Did I Do That?

Sean Schumacher
Did I Do That?

A podcast about graphic designers and the mistakes creative folks have to make on the way to making something great… or anything at all. Hosted by Sean Schumacher (Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Did I Do That? presents Fontroversy: Arial, Live at AIGA Design Conference 2024

    JAN 23 · BONUS

    Did I Do That? presents Fontroversy: Arial, Live at AIGA Design Conference 2024

    To kick off 2025, Did I Do That? is turning back the clock back to the waning days of Brat Summer for Fontroversy, live at the AIGA Design Conference! Host Lena Hall (freelance designer) and producer Sean Schumacher (Host of Did I Do That? and Ass’t Professor at PSUGD) talk through type’s best known knock-off(?), Arial. Is it a grotesque Frankensteining or merely a case of typeface carcinisation? Is Arial hate the design blogosphere’s first hot take? Is Lena the only person ever to have actually watched the Minecraft: Story Mode show? ABOUT THE SHOW: Fontroversy is a limited series podcast created by Portland State University Graphic Design students in 2023. You can learn more about PSU’s Schnitzer School of Art, Art History, and Design at pdx.edu/art-design. This edition was presented as part of the AIGA Design Conference in October 2024. Special thanks to Lee-Sean Huang and the team at AIGA for selecting us to be a part of the conference. We 3 AIGA! WANT TO HEAR MORE? For more episodes of Fontroversy and our parent show Did I Do That?, visit dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / YouTube / Pocket Casts / Overcast / Castro CREDITS: Host: Lena HallCrew: Tom Cheevers, Tori Mize, Toni Morales, Donovan Wilson-CarrProduction Assistance (and playing Schumacher’s Monster): Orion CortezShow Art: Robert DittyTheme: “How Can Things Be” by HoliznaProducer: Sean SchumacherNOTE: This episode differs slightly from the live version due to technical issues on the stream. Apologies for the less-than-ideal audio quality, particularly in the first ten minutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    39 min
  2. Live at Seattle Design Festival 2024 (with Terry Marks)

    JAN 9

    Live at Seattle Design Festival 2024 (with Terry Marks)

    We’re kicking off the new year at Did I Do That? with something old, something new (to some of you), and something borrowed, so don’t be blue: it’s our live show from Seattle Design Festival 2024! Seattle’s own Terry Marks joined Sean on the mainstage in Lake Union Park to talk through Hey Reb!’s proportions, the curse of eternal life (via stock photo modeling), and InDesign’s spellcheck dictionary. If you want to find more about Terry’s work, the best place to visit is tmarksdesign.com! While I am happy to direct any calls back to Terry, feel free to reach out to him if you’re interested in the reprint edition of Mr. Crumbley Dreams a Tiger. While this is an audio-only version of the outdoor recording, you can watch the video version of this episode on SDF’s YouTube channel. Too, while I’ve done my best to clean up the ambient noise present on the day, you may hear the odd bit of wind noise as well as more than a few seagulls. May these soothing sounds of summer help warm you through a chilly January. Big thanks to Terry Marks for being a part, as well as to the whole crew at Seattle Design Festival! It was such a treat to be a part of it! Thanks to Annalee Shum for coordinating and programming us, to our volunteer Maxine to helping with the production, and to Adrian Pacheco who both worked the boards for the event and was kind enough to share these files! Thanks, and goodnight, Seattle! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m
  3. Tales from the Making Mistakes Confessional, Volume II

    10/31/2024

    Tales from the Making Mistakes Confessional, Volume II

    The Simpsons switches formats to horror anthology series this time of year, so shall Did I Do That?—we’ve got a collection of some of the scariest design disasters, missteps, failures, and goofs that have haunted designers this past summer at Future Fonts & Friends 2024! How can our anonymous designer ghosts find peace when haunted by a trifecta of specters in the form of opening up your letters’ chakras, gingerbread power moves, and the challenges of Lidz franchising. Listen… IF YOU DARE! 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 confessions used in this episode were collected as part of “Future Fonts and Friends,” a party held for TypeCon 2024 at Outlet in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, July 25, 2024. All guests were cloaked in the shadow of anonymity—the scariest thing of all in our personal brand building world! Take that, social media! Thank you to all who came out and participated! Huge thanks again to 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 (once again) to MVP Orion Cortez for building the confessional booths way back in 2023 based solely on two terrible sketches I made, then coming back out in 2024 to help me set them up again. 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. This episode features a parody of Billie Eilish’s new song “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” and a parody of the character the Crypt Keeper, brought to death by John Kassir. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    51 min
5
out of 5
25 Ratings

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A podcast about graphic designers and the mistakes creative folks have to make on the way to making something great… or anything at all. Hosted by Sean Schumacher (Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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