Did I Do That?

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 [email protected] 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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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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