THREE big pieces of news!

#1: Season 5 is coming on Thursday, September 5! Now is a great time to get subscribed and ready—we've got a killer roster already lined up and you won't want to miss it!

#2: If you weren't able to get out to our Seattle live show as part of Seattle Design Festival, not to worry! SDF has published a video of the whole show to their YouTube channel that you can watch, either on its own or paired with the other SDF Day 1 Mainstage presentations. It was so wonderful to get to connect with Seattle's design community and to share a stage with the great Terry Marks! Big thanks to the entire team at SDF for making the show happen!

#3: There is still more summer news yet to be revealed, and as soon as I can do it, I plan to publish the announcement to the folks who read our newsletter first, so if you're not already signed up, what are you waiting for? Christmas? That's a long time away and you will know what the announcement is well in advance of December 25, unless you are very, very inattentive. Don't wait—subscribe to the newsletter and let it be your Christmas miracle!

This week in the feed as our final rerun of summer: those tossed salads and scrambled eggs must have been calling again back at the midpoint of season 2, because Did I Do That? was in Seattle for the AIGA Design Conference 2022! Lee-Sean Huang (Creative Director of Foossa and Director of Design Content & Learning at AIGA) joins Sean to talk dialup conspiracies, leveraging the combined might of the Center for Academic Precocity and the Cronkite School of Journalism to make a reality show, and what business people think about.

You can find more about Lee-Sean at his website, leesean.net, or follow him nearly anywhere social by searching for the handle @leesean. You can learn more about Foossa’s work in service design, futurecasting, and more at foossa.com. You can find the Lee-Sean's podcasting work with the AIGA on their site, or by searching for "AIGA Design Podcast" wherever you prefer your pod-based experiences are found; AIGA recently has been expanding their podcast and exploring the theme of "Margins" and it's been really great to listen to—go check it out!

This episode was recorded at the 2022 AIGA Design Conference in Seattle, Washington on Saturday, October 22, 2022 and originally published on Thursday, November 17, 2022 as part of season 2.

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Summertime fun-time rerun-time continues, but before it does, some big news: I'm doing a live Did I Do That? in Seattle for Seattle Design Festival on Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 4:15pm in Lake Union Park! I'll be joined on stage by the incredible Terry Marks!

I hope you can make it out to the live show—it's going to be really special to bring this silly podcast to the SDF mainstage and bring it to friends new and old out in Seattle!

This week in the feed, though: To close out 2022, we called in The Fixer! “Logotype surgeon” and type designer Dan Rhatigan (Director of Type Products at Type Network) sits down with Sean to talk about failing successfully, gifts from fast food heaven, and not quite getting to act with Gwyneth Paltrow in a high school musical.

You can find Dan’s work all over the internet—his blog is at ultrasparky.org, and he can be found @ultrasparky on Twitter and @bijoutype on Instagram. Speaking of the latter, his foundry Bijou Type (bijoutype.com) should be up an d running soon with an update of Dan’s beautiful graduate school typeface project you can add to your own type collection. His fantastic Pink Mince zine series can be found and purchased at pinkmince.com and @pinkmince on Twitter.

This episode was recorded Tuesday, December 20, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and originally published right at the start of 2023. Were we ever so young?

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Throw away your phones and pick up your oil paints! Rachel Frankel (Senior Brand Designer at Zendesk) joins Sean to talk portfolio lust, Apple allergies, and the weirdest social network’s weirdest pivot yet (and it’s only partially to video).

You can find Rachel’s work all over the ‘net (and IRL):

• You can find Rachel’s portfolio, and more of her work, on her website: rachelevefrankel.com!
• Transmute and all of Phosphene’s other albums—as well as Rachel’s awesome album design for them—are available to enjoy at their Bandcamp page, phosphenepdx.bandcamp.com. Buying albums there gives the band way more money than streaming fees, but you can also find Phosphene on Spotify, Apple Music, and the like as well.
• You can find Rachel’s book, She Can Really Lay It Down: 50 Rebels, Rockers, and Music Revolutionaries (Who Happen To Be Women) (published by Chronicle Books in 2019) on Indiebound/Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, or wherever else you should happen to shop for books.

This episode was recorded Sunday, March 31, 2024 in the Rat’s Nest.

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OMFGCO Creative Director and author/designer of Rural Kimberly Sutherland joins Sean to talk the horrifying truth about figs, the top ten signs you’re in romcom, and the crowning of Portland’s #1 (vegan) ice cream boi. Why not grab a Gatorade and join the fuuuuuuuuuuuuun!

You can find Kimberly’s work all over the ‘net (and IRL):

• You can find more of Kim’s work—both design and art related—on her website, kimberly-sutherland.com!
• The OMFGCO Journal, which Kim co-writes with Fritz Mesenbrink, is the best place to go to learn the latest from the studio, and is where you can go first to hear about when the And Then What?! podcast drops. Along with their Journal articles, you can also find audio versions which might be considered soft pilots for the show all on their own! Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for it and their upcoming merch!
• If you’re planning on attending Creative Works West 2024 in Seattle at the end of April, Kim will be hosting a workshop on Brand Concepts & Frameworks alongside OMFGCO’s Fritz on Saturday, April 27 at 9am! If you’re interested, hop on over to the Creative Works site to learn more or their Eventbrite to register! As of this writing, tickets are still available!

Addendum: Since I’ve come to record this episode, I’ve learned that there are in fact some varieties of figs that do not require wasps to pollinate them. Still, the truth that most figs pretty much consume wasps in order to become figs is undeniably A PROBLEM that we must reckon with as a species if we are going to continue to live on this planet.

This episode was recorded Friday, March 15, 2023 in the Rat’s Nest.

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Get those offer codes ready! Creative Director Matt Graff joins Sean to talk Pee-Chee folder portfolios, unusual interview questions, and the six quadrants of action sports marketing.

You can find Matt’s work on his website, mattgraff.com. He’s currently looking for his next Creative Direction role, so if your studio is looking for someone, reach out! Matt can also be found on LinkedIn at inkedin.com/in/mattgraff.

This episode was recorded Saturday, March 2, 2024 in the Rat’s Nest.

