Did I Do That?

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.designInstagram: @dididothat.designYouTube: @dididothat.designLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/80225251 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.—Check out our website: dididothat.designInstagram: @dididothat.designYouTube: @dididothat.design— Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're turning the clock back to the close of season one to close this inter-season spring break! Way back in June of 2022, meme curator and design leader Nicholas Adenau (currently of TikTok's NicholasIsContent and MemeBrah, but then of Lofi Art School) joined Sean to talk Sha Na Na, Jackass’ leadership lessons, and the sketchiest way to send a $30,000 chain when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.