Did I Do That?

First Steps is already onto its second steps! Gabe and Sean are joined by musical director Nica Mork to talk puppet-making, Korean skincare aesthetics, and how Bruce Wayne lost his fortune. Plus, design student confessions & more!
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In this first episode, my co-host Gabe Bidney and I talk through through Airbnb’s Frutiger Aero pivot, the BREATHTAKING geometry behind the Pepsi Smile, and Prince’s font floppies. Plus: Gabe’s Gauntlet and Design Student Confessions! dididothat.design

Hey, did you know I made a podcast with my design students and you can hear it right now? Probably not, because I forgot to post it here two weeks ago! But it’s super good and the first episode is out now at dididothat.design!

Could it be? Did I Do That?’s season 6 finale is also our especially nice 69th episode?! In this world, it’s possible! Colin Strandberg joins Sean to talk vehicle wraps, The Family, and Sonic’s wallet woes. Listen wherever you get podcasts or at dididothat.design!

How much fire is too much for a T-shirt design? Find out Thursday from the special guest on our season 6 finale! Hear it tomorrow wherever you get podcasts or on the web at dididothat.design!

New on Did I Do That? Thom Hines, Professor of IX Design, Portland State University. Listen anywhere you find podcasts, or dididothat.design.

Say goodbye to solvable problems because Did I Do That? is BACK! Thom Hines (Professor of Interaction Design at @psugd) joins Sean on the pogcast to talk about early 2000s burner culture, fake search engines, and the tireless Tom Hanks. Listen here: dididothat.design!

Whose design journey started because they chose a marathon gaming session over their internship interview? Listen Thursday to find out—Did I Do That? is back with a brand new episode! Hear it tomorrow wherever you get podcasts or at our site, dididothat.design!

While I hate having to delay our regular schedule, the studio break-in a few weeks back combined with a perfect storm of other problems made it rather unavoidable. Rest assured, though, you will not be disappointed! Keep an ear out for it Thursday, June 5, and then our season finale on June 19!

Apologies! This week's episode is on backorder. Due in part to the studio burglary a few weeks ago, we'll be pushing this week's regularly scheduled episode back a week to Thursday, June 5. The good news: It's a great ep, so keep your eyes peeled for it NEXT THURSDAY! Thank you for your patience while we restock our season 6 inventory!

Eager to hear a new Did I Do That? Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a little longer—our next episode will be dropping Thursday, June 5. Sorry about that!

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Let a new Did I Do That? light a fire under your ass! Legendary illustrator Lisa Congdon joins Sean to talk about what’s in teachers’ dreams, poetry awards, and hamster wheels.
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"I wanna stay small because I don't want my life to become complicated or stressful. Well…" Find out who said it Thursday on a new Did I Do That?. Listen anywhere you find podcasts or dididothat.design.

Whose creative busyness got in the way of their creativity and their business? Listen Thursday to a new Did I Do That? to find out!
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We’re wreaking havoc on a new Did I Do That?! Advertising idea guy and art dude Peter Yue joins Sean to talk about Jeff Bezos’ hedge fund, Las Vegas bartenders, and the most terrifying thing Gen Z found inside Pandora’s Box.
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"I recently looked at my transcript and was like, dude, I could've been a doctor!" Find out who said it Thursday on a new Did I Do That?. Listen anywhere you find podcasts or at dididothat.design.

Which ad legend switched majors so late in college that he may as well have been going for his M.D.? Let this be your prescription to listen tomorrow and find out—new episodes drop on dididothat.design or whenever you get podcasts!

It's been a jam-packed week, but we still need to share the Cursed Comps for Kel Lauren's episode! Kel and Sean talked about anniversary cereals, the intersection of goth and twee, and what a rock star does with three grand. It's a great listen! dididothat.design

I apologize, and am doing my best to keep minimize the disruption because I know this silly show means a lot to some folks out there! The show must go on!

The bright side: I had already recorded two more episodes, which will keep us publishing for at least the next month. After that, though, there might be a short break in our otherwise steady schedule while I iron out details about how to move forward.

This past weekend, we suffered a break-in at PSU, which included the Rat's Nest, the show's recording studio. I'm safe and sound, but the damage included equipment pretty vital for recording the show—namely, the stuff that actually does the recording. You definitely need that, it turns out.