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Lena Hall of Fontroversy is on Did I Do That?! Or Sean Schumacher is on Fontroversy!? We’re all mixed up because it’s a Did I Do That?-Fontroversy acoustic universe crossover spectacular to kick off one of those shows’ fourth season!

The two hosts sit down to talk about the process behind getting Fontroversy off the ground, as well as Lena’s Fallout Boy audition outfit, the meltiest car, and the Wizarding World of Woody Harrelson.

You can find more about Lena ’s work on their Instagram, @ps.its.lena. They are indeed graduating soon and you should absolutely hire them! You can view Lena's font horoscopes for the both of us here!

This episode was recorded Saturday, February 3, 2024 in the Rat’s Nest.

Special thanks to the entire team that made Fontroversy possible: Lea Thompson, Lena Hall, Malia Masterson, Whitney McPhie, Ashley Heeke, Sophia Stoker, Anna Stanton, Hannah Joseph, Sophia Mick, Mette Voldengen, Milos Dugas, Freya Kargard, Robert Ditty, Izzy Gavaza, Dana Ives, Kaitlyn Casey, Aline Chercover, and Orion Cortez.

Closing Music/The Fontroversy Theme: “How Can Things Be” by Holizna

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To close out our season break, I wanted to share one last feed drop! The creators of Two Designers Walk Into A Bar reached out a few weeks back to connect as fellow creators of media about design that doesn't take design too seriously. They make a really fun show, and this episode comes from the end of their third season covering a subject my students have heard me talk about many times: one of the most financially catastrophic packaging redesigns in history. It's a really wonderful show—give it a listen and then give them a follow! You can find them on whatever podcasting platform you like, as well as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn!

Pepsi announced it’s moving forward by moving backwards (sort of), returning to more of a traditional look for their logo and cans. (Think black. It's a slimming color.) But as they kick their last logo to the curb, we go back in time to discuss how they became saddled with this burdensome brand look in the first place. We talk ovals, smiles, globes, magnetic fields and cosmic forces of the universe in this special breathtaking and scientifically-tangential episode.

Images, articles and links mentioned in this episode can be found on their episode page: https://www.twodesignerswalkintoabar.com/episodes/episode-50-pepsi-logo-story

This episode was originally published June 7, 2023.

Two Designers Walk Into a Bar is a podcast about iconic design and popular culture.

Hosted by graphic designers and collectors Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk, the podcast is constantly looking at pop culture and thinking about how it influences us and what we do for a living. Starting with a theme, we choose iconic work that we find meaningful and use humor and insight to break it down, turn it inside out and try to understand why it has stood the test of time.

Two Designers Walk Into a Bar encourages listeners to dive into their libraries, mini storage units or memories with us.

Discover more at their website: https://www.twodesignerswalkintoabar.com

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Need to thaw yourself out from this winter freeze? Why not let a reheated episode of Fontroversy—our last of the season break—from last summer warm you back up!

When Lena and Sean start fuming about the most famous (and infamous) font there is, guest expert Freya Kargard steps in to modernize their thinking about Helvetica. This might well mark our limited series' finale, but stay tuned as we might have one or two surprises in store as well!

Segment Producer: Freya Kargard

Researcher: Robert Ditty

Story Editor: Izzy Gavaza

Sound Editing and Mix/Mastering: Orion Cortez

This episode was recorded Tuesday, May 30, 2023 and originally published on Thursday, August 31, 2023.

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Fontroversy was created by the students of DES 399 Public Design Communication in the Spring of 2019 as part of Portland State University’s Graphic Design program in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about PSUGD at psu.gd. You can learn more about the PSU School of Art+Design at pdx.edu/art-design.

Host: Lena Hall

Show Art: Robert Ditty

Social Media Coordinator: Ashley Heeke

Producer: Sean Schumacher

Editorial Assistance by: Orion Cortez

Music: “How Can Things Be” by Holizna

For more about Fontroversy, visit fontroversy.com or follow @fontroversy.psugd on Instagram.

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When frustration around the meme-iest of meme fonts starts to go viral around the studio, guest expert Sophia Mick bursts in to help set Lena and Sean straight on Impact’s… impact.

Segment Producer: Sophia Mick

Researcher: Mette Voldengen

Story Editor: Milos Dugas

"Candy Paper Wrap Crinkling" Sound Effect by Emile99, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

This episode was recorded Tuesday, June 6, 2023 and originally published on Thursday, August 17, 2023.

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Fontroversy was created by the students of DES 399 Public Design Communication in the Spring of 2019 as part of Portland State University’s Graphic Design program in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about PSUGD at psu.gd. You can learn more about the PSU School of Art+Design at pdx.edu/art-design.

Host: Lena Hall

Show Art: Robert Ditty

Social Media Coordinator: Ashley Heeke

Producer: Sean Schumacher

Editorial Assistance by: Orion Cortez

Music: “How Can Things Be” by Holizna

For more about Fontroversy, visit fontroversy.com or follow @fontroversy.psugd on Instagram.

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Graphic design may be our passion, but everybody needs a break too! While Did I Do That? is off for a few weeks between seasons, enjoy a few episodes of our sister podcast Fontroversy, produced by one of Sean's classes in Spring 2023. If you missed episode 1, no worries—unlike the glut of superhero cinematic universe movies out there, there's nothing there you need to know to enjoy to this one! If you want to revisit it, though, you can find it here!

When a typeface ripped from the funny pages starts to get contentious, surprise guest expert Whitney McPhie (currently serving as Interim Creative Director at Willamette Week) intervenes to school Lena and Sean on what Comic Sans can really do.

IMPORTANT EDITORIAL CORRECTION: Gentle Giants Dog Food does NOT, in fact, use Comic Sans on its packaging—it instead uses a DaFont-style Disney-inspired sans paired with, of all things, Bank Gothic Sean apologies for this truly shameful oversight, although in their defense, attempting to look at any one specific type block on the package without being immediately distracted is basically impossible.

Segment Producer: Whitney McPhie

Researchers: Ashley Heeke, Sophia Stoker

Story Editors: Anna Stanton, Hannah Joseph

Sound Editing & Mix: Orion Cortez

This episode was recorded Tuesday, May 30, 2023, and originally published Thursday, August 3, 2023.

