Matters. If you’re not aware of Design Matters, have been living under a rock, or are not a graphic designer, it is only the premier graphic-design/business talk show and both Donovan and I were terribly humbled to have her in-studio with us. Fly on over to iTunes to download every episode of her show and the first 5 minute ...

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Be A Design Cast 24 : Tricia Bateman

After a long breather we are happy to return to the Be A Design Cast with none other than Tricia Bateman. Tricia should be one of your favorite designers, whether you know it or not. She is the Senior Art Director at HOW Magazine and I’m guessing about everyone listening to this show pours through her work six times a year just like I do. Donovan and I had a terrific opportunity to spend some time with Tricia as she visited our hometown last month for some AIGA business. During the ...

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Be A Design Cast 23 : Kit Hinrichs

I don’t know that we know Kit so well that we can outright call him an “old friend,” but going into our illustrious day of interviews at the Pentagram office in San Francisco we certainly knew him the best. Kit had visited us in Omaha before and gave the show-and-tell to end all show-and-tells. It left a room of over 100 designers collecting their jaws off the ground. My favorite moment was when Kit showed a product catalog deemed to be terrible, and we all looked at thi ...

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Be A Design Cast 22 : Robert Brunner

I have a confession to make. I have scarcely felt more inadequate as a designer than the half-hour we spent with Robert Brunner. A Pentagram Partner, formerly of Lunar Design, and former lead industrial designer for Apple (he hired Jonathan Ive), Robert’s command over the idea of what design is and what is possible through wielding it is commanding to say the least. If Robert Brunner were to judge a design competition, the non-winning entries would simply burst into flames upon his ...

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Be A Design Cast 21 : Lorenzo Apicella

Beginning (hopefully) three back-to-back-to-back weeks of Pentagram interviews is our run-in with Lorenzo Apicella. I was most nervous meeting Lorenzo, as he is one of those curious “architects” who design buildings, not brochures. My nervousness was soon lifted because Lorenzo Apicella is a charming, gracious, brilliant man who put us quite at ease. We discussed the idea of multidisciplinary design, as well as his approach to architecture and many other topics that quite fran ...

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Be A Design Cast 20 : Volume Inc.

The first in an epic series on San Fran-based interviews, Donovan and I make the trek to Volume Inc. It was an unusually warm day and of course nobody has air conditioning in San Francisco, so if you hear anything odd its the beads of sweat dripping off Donovan’s dome. Eric and Adam gave us a great interview where we discuss the merits of big versus small clients, trade shows, designers who teach, and of course we give you your Student Tip and Taboo Typeface. Right click to downloa ...

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Be A Design Cast 19 : Ragnarok

The podcast to end all podcasts. Four authors. One hour. One host? The Be A Design Cast heads west, into the great unknown wilderness, for our enneadecashow. Nate takes Bennett Holzworth, Adrian Hanft, and Paul “the Professor” Berkbigler out into the darkness to hunt the wild beast that is the online world of graphic design. We cover the past, present, and purported future of this strange animal as we attempt to uncover both its secrets and, if possible, its purpose. This sh ...

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Be A Design Cast 18 : Sheraton Green and Jovaney Hollingsworth

I have been trying to get these guys on the show since the beginning. These two fine young gentlemen, Sheraton and Jovaney (not “Giovanni”), were two of my best friends back in design college. We took most of our classes together and played little games of one-ups-manship to see who could either turn in the most kickass project for critique (they usually won), or rip off the other person’s design (that nearly spiraled out of control). These two graduated and headed to wo ...

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Be A Design Cast 17 : In House With Brian Edlefson

Continuing our trek through sunny Minneapolis, we spend some quiet time in the new Central Library with Brian Edlefson, Senior Designer and Art Director for Target. Brian’s is the in-house designer’s hero, able to work for major corporations, under major brands, and produce majorly amazing work. He holds a position on the Minneapolis AIGA chapter’s board of directors as the associate programming director for in-house designers. He’s also worked for Herman Miller, M ...

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Be A Design Cast 16 : Aesthetic Apparatus

Live and super echo-y from Aesthetic Apparatus’ studio in downtown Minneapolis, this is the 16th Be A Design Cast! The BADCast takes a secret vacation to the twin cities and drops in on some old friends. Actually, some dudes we met once before: Mike and Dan from Aesthetic Apparatus! This show is a must listen for any fans of their work or anyone looking to make a living designing (or “creating”) gig posters—hint: they do a lot more than posters. Also on the BADCast th ...

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Be A Design Cast 15 : Gig Posters on the Side(Kick)

So this is what it’s like to have an enhanced podcast? This is good. All new rez’s and byte’s and things. Right click to download Be A Design Cast 15 to your computer (9mb), or subscribe directly from iTunes.

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Be A Design Cast 14 : Design Conferences and More

This week we bring some serious cool to the BADCast with guest Steve Gordon. We spend a little time on Steve’s raison d’etre:logo and identity design, then wander the exciting, re-invigorating and slightly alcoholic halls of graphic design conferences, including HOW to convince your company to pick up the tab. Did everyone get the subtle plug there? Eh? There are no words to describe how cool Steve MF’ing Gordon is; so I will use one I wish I invented: Scrumtrelescent ...

