I have created a short list of products that get free advertising without the consumer even realizing they don’t have to put up with the logo/ad placement.

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by Paul Berkbigler

Bennett and Adrian have lit a bit of an Internet campfire and rustled the hedges in the forest around it to call several of us wayward BA authors and writers back to share in the warmth and swap a few more fireside stories together. So, as I trudge out of the many tangled branches of teaching, research, writing, grading and continuing to work as a freelance designer, it’s great to at least briefly brush the leaves and twigs off my jacket and rejoin good friends in conversation.

When last I left BA Design Group and its group of campers, the podcast was continuing its rapid rise to the most regularly scheduled programming on the site, I was in the midst of leading a workshop in Tennessee, and I think we were all still fielding comments in the Gig Poster thread – the hits just keep on coming, right?!

It’s incredible to see how quickly a year passes and to try making some sense of the individual images that make up the blur once you’re standing at the other end of that time span. It kinda makes my brain hurt to realize that my workshop post was almost exactly a year ago this week!

…Time to move on in the writing then, I suppose!

In aiming to make some sense out of the big, crazy, wonderful thing that has been BA Design Group and the many twists and turns that it’s taken along the way, my brain heads towards a phrase that Stefan Bucher used about a week-and-a-half ago while he was visiting the college I teach at:

Launch and learn…

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This is just a link i came across this morning via QBN.
Interesting insights on issues like motivation and aspiration from some brit designers.
It’s always somewhat therapeutic to hear designers discuss issues like these, at least for me.
Hope you enjoy.

http://www.knowyourvalues.com/

If you ask me, these are far better than listening to those annoying Be A Design Cast hosts Nate and Donovan.

Announcing 36 Point.com!

oh Hai. We’R leavin ur websitz.

What seems like forever ago, Bennett Holzworth moved. He moved to Hastings Nebraska, and if you know where that is, you have my sympathy. Not to be cut off from his close friends back home, he started this blog — this one right here — with his friend Adrian. Some months later, they made the mistake of saying “Hey Nate! How about you write on this blog with us?” To which I replied “Okay.”

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…or how Nicole and I succeeded at designing a poster for Chip Kidd because of Nate’s failure.

Just over a year ago, Adrian went to see Chip Kidd speak in Denver, and his reviews were great. Within hours I had emailed the programming chair on the AIGA Colorado board and contacted Chip Kidd off of Adrian’s word to see if he would be interested in speaking in Omaha.

Turns out, Chip not only said yes, but did so with the understanding that we’d wait a while, as he had a new book coming out (a new novel actually, I hear he has a new book cover come out more often then I make it into bookstores).

And that leads us to this Friday (2/29/08), when AIGA Nebraska is bringing Chip Kidd to Bellevue.

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