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Fontroversy was created by the students of DES 399 Public Design Communication in the Spring of 2019 as part of Portland State University’s Graphic Design program in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about PSUGD at psu.gd. You can learn more about the PSU School of Art+Design at pdx.edu/art-design.

Host: Lena Hall

Show Logo: Robert Ditty

Social Media Coordinator: Ashley Heeke

Producer: Sean Schumacher

Editorial Assistance by: Orion Cortez

Music: “How Can Things Be” by Holizna

For more about Fontroversy, visit fontroversy.com or follow @fontroversy.psugd on Instagram.

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As both Season 3 and 2023 draw to a close, the time to seek forgiveness is at hand! Earlier this year, Did I Do That? set up a confessional booth—with Sean playing the role as part priest, part Frasier Crane—to collect true stories of design disasters, missteps, failures, and more from anonymous guests who sought to clear their guilty consciences.

How can you find peace when faced with cross crossworders, ghost(ed) cookbooks, and duck pornography? There’s only one way to find out!

(To be clear: the way is listening; you must listen to find out.)

WANT A DESIGN CONFESSIONAL AT YOUR EVENT?

If you have a live event and want me to set up another design confessional for it, either in Portland or beyond, let’s talk! I’d love to do more events like this in the future.

SPECIAL THANKS

The clips used in this episode were collected as part of “Future Fonts and Friends,” a party held for TypeCon 2023 at Outlet in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, August 17, 2023. All guests were indeed anonymous, and so if you hear any familiar voices, I guess just ignore that? Come to think of it, what do real priests do about that problem?!

Huge thanks to past guest Lizy Gershenzhon and Travis Kochel of Future Fonts for inviting me to be a part of the event, to the organizers of TypeCon for putting up with me, and to my 2023 MVP Orion Cortez for building the confessional booths based solely on two terrible sketches I made.

Additional thanks to past guest Kate Bingaman-Burt of Outlet for her eternal support of / patience with me just in general, but especially the white-hot ball of stress that is me when faced with a live event. Thanks, too, to the kind folks at Jolby—who didn’t even have anything to do with the party and had no reason to help me!—for letting me steal power from them for a couple of hours just because I happened to set up next to their studio.

YOU’VE MADE IT THIS FAR…

I want to all of you listeners out there for keeping this show going and growing. This marks the end of both our third season and second year, and I don’t think I ever would have imagined there would be as many folks out there following it as there are around the world. If you’ve enjoyed the first two years of this show, please tell a friend! I want to keep this project growing, and the community around it growing as well.

• If you have some nice things to say about what this project means to you, please send me an email! If you have mean things to say about me, please relay them to your dentist while they have their hands in your mouth—they’ll understand and relay them directly back to me, I’m sure.
• I don’t ordinarily plug the tip jar, but if you have some change between your couch cushions you want to throw my way, I would really appreciate it.

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Creative Director and Design TikToker Zachary Winterton joins Sean to talk about the people in your (Geocities) neighborhood, bad leadership advice from cheerleaders, and Charlie the Cactus: the supermarket mascot of our dreams?

Zachary is probably best found these days on TikTok (tiktok.com/@zacharywinterton), Instagram (instagram.com/zacharywinterton), and YouTube (youtube.com/@ZacharyWinterton) where you can find his latest short form design-centric videos. You can sign up for The Creative Brief, Zachary’s weekly newsletter, on his website at zacharywinterton.com/newsletter. That same website, zacharywinterton.com, is where you can see some of his past work.

This episode was recorded Sunday, November 12, 2023.

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Rerun summer continues with another past guest from way back in 2022—lettering designer extraordinaire and Portland flower fan Kyle Letendre joins Sean to talk Minnesota’s missing lakes, misguided entrepreneurial spirit, and rebrands that aren’t quite making the grade. We’re filling in the pixels in that JPEG manually in person while we get to the bottom of a question that’s been on everyone’s mind: what’s Sean’s favorite food color?

Kyle most recently did artwork for TypeCon 2024's identity, which you can see on the TypeCon website.

Not-so-coincidentally enough, the day this episode is re-released (Thursday, July 25, 2024) Fontroversy's Lena Hall and I will be appearing at TypeCon's Education Forum to present about the type education side of how Fontroversy came to be—it's going to be a real kick, and if you're going to be attending TypeCon, check out the EdForum schedule page on TypeCon's website for scheduling information. Stay tuned to the newsletter, too, Fontroversy friends, for more news on the show coming later this summer!

Also the night this episode comes out, I'll be at Future Fonts & Friends holding our second ever Making Mistakes Confessional! That event is free, open to the public, packed with friends of the show, and is your chance to share any design foibles that have been haunting you with our design therapist-in-residence. Future Fonts & Friends is happening at Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Blvd. in Portland) from 6–9pm. Hope to hear you there!

Stay tuned for more event news, including more information about our Seattle show, in the newsletter!

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Emily Tate (Senior Digital Art Director for Studio A at Adidas) joins Sean to talk about America’s most frightening college mascot, disinterested dogs, and William Shatner's Pandora surprise.

You can find Emily’s work on her portfolio work, emilytatedesign.com. You can see more of her design work and giver her a follow on Instagram at instagram.com/emilytatedesign.  In addition to Adidas.com, you can also still see Emily’s work on the Burgerville small dip packages—go get some with your next burger!

This episode was recorded on Saturday, November 11, 2023. As I mention towards the end of this episode, this is our first recording in a new studio space, which does have some electrical interference, echo, and outside sound bleed issues long since solved in our other space. I’ve done my best to mitigate all of these in post-production, but apologies if you do pick up on any buzz, reverb, or street noise!