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Be A Design Cast 13 : Getting A Job Is Like Dating

Today on the unlucky 13th BADCast, Donovan coerces me to talk about Apple’s Boot Camp for six or seven minutes before we get to the real news of today’s show: It’s Spring, and student designers everywhere are graduating! We cover how to get a job as a recently minted student designer from the closest parallel experience: Men (student designers—including female student designers) hitting on Women (companies/agencies/design firms). It’s a surprisingly deep analogy. ...

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Be A Design Cast 12 : Bennett Holzworth

Turn up your speakers, BADCasters, because this week Be A Design Group’s own co-founder Bennett Holzworth joins the show! Right click to download Be A Design Cast 12 to your computer (6mb), or subscribe directly from iTunes.

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Be A Design Cast 11 : Quark Makeover, Again

Well, it wouldn’t be a design podcast if we didn’t talk about Quark’s new ways of letting us down… I mean, their new logo. Also, a big thanks to Franz for inspiring Tom on this week’s Taboo Typeface. The man came at it with a vengeance. Now your number one graphic design podcast! At least as far as the search engines go, and really, isn’t that the only way importance is measured anymore? A big thank you to everyone who listens for putting us there; we aim ...

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Be A Design Cast 10 : Typography Island

What would you do if you were stuck on a deserted island with only five typefaces for the rest of your life? Choose one for Serif, Sans Serif, Script, Designed-By-Adrian-Frutiger, and the enigmatic “Misc.” You’ll have to listen in for our picks, but we’re more interested to hear from you! Post your picks in the Comments section and we’ll tally up the top five vote getters for a recap on next week’s show. Thanks to Greg for getting us off the negative ti ...

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Be A Design Cast 9 : Spec Work

Today on the Almost-Tenth Be A Design Cast we welcome fellow Be A Design Group author and AIGA Nebraska President Drew Davies to the show, filling in mightily for Mr. Nemitz. We dive into the treacherous waters of spec work, Olympic design, and design competitions. Also, Drew shatters my faith in House Industries. (But hey, we all did dumb things when we were younger, right?) Right click to download Be A Design Cast 9 to your computer, (7mb) or subscribe directly from iTunes.

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Be A Design Cast VIII : Superbowl Spectacular!

Download Be A Design Cast 8 now. (8mb) We blow the lid off this podcast with over a half hour of Superbowl ad coverage. We hope you saw the ads during the game, because it’s a podcast, and we can’t really show them to you. But we can tell you all about them! Tom takes us on a whirlwind tour of the best and worst ads of the night, Nate speaks in broad sweeping generalizations without backup, Donovan drinks Peach Fresca and, if you hang in there long enough, we even squeeze in ...

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Be A Design Cast 7 : Joe Duffy

Download Be A Design Cast 7 now. (6mb) Coming to you on-location from Des Moines, Iowa! This week we interview none other than AIGA Medalist and good-sport Joe Duffy. We tackle the future of advertising, Duffy’s experiences following his split with Fallon, and much more. Donovan even sneaked in a question about Duffy’s past battle-of-the-minds with Tibor Kalman (get a primer here, courtesy of Design Observer). Also pondered: Has Joe Duffy ever had a Hillary Duff? (answer: no. ...

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Be A Design Cast 6 : Ric Grefé

The Be A Design Cast keeps getting better! (7mb) This week we welcome Ric Grefé, the executive director of AIGA (the professional association for design) to the Design Cast for our very special first interview. Ric talks about the future of AIGA and of our profession, as well as the re-positioning of AIGA in it. Our thanks go out to AIGA Nebraska and president Drew Davies (a Be A Design Group author, in case you were wondering how we swindled this) for allowing us a few moments of Ric ...

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Be A Design Cast 5

Welcome to Be A Design Cast 5. Today we discuss the Intel’s rebranding effort and the merits of the millennium swoosh along with the final installment of the 2005 holiday design review — don’t forget to vote! Also we welcome David Kadavy to the Design Cast all the way from northern California. Download Be A Design Cast 5 now. (6mb)

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Be A Design Cast 4

Welcome to the Be A Design Cast for the week of December 27th, 2000 and 5. On the Design Cast this week, we bid farewell to Macromedia as they are officially taken over by Adobe Systems. Tom takes a dive into the Dew, and the Holiday Design Review continues.Download Be A Design Cast 4 now. (6mb)

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Be A Design Cast 3

Be A Design Cast 3 is now ready to download. (7mb)On today’s podcast, AT&T becomes lowercase and drags design down with it; Part One of the Be A Design Cast Holiday Design Review; and your friends the Blog Recap and Student Tip of the Week.

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Be A Design Cast 2

Be A Design Cast 2On this week’s episode, Marty Neumier’sThe Dictionary of Brand,and Coudal Partner’sCopy Goes Hereare reviewed, as is Tom’s junk mail.

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Announcing the Be A Design Cast

Click here to download the first-ever Be A Design Cast!or you cansubscribe to it from iTunes

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