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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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[ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0700 ]

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 computer ...

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[ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:03:33 -0700 ]

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 I...

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[ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:25:55 -0700 ]

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, let me...

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[ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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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[ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 ]

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 the li...

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[ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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 a li...

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[ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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-corporation...

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[ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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 at C...

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[ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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 Designologue...

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[ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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 room to ...

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[ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:28:01 -0700 ]

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 are ...

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[ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:01 -0700 ]

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 did t...

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[ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:48:40 -0700 ]

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 bad w...

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[ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:02:50 -0700 ]

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 to Na...

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[ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:18:25 -0700 ]

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 information on...

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[ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:01:01 -0700 ]

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 and be...

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[ Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:28:31 -0700 ]

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 subscribe directly...

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[ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:24:09 -0700 ]

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 will take ...

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[ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:46:23 -0700 ]

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 (preferably s...

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[ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0700 ]

Be A Design Cast 36 : London (2012) Calling

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[ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0700 ]

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 today&#...

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[ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:01:01 -0700 ]

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�nay!...

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[ Wed, 30 May 2007 01:00:00 -0700 ]

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 from iTun...

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[ Fri, 18 May 2007 05:49:22 -0700 ]

Be A Design Cast 34 : Delta Bonocracy

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[ Fri, 18 May 2007 05:49:22 -0700 ]

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 Cast 33.5 to yo...

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[ Thu, 10 May 2007 10:42:00 -0700 ]

Be A Design Cast 33.5 : Steve's First Times

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[ Thu, 10 May 2007 10:42:00 -0700 ]

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 off righ...

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[ Wed, 02 May 2007 23:30:00 -0700 ]

Be A Design Cast 33 : First Times

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[ Wed, 02 May 2007 23:30:00 -0700 ]

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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[ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:06:21 -0700 ]

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