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Freelance designer, paper crafter extraordinaire, and former student Celestia Caredio joins Sean for a very special not-quite-Halloween-anymore episode to talk about The Haunting of Full House, bookbinding in a hostel, and jewel cases. Plus, is a tech startup possibly planning on sending Sean to the great beyond? There’s only one way to find out—to listen in! (well, okay, or you could just wait and see if it happens, but listening would be better for my stats)

• You can find Celestia’s current site at celestiagrace.com, or very occasionally on social media at @celestiagrace on Instagram! If you’re looking for an excellent freelance senior designer who can throw a killer Halloween party, you can also connect with her on LinkedIn too at linkedin.com/in/celestia-caredio-06457439
• Celestia did indeed turn her early mix CD design project “My Room” into a Spotify playlist, and was gracious enough to share it here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5G4vfVoBHx8m7PD051eVmq! It’s chock full of lesser known tracks from some of the coolest bands of the mid-to-late aughts, so give it a listen! Fair warning, though: as Celestia puts it, there is a lot of angst in this album.

This episode was recorded Saturday, October 21, 2023 in downtown Portland, Oregon, and marks the last episode in our dank and dark PSU Art Building studio! May it get to live out its final days in peace, being filled with random junk for events that we’ll forget we have until after the event we might need it for is over.

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Ashod Simonian (co-owner of Imaginary Authors perfume and co-author of both the “Portland Book of Dates” and the brand new “Seattle Book of Dates”) joins Sean to talk roadside attractions, band photo cliches, and the classic dilemma of adulthood: do I get a job at the IRS or work on Scooby Doo?

• You can find more about Ashod on Instagram @ashod, or on his website, ashodsimonian.com!
• The Portland Book of Dates is out just about everywhere you can find beautiful books, and has just recently been joined by The Seattle Book of Dates! Both are gorgeous—filled with tons of Ashod’s beautiful RISO-esque illustrations. You can order The Portland Book of Dates at Powell’s, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and many other fine retailers! The Seattle Book of Dates will drop November 14th, but you can pre-orderit at Powell’s, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and many others near you as well!
• You can find more about Imaginary Authors, the beautifully packaged non-gendered perfume line Ashod co-owns and designs for, at imaginaryauthors.com. Ashod was kind enough to share a few samples with me and I can confirm that they smell fantastic and look really good on a shelf to boot!

This episode was recorded on Friday, September 22, 2023 in downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Brandon Hrycyk (illustrator and host of XRAY FM’s “A Century of Slang”) joins Sean to talk about Beautiful Bean Bucket Hats, regionalisms, and the dangers of volunteering for an art project. It’s bizarre and beautiful and so much fun!

You can hear “A Century of Slang” every Saturday night from 5-6 pm PST on XRAY FM. If you’re wanting that warm terrestrial radio experience, why not tune your FM dial to 107.1 or 91.1 in Portland, or 91.7 in Nehalem. If you’re outside of the Portland metro area or just want to listen in whenever your want, go to www.xray.fm and you can hear the whole back catalog. It’s a great, fun show—go listen and support local media!

You can see Brandon’s own work out there at brandononline.co, or on Instagram at @bhrycyk. That’s also where you can find all the promo art for “A Century of Slang” too—give it a follow!

This episode was recorded on Monday, August 28, 2023.

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Don your school colors, ‘cause we’re going back to school with this week’s Did I Do That? The amazing Kristin Rogers Brown (Associate Professor, Chair of Graphic Design, and Director of the Center for Design at PNCA) joins Sean to talk nightmarish mascots, the corporate handshake aesthetic, and pencils that say stuff.

• You can find Kristin’s work—including some of the work at Bitch Magazine and Bear Deluxe— online at krbee.com, or on Instagram @krbee!
• Kristin organizes and co-leads PNCA’s incredible Design Lecture Series with Bijan Berahimi of FISK. They’re about to kick off a whole new term of talks that are free and open to the public! Even if you can’t get out to NW Portland, many are streamed live and archived on the PNCA YouTube channel or linked from the series’ page on PNCA’s site! Go check them out!

This episode was recorded Monday, August 14, 2023.

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Good news, everyone! We just hit 25,000 listens—which is even more impressive considering that it's been less than a year since we hit 5,000! To celebrate (and not at all to cover a production gap caused by my having to move), I'm sharing the first episode of the limited series spin-off I made with my DES 399 class last term, Fontroversy! It's a really hilarious way to get anyone at all excited about fonts with a great mix of silly stuff and true history, and should be perfect for anyone who likes what we do here.

Too, I'd love some feedback on what you might want out of a Did I Do That? Patreon could look like! If you have ideas or would just want to show your support, drop me a line at ss3@pdx.edu!

If you want to show your support for DIDT, tell a friend about the show, either in meatspace or on MySpace, or consider a one-time "Buy Me A Coffee" tip—It'd mean a lot!

Fontroversy #1: "Wingdings: Cheugy Emoji?"

When Wingdings becomes a sore subject around the studio, Lena and Sean turn to guest expert Lea Thompson to help settle once and for all what good those dingbats are for.

Researcher: Lena Hall

Story Editor: Malia Masterson

Segment Producer: Lea Thompson

This episode was recorded Tuesday, May 23, 2023 and originally published July 20, 2023.

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Fontroversy was created by the students of DES 399 Public Design Communication in the Spring of 2019 as part of Portland State University’s Graphic Design program in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about PSUGD at psu.gd. You can learn more about the PSU School of Art+Design at pdx.edu/art-design.

Host: Lena Hall

Show Art: Robert Ditty

Social Media: Ashley Heeke

Producer: Sean Schumacher

Editorial Assistance by: Orion Cortez

Music: “How Can Things Be” by Holizna

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For more about Fontroversy, visit fontroversy.com or follow @fontroversy.psugd on Instagram.

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Let’s Picasso it up! Dani Loureiro (Letterer, Illustrator, and Senior Art Director at Murmur) joins Sean to talk about navigating the world with a portfolio case, what Garfield can’t do, and Marmite monsters.

You can find Dani’s work online on her website, daniloureiro.com, or on Instagram at @dani_loureiro. Her lettering work is absolutely gorgeous—go give her a follow!

This episode was recorded Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at the Portland State University Art Building.

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Check out the show's website for images from this and every other episode: https://dididothat.design!

Instagram: @dididothat.design

YouTube: @dididothat.design

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/dididothat

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Don’t be scared—embrace a new episode! Joe Carolino (Chief Creative Officer at Thesis) joins Sean to talk website frenemies, screamo aesthetics, and what the scientists are right about. It’s a beautiful mess!