Kel Lauren: Merchandise Designer & Design Content Creator, new on Did I Do That?. Listen anywhere you find podcasts or dididothat.design.

Have Gunther pour you a hot cup of cereal, because our little indie show has hit season 6's midpoint! Kel Lauren joins Sean to talk about anniversary cereals, the intersection of goth and twee, and what a rock star does with three grand. Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you cast pods!

Three birds and their weedeater sibling hatch out of the nasty edible easter grass that looks like weedeater thread

A guillotine (cutter) for sale on Facebook Marketplace that will almost certainly get 30 separate accidental "Hi, is this available?" messages before one real buyer emerges.

Fun fact: Frasier actually wasn't intending to go to Chicago; SFO was just so foggy that they had to reroute to O'Hare

Cursed comps from our Ben Barry have just hatched! Check them out and listen—we talked about edible arrangements for Spring, the secondary market for guillotines, and realizing that it’s time (for Frasier) to move on (from the hit NBC sitcom Frasier). Find it at dididothat.design & other pod places!

"One of the prompts was 'draw nothing…' and I drew my wallet and a giant arrow pointing at the wallet." Find out who said it tomorrow (or, really, today, because I forgot to post this here yesterday) on a new Did I Do That? Listen anywhere you find podcasts or dididothat.design.

Ben Barry: New on Did I Do That?! Listen anywhere you find podcasts or dididothat.design

Feeling too arty for the nerds and too nerdy for the artists? Have we got the sweet spot for you! Ben Barry joins Sean to talk about edible arrangements, the secondary market for guillotines, and realizing that it’s time (for Frasier) to move on (from Frasier). Listen at dididothat.design!

Did you know that I forgot to post Bob's comps here until just now? Or can you not know what you don't know? #ontologybsky

Did I Do That? is going back to school! Bob Aufuldish (of Aufuldish & Warriner and CCA) joins Sean to talk about designer golfballs, the challenge of being taken seriously as a young professor, and typeface impulse buys. 🌁 Listen and subscribe wherever you get podcasts or at dididothat.design!

"Like, whatever bullshit I could conjure up and convince somebody of, I got to do." Find out who said it tomorrow on a new Did I Do That? Listen anywhere you find podcasts or dididothat.design.

Whose scrappy strategy for getting through design school accidentally kickstarted their teaching career? Listen in tomorrow and find out in the last of our Bay Area episodes!
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Sid’s cobbled-together toys from Toy Story

MTV’s very 1998 looking series The Grind, for some reason in album form, for even less reason sponsored by Clean & Clear

No Face from Spirited Away is what happened to all the empty shelves at Rite Aid. Fire him.

I’ve been calling the three images I make from each episode’s description “cursed comps” to myself for a while. These 3 were taken from our latest ep with Alyssa Walker! Check out dididothat.design to read that description and maybe understand what’s going on here?

Resting Smile Face (with Alyssa Walker) - Did I Do That? A Podcast About Graphic Designers Making Mistakes In this episode, Creative Director at WIRED Alyssa Walker chats about design careers and making mistakes. Episode 62 was published Mar 06, 2025.

Listening to the latest @dididothat.design episode this morning featuring Creative Director at Wired, Alyssa Walker.
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Thank you so much for listening and sharing!

Alyssa Walker, Design Director at WIRED

We’ve clawed our way to San Francisco for the season 6 premiere of Did I Do That?! The incredible Alyssa Walker (Creative Director at @wired.com) joins Sean to talk about where new toys come from, grind mode, and the Miyazaki of Rite Aid. Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts!

Tonight, which exhausted producer both sent this guest show art with their job title wrong on it and spent an hour trying to figure out why the theme song sounded distorted before realizing they’d somehow added automatic pitch correction to the master track for no reason. That secret dies with me!

“I’ll just do it and I won’t sleep and it’ll be fine!” New tomorrow on the season premiere of Did I Do That? Listen anywhere you get podcasts or at dididothat.design

Which designer shared this strategy for getting through their hardest creative moments on Did I Do That?'s season 6 premiere episode? Where did Sean go to record it? Listen in tomorrow and find out!

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