Did I Do That?

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

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

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!Check out our website: dididothat.designInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube: @dididothat.design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

‘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.Check out our website: dididothat.designInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube: @dididothat.design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Check out our website: dididothat.designFree monthly newsletter and Patreon: patreon.com/dididothatdesignInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube: @dididothat.design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Check out our website: dididothat.designFree monthly newsletter and Patreon: patreon.com/dididothatdesignInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube: @dididothat.designPlease rate, review, and subscribe to this show wherever your enjoy your podcasts, and tell a friend about this show IRL if they seem like they’d be into it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Akhtar0:31 Introduction5:41 Ethan Allen Smith7:23 Alanna Risse9:06 Pete Bella14:26 Briar Levit21:05 Adam Garcia21:55 Taryn Cowart25:48 Kate Bingaman-Burt27:17 Jason Sturgill34:00 Jackie Brown39:17 Nic Adenau42:25 Kyle Letendre43:59 Lizy Gershenzon47:49 Jordan Rosenblum51:09 Closing56:45 Brendan MulliganCheck out our website: dididothat.designFree monthly newsletter and Patreon: patreon.com/dididothatdesignInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube (new!): @dididothat.design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Please leave a rating or review for the show on your podcast platform of choice. Telling a friend or a random person at Safeway is also a great way to keep the show growing—plus, the deals can’t be beat!Check out our website: dididothat.designFree monthly newsletter and Patreon: patreon.com/dididothatdesignInstagram: @dididothat.designTwitter (for now???): @designbycmteYouTube: @dididothat.design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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