You can find Joe online at joecarolino.com, or on Instagram @joeambrocio. Joe’s portfolio is also where you can go to check out the Flybox card series we talked about during the episode—go get some grunge-cubist sport card goodness!

This episode was recorded Monday, July 24, 2023.

Check out our website: dididothat.design

Instagram: @dididothat.design

YouTube: @dididothat.design

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/80225251

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See the sparks fly as digital designer and artist Olivia Johnson (Associate Design Director at Instrument) joins Sean to talk challenging Barbies, Neopets Black Friday, and what Elvis has been up to. Meanwhile, Sean and Nathan Fielder temporarily switch bodies, resulting in a layer of such dripping sarcasm that you won’t be able to tell what isn’t coated in it. Get some sleep folks, or you too might turn into Nathan Fielder (and who has time to graduate from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades?).

• You can find Olivia’s work on the web at oj.co, or on Instagram @o_j.co. Olivia recently separated her handcrafted data viz work onto its own Instagram @handcharted.
• If you want to learn how to make your own terxtile-based data visualizations, Olivia’s self-paced online course “Data Visualization with Alternative Mediums” is available for $40 (or, for the next few hours, the highly discounted price of $7.99!). Too, if textile work is new to you, the course also includes an introduction to cross-stitch! Give it a download!

This episode was recorded Friday, July 21, 2023.

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Check out our website: dididothat.design

Instagram: @dididothat.design

YouTube: @dididothat.design

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Our fun, weird guest Andy McMillan of XOXO, Suckerpunch, and Heck Beer joins Sean for several different kinds of incredible niche podcasts all wrapped into one episode to talk about what’s next in tech, the parts of a balanced breakfast, and the terrible things you might find lurking in the forest. It’s the episode where unbridled enthusiasm meets lowered expectations!

• Andy can be found these days at andymcmillan.com, or turning LinkedIn into the weird, wild place it was never meant to be at linkedin.com/in/goodonpaper. Give LinkedIn a chance, won’t you?
• You can find more about Heck, Andy’s new non-alcoholic craft beer, at heck.beer. Sign up for their newsletter there to be notified when tasting pop-ups pop up!

Also, for real, if you send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, I will indeed send you back a self-addressed stamped envelope—I promise you no merch, signed glossy headshots, or anything else—just pure snail-mailed… delight? Is that the word? Get out your pens and make out your envelopes to: Portland State University School of Art+Design, c/o Sean Schumacher, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland OR 97201.

This episode was recorded Sunday, July 9, 2023.

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Rerun summer continues! In this timely episode from way back in 2022, Future Fonts co-founder and all around rad person Lizy Gershenzon joined Sean to talk pieces of flair, the opposite of missed connections, and The Rainbow Passage. We’re going back to high school and making font magic in an episode that’s got milk—just not in an officially licensed form.

Since this episode came out way back in early 2022, Lizy and Travis have launched the Vectro Type Foundry, home of favorites like the acclaimed Chartwell, Kicker, and Whoa, but also home to new fantastic faces like the incredible Kablammo—check them out and give them a download! Lizy and Travis, along with fellow co-founder James Edmundson of Ohno Type Co., co-founded Future Fonts, where you can get experimental typefaces while they're still in development and help support their creators through the process! It's one of the best places to find new and emerging type, and a great place to start for someone who's new to type and wanting to find out how fun it can be first hand. Check them out at futurefonts.xyz, or at the Future Fonts and Friends event!

• Did I Do That? will be live in Seattle as part of the Seattle Design Festival's mainstage! The show is happening Saturday, August 17, 2024 from 4:15–5:15pm at Lake Union Park in Seattle. The show is free and open to the public, and I'd love to have you there in person, though it will also be streamed after the fact by Seattle Design Festival itself! To learn more, check out their site: seadesignfest.org!
• Fontroversy host Lena Hall and I will be presenting a talk as part of TypeCon on Thursday, July 25 about Fontroversy and teaching type through popular emerging media—it'll be fun, but unfortunately it's only open to TypeCon attendees. You can learn more and get tickets for TypeCon's Education Forum over at the TypeCon's website! (shout out to past guest Kyle Letendre, who made the TypeCon hero art this year!)
• If you missed it last year, Future Fonts and Friends' TypeCon party is back, and just like before is free and open to all! I'll be back with the Making Mistakes Confessional again, so if you missed it before, now's your chance to be a part of it! This year's party will be on Thursday, July 25 from 6–9pm at Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Blvd. in Portland). Bring your best design confessions and hope to see you there!

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Wanna know the stories behind all the fonts we love to hate? Introducing Fontroversy, a limited-run series about typefaces that just aren't quite our type, hosted by Lena Hall. Listen every other Thursday starting July 20!

Fontroversy is produced by Sean Schumacher (Did I Do That? podcast) and created by the students of the Spring 2023 Public Design Communication course from PSUGD, part of the Portland State University School of Art Design.

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Freelance designer, grad student, and fellow Portland Institute for Contemporary Art design alum Mallary Wilson joins Sean to talk inadvertently inappropriate imagery, erasers shaped like food items, and hoarding AOL hours. It’s an episode that’s unforgivably uncool, but we can dig it!

• You can find Mallary on the web at mallarydesigns.com or @mallarydesigns on Instagram—if you work at an agency and are looking for somebody killer to bring onto your team, reach out!
• If you’re wondering what the heck we’re talking about with regards to PICA and TBA and all, that, check out PICA.org—those around Portland may know them for their annual Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. It is a weird, good time, and brings parts of the artistic globe to Portland you might never see otherwise.

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All around stellar individual Eason Yang (founder and design director of NED: Not Entirely Dead) makes the trek down from Seattle on St. Patrick’s Day 2023 to talk with Sean about looking for Lebron (in all the wrong places), working for dinosaurs, and resume hacking.

• You can find Eason on his website, eason.design, or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/yangeason.
• Whether you’re a cancer survivor, have a resume gap, or just want to learn more, you can find out about NED and join the community at notentirelydead.org or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/we-are-ned. If you have a gap in your resume, use NED as your employer on LinkedIn to give you context for it, and tell a friend if they’re in the same boat too!
• NED has had a big year! NED won 365: AIGA’s Year in Design Award in the category of Social Design, and since this recording, was named one of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Idea honorees!

This episode was recorded Friday, March 17, 2023.

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Let’s all have a good time! Did I Do That? is back for season 3! Elliott Snyder of Old Friend joins Sean to talk unique approaches to #vanlife, Portland’s always pleasant winter weather, and what ChatGPT thinks wine bars are for. You’ll find your spot, it’s all we’ve got!

• You can find Elliott and Jesse’s often hospitality-oriented branding studio Old Friend at their website, oldfriend.co, or on Instagram @oldfriend!
• Speaking of hospitality, Elliott and Jesse’s wine bar Company is going strong! If you’re in Portland, you can pop by at 916 SE 34th Avenue (just off Belmont across from Stumptown), or check them out on the web at companypdx.com or on Instagram @companypdx. They even have a unique wine club subscription service to help you look like a wine expert to your friends (just don’t go too deep on it or you may have to move to Seattle, where you’ll host a bizarrely successful and high paying call-in psychiatry show on local terrestrial radio—worse still, you will unfortunately have to also live with your dad and his ABSOLUTELY VILE old chair, which totally ruins the aesthetics of your vaguely post-modern mission-style high rise apartment. Who can enjoy their ‘92 Pouilly-Fuissé with that eyesore in the room! And don’t even get me started about how your nearly-identical brother will be constantly flirting with your dad’s live-in nurse! Talk about a bunch of scrambled eggs all over your face! So, basically, be careful learning about wine).
• You can find Elliott’s own Instagram, including the aforementioned farm content, @elliottsnyder.

This episode was recorded Saturday, February 18, 2023. That was a long time ago, but it does also feel like February lasted until about 2 weeks ago.

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• You can find Nic’s consulting business Nicholas is Content at nicholasiscontent.com on the web or on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts!
• Meme Brah is back with new videos! You can follow it on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube Shorts!
• Nic closed out both our first and second season, and you can find the second season episode "Arnold's Chunky Stuff" on dididothat.design!

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Spring break nears its end (just in time for spring in Portland to actually begin), but not without a feed drop from our friends at AIGA! This special episode of the AIGA Design Podcasts feed features past guest and Director of Design Content & Learning at AIGA Lee-Sean Huang in conversation with the incredible Anne H. Berry, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters about their book The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection as part of the the 2022 AIGA Design Conference in Seattle.

The Black Experience in Design is an anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Through the voices represented, this text exemplifies the inherently collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of design, providing access to ideas and topics for a variety of audiences, meeting people as they are and wherever they are in their knowledge about design. This panel, featuring some of the book's editors, reflects on the process of publishing the book, and highlights some of the themes contained within the perspectives and stories within.

The panel is fantastic, and I'd highly recommend picking up a copy of the book from the Black Experience in Design website, directly from Skyhorse Publishing, or wherever you find books!

Special thanks to AIGA and Lee-Sean Huang for this feed drop—go check out and subscribe to the AIGA Design Podcasts feed, and go check out some what'll be happening as part of the 2023 AIGA Design Conference to be held in NEW YORK CITY?!

If you're listening to this on the day it comes out and you're in the Portland metro area, please come pay my students a visit at Be Honest, our humongous student portfolio showcase event at Wieden+Kennedy! It'll be a good time!

This episode was recorded by AIGA as part of the 2022 AIGA Design Conference in Seattle, Washington, on October 22, 2022.

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Spring break continues with a road trip back to Vancouver, BC! Pamela Rounis (Creative Director at Rethink) joined Sean to talk fishpacking for art majors, space sausage, and the least successful entry in the Air Bud franchise.

You can find Pamela on Instagram (@pamrounis) and Twitter (@pamelarounis).

You can find SAD Magazine, as well as the SADCAST, at sadmag.ca. The show is great, and Pamela’s run is full of heartfelt and funny conversations with some of the best creative folks in Vancouver. Give it a listen—especially since the new season has just kicked off!

This episode was recorded in the offices of Rethink in Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 12, 2022, and was originally published on August 25, 2022.

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Pete Bella of the University of Central Arkansas and host of the Design Dedux podcast joins Sean in a strange new-but-old place to talk Pal’s Sudden Service, the game changing power of the McIntosh, and the worst roommate you could possibly get paired with at RIT.

You can find Pete’s work at petebella.com and @petebellajr on Instagram. You can find his show, Design Dedux, at petebella.com/designdeduxpodcast or wherever you find your podcasts!

This episode was originally recorded on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 during the UCDA Design Education Conference hosted at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, and was first published on June 29, 2022.

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We're taking a few weeks off before the start of season 3 and revisiting some past favorites while we do! Illustrator, designer, educator, and all around cool person Nishat Akhtar (VP of Creative at Instrument) joined Sean in spring 2022 to talk Charles Barkley’s shrimp mistakes, ranking the Four Seasons, and young Sean’s excitement at the possibility of standing on a JPEG. Why not listen? It’s there if you want it!

You can find Nishat’s work at nishataktar.com, @nishat on Instagram (where you can also see Mr. Charles Barkley himself), or on Twitter @nishatsays.

This episode was recorded on April 9, 2022 and originally posted on May 5, 2022.

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We’re closing out Did I Do That?’s second season with all the pomp and circumstance that you can get on sale at WinCo! Nicholas Adenau of Nicholas Is Content rejoins Sean to talk vintage TikTok sounds, lesser known Village People, and the 2023 Did I Do That? Packaging Awards Spectacular: which design will emerge to be the show’s official Arizona Iced Tea Can of 2023?

• You can find Nic’s new consulting business Nicholas is Content at nicholasiscontent.com on the web or @nicholasiscontent on Instagram or TikTok!
• Since we recorded, the Meme Brah account has been discontinued, but you can still visit it on TikTok @memebrah to see some of the joke trains in action. They're lots of fun!
• Nic was our season two finale guest, and you can listen to Nic’s previous episode “Gundam Style” back at episode 15 in your podcast player of choice, or on our website dididothat.design/guests/nicholas-adenau!
• Do you, for some reason, want to learn more about Arnold Palmer’s good works in the field of beverage sciences? Send an email to info@drinkarizona.com and tell them Did I Do That? sent you.

This episode was recorded Saturday, February 4, 2023 in downtown Portland, Oregon. This will be our season two finale—we'll be back in May with new episodes, but will have things for you to listen to every other Thursday until then!

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Summer break continues, and we've got big news: we're launching a newsletter! You can hear the latest about Did I Do That?—including some stuff coming later this summer that's still under wraps—first by going to dididothat.design/newsletter to subscribe.

We're also turning back the clock to season 2 for one of Sean's favorite episodes! Kate Carter (founder and creative director of Saint Friend) joined Sean way back in October 2022 to talk about the heated rivalries between niche dog enthusiast magazines, the parts of the phone that art directors DON’T want you to see, and how to visit a mausoleum on hard mode.

You can find Kate’s work with Saint Friend on the studio’s website, saintfriend.co, or on Instagram @saint_friend. Kate, Nick, and the whole team at Saint Friend do some of the best, most joyful branding work out there, and that team brimming with some of PSUGD’s best and brightest alums to boot. Check them out!

This episode was recorded on Saturday, November 5, 2022 on the campus of Portland State University.

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Mia Nolting (illustrator and author of Slow Noticing: A Journal for Drawing Your World Inside and Out) joins Sean in an especially bespoke episode to talk flossing emergencies, the opposite of instant ramen, and the big, top attractions of the greater Sarasota area.

• Mia’s latest book, Slow Noticing: A Journal for Drawing Your World Inside and Out, comes out April 18, and you can pre-order it now from publisher Penguin Random House, or via whatever bookstore you prefer, be it Powells, Barnes & Noble, Target, Amazon, or an independent bookseller near you through Bookshop.org! Get a copy now!
• You can find more of Mia’s work on her website, mianolting.com, or on Instagram @mianolting. You can see some of her work with Studio Jelly at studiojelly.com.
• Mia has also recently started up a newsletter, so you can get her work delivered directly to your inbox at mianolting.substack.com!

This episode was recorded Saturday, February 18, 2023 in Portland, Oregon.

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‘Tis the season! Freelance art director and former student Rico Macias-Zepeda joins Sean to talk sleepy running shoes, fedora iterations, and the second JNCOming.

• You can find Rico’s work in lots of places, including rico.biz on the web and @rico.something on the ‘gram. Rico does amazing stuff from activations to illustration to brand work, and is just all around awesome!
• Rico is also an alum of the Portland State University course that Sean, past guest Kate Bingaman-Burt, and fellow alum Ciera Tague co-teach called A+D Projects—you can find out more about it at adprojects.design and see Rico’s issue of Annex archived at annex.psu.gd!

This episode was recorded Sunday, January 22, 2023 in Portland, Oregon.

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We’re starting off a new year of recordings right! The hilarious Elizabeth Brown (co-founder of Each Other Studio) joins Sean to talk about holiday salesabrations, ways to maximize the resale value of planet Earth, and where designers’ ideas come from. Keep listening past what feels like it might be the end—it’s an episode that kept its receipts, and not just for the Advil Migraine!

• You can find Elizabeth Brown in lots of places, such as her website elizabethstonebrown.com, or @ebaeglobalmarketplace!
• You can find Elizabeth’s studio Each Other, eachother.studio online and @eachotherstudio on Instagram; she and Ellen Wilde do truly beautiful brand and interior design work for small businesses in the hospitality industry and more!
• You can find Elizabeth’s experimental theater project, Caruthers Brothers, at @caruthers_brothers!

This episode was recorded Friday, January 6, 2023 in Portland, Oregon.

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To close out 2022 and usher in 2023, we’re calling in The Fixer! “Logotype surgeon” and type designer Dan Rhatigan (Director of Type Products at Type Network) sits down with Sean to talk about failing successfully, gifts from fast food heaven, and not quite getting to act with Gwyneth Paltrow in a high school musical.

You can find Dan’s work all over the internet—his blog is at ultrasparky.org, and he can be found @ultrasparky on Twitter and @bijoutype on Instagram. Speaking of the latter, his foundry Bijou Type (bijoutype.com) should be up an d running soon with an update of Dan’s beautiful graduate school typeface project you can add to your own type collection. His fantastic Pink Mince zine series can be found and purchased at pinkmince.com and @pinkmince on Twitter.

This episode was recorded Tuesday, December 20, 2022 in Portland, Oregon.

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Are you ready for "HOW!?" 15 of today's hottest superstars (who happened to be guests on season one of Did I Do That?) in one collection (of audio clips from their respective episodes of Did I Do That? lightly reedited and compiled into a single MP3 file). Move into a new dimension with some of the season's biggest guests—I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you need, as long as you listen!

Chart-toppers from Nishat Akhtar, Adam Garcia, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Jason Sturgill, and more. "HOW" delivers nothing but the biggest hits you crave, but to get them, press the button on your screen to play! There's never been a season of this podcast presented as a collection like this before, UNTIL NOW.

Featuring:

• 0:00 Nishat Akhtar
• 0:31 Introduction
• 5:41 Ethan Allen Smith
• 7:23 Alanna Risse
• 9:06 Pete Bella
• 14:26 Briar Levit
• 21:05 Adam Garcia
• 21:55 Taryn Cowart
• 25:48 Kate Bingaman-Burt
• 27:17 Jason Sturgill
• 34:00 Jackie Brown
• 39:17 Nic Adenau
• 42:25 Kyle Letendre
• 43:59 Lizy Gershenzon
• 47:49 Jordan Rosenblum
• 51:09 Closing
• 56:45 Brendan Mulligan

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We’re marking Did I Do That?’s one year anniversary—and our 24th hour of conversations with designers—with a very special guest indeed! Aaron Draplin (of Draplin Design Co., Field Notes, and many more things) joins Sean to talk retail conversations, the platforms coming to replace Twitter, and courting controversy on the slopes.

Where you can find Aaron's work:

• You can find Aaron and the Draplin Design Co. on Instagram and Twitter @draplin. There, you can find some of the work Aaron mentioned, including his recent Tenacious D poster.
• You can find his website, along with his merch store, at draplin.com.
• You can find the book Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything available for purchase online at ddcbook.com or at most major bookstores, including our beloved Powell’s Books if you should happen to want to buy in Portland. It’s very affordable and one heck of a gorgeous volume.
• Draplin’s many gorgeous Field Notes brand notebooks and sketchbooks can be found all over the world in tons of major retailers, but you can also get them at fieldnotesbrand.com—they make a great stocking stuffer!

This episode was recorded at the offices of Draplin Design Co. in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, November 19, 2022.

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Fire up your word processor and dial into TeleBears because we’re back in Portland! Kate Carter (founder and creative director of Saint Friend) joins Sean to talk about the heated rivalries between niche dog enthusiast magazines, the parts of the phone that art directors DON’T want you to see, and how to visit a mausoleum on hard mode.

You can find Kate’s work with Saint Friend on the studio’s website, saintfriend.co, or on Instagram @saint_friend. Kate, Nick, and the whole team at Saint Friend do some of the best, most joyful branding work out there, and that team brimming with some of PSUGD’s best and brightest alums to boot. Check them out!

This episode was recorded on Saturday, November 5, 2022 on the campus of Portland State University.

Check out our website: dididothat.design! It will be less bad soon—I promise!

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Those tossed salads and scrambled eggs must be calling again, because Did I Do That? is in Seattle for the AIGA Design Conference! Lee-Sean Huang (Creative Director of Foossa and Director of Design Content & Learning at AIGA) joins Sean to talk dialup conspiracies, leveraging the combined might of the Center for Academic Precocity and the Cronkite School of Journalism to make a reality show, and what business people think about.

You can find more about Lee-Sean at his website, leesean.net, or follow him nearly anywhere social by searching for the handle @leesean. You can find the Lee-Sean's podcasting work with the at anchor.fm/aigadesign, or by searching for "AIGA Design Podcasts" wherever you prefer your pod-based experiences are found. You can learn more about Foossa’s work in service design, futurecasting, and more at foossa.com.

This episode was recorded at the 2022 AIGA Design Conference in Seattle, Washington on Saturday, October 22, 2022.

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Is Did I Do That? back on the road at Bend Design? Yer darn tootin’! Laurie Rosenwald (author of How to Make Mistakes on Purpose) joins Sean to talk about the excitement of small town parking structures, the world’s top travel destination for both lost baggage and lost Canadians, and the sabot: the wooden shoe for all occasions!

You can find Laurie’s work, workshops, and links to buy her books at her website, rosenworld.com.

This episode was recorded in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, October 13, 2022. You can find out more about the yearly Bend Design Week conference at scalehouse.org/benddesign.

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Today’s your lucky day! Portland design legend Josh Berger of Plazm joins Sean to talk Jello’s good advice, elevation-related nicknames, and why you should always keep your receipt when you buy a “gently used” Xerox machine from the State of Oregon.

You can find Josh’s work online at joshuaberger.com, or on Twitter at @joshua_berger. You can find a recording of Josh’s talk, “How I Broke My Brain **and Changed My Mind,” on his website or on the Hand-Eye Supply YouTube channel.

Check out plazm.com to see the work from across Plazm’s wide-ranging portfolio, and you can even pick up some back issues of the magazine there. If you want to see some of the pieces described in this episode, or just want to dive into some of the design and editorial context around the magazine, visit magazine.plazm.com or check out @p_l_a_z_m on Instagram.

Special thanks to Marti Clemmons and the team at Portland State University Library’s Special Collections and University Archives their support in the production of this episode. You can find most of the pieces Josh described in their collection, along with tons of other cool, rare works from Portland’s art and design scenes.

This episode was recorded at the Portland State University Art Building on Friday, September 30, 2022.

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Andy Pressman (independent creative director and future author of “Why Taxicabs Are Upside Down and On Fire”) joins Sean to talk problematic salsa cities, the joys of in-person work, and Pee-Wee Herman’s Magical Zoom Machine.

You can find Andy on Twitter (@andypressman) or check out his reverse job posting at andypressman.notion.site!

This episode was recorded at the Portland State University Art Building on Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

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Batten down the hatches, mateys! Vida Jurcic (Founder of Hangar 18 and instructor at the IDEA School of Design at Capilano University) joins Sean to talk about her brushes with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the dangers of Dinosaur Park, and what models do in their spare time.

You can find Vida’s studio, Hangar 18 Design Continuum, at h18.com, and Vida herself on LinkedIn at LinkedIn! Vida also teaches at Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design—their student work is tremendous, and you can see it (and more of Vida’s writing) at ideaschoolofdesign.com.

This episode was recorded adjacent to the offices of Hangar 18 in Gastown, Vancouver, BC on August 15, 2022. Special thanks to the guy who came in to make and eat his lunch without saying anything while we were recording: may we all bring that level of confident indifference to the stuff that stands in the way of our happiness into the future. You do you, friend!

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Jiminy Jillikers! Illustrator Hiller Goodspeed joins Sean to talk about the Spirit Halloween Cinematic Universe, the most luxurious travel accommodations you can afford on an academic salary, and clown car commuters.

You can find Hiller on Instagram (@hillergoodspeed), Twitter (also @hillergoodspeed), or Tumblr (https://hillergoodspeed.tumblr.com)!

You can find Hiller’s latest book Pond Life at Perfectly Acceptable Press (https://perfectly-acceptable.com/item/pond-life/)! It’s tons of fun and a really beautiful book inside and out!

This episode was recorded at AM Studios in Vancouver, BC on August 12, 2022.

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Did I Do That? is back—it’s got aches and pains, but it's also got magic! Pamela Rounis (Creative Director at Rethink) joins Sean to talk fishpacking for art majors, space sausage, and the least successful entry in the Air Bud franchise.

You can find Pamela on Instagram (@pamrounis) and Twitter (@pamelarounis).

You can find SADMAG, as well as the SADCAST, at sadmag.ca. The show is great, and Pamela’s run is full of heartfelt and funny conversations with some of the best creative folks in Vancouver. Give it a listen!

This episode was recorded in the Vancouver, BC offices of Rethink in on August 12, 2022.

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