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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 29/01/2026

…we hope. Season 8 of Did I Do That? is on our doorstep, but while we wait for it to arrive in just three weeks time, we’re sharing another back catalog favorite with Eason Yang! Give it a listen anywhere you get podcasts or on the web at dididothat.design.

Did I Do That? overlaid on a photo of Eason Yang

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 01/01/2026

Happy new year! 🎊 To kick off 2026, Did I Do That? Is asking your help to shape the future of the show! Find our listener survey at tiny.cc/thatsurvey On the feed, we’re sharing a past favorite that might be new to you, our 2023 episode with the great Mallary Wilson. Enjoy!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 18/12/2025

Hey Bluesky—I'm back! What did I miss? Since I was last here, we wrapped up Season 7 with incredible, fun guests including James Junk, Ryan Swedenborg, and Mariah Baranby-Norris chatting about their design mistakes! Give it a listen, maybe? ▶️ dididothat.design/seasons/7

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 14/08/2025

Seattle! 🏆 If you've been wanting to see a very silly upside-down design award show, have I got the event for you! I'm returning to ‪Seattle Design Festival‬ this Saturday for "DIDT Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel! It's going to be a great time—8/16 at 1pm in Lake Union Park!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 31/07/2025

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! - Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 17/07/2025

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 17/07/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 19/06/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 18/06/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 06/06/2025

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!

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 05/06/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 28/05/2025

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!

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 14/05/2025

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! - Hear the show at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

"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.

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 01/05/2025

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. — Listen and subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you get podcasts!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 01/05/2025

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!

"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.

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 27/04/2025

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 17/04/2025

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!

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 14/04/2025

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!

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 03/04/2025

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!

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 30/03/2025

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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 20/03/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 19/03/2025

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! - Subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

"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.

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 14/03/2025

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?

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.

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 06/03/2025

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!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 06/03/2025

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! Subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

“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

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 28/02/2025

Introducing the new (and kinda, sorta) improved Did I Do That? Website! With a fresh coat of paint to match the new show art comes a bunch of new features: places for new listeners to find episodes to start with, an improved catalog sorter with better guest profiles, and a true home for Fontroversy!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 20/02/2025

What does it mean to be a designer? Re-Introducing Did I Do That?. Season 6 drops March 6—find it wherever you get podcasts!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 23/01/2025

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! Lena & I talk through type’s best known knock-off(?), Arial. Give it a listen—it’s so much fun! www.dididothat.design/episode/font...

Fontroversy Live from the 2024 AIGA Design Conference (also, the joke is that this is Grotesque MT)

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 09/01/2025

We talked through the terrifying IRL proportions of my alma mater’s former mascot, the curse of eternal life (via stock photo modeling), and InDesign’s spellcheck dictionary. It’s a good time if you need something to brighten up this morning!

A bronze statue of a horrifyingly bobble-headed “mountain man” figure, sits in a garbage dump with a tire dangling from the brim of his “cowboy” hat. And on the statue’s base, these words appear: “My name is Hey Reb!, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! And yes, the exclamation mark is part of my name, stop asking about it.”

A common image of a man posing for a stock photo who is on the verge of tears, smiling through the pain.

Bad suggestions for what word InDesign might think you mean if it doesn’t know the word Louisville. “Louse vile” isn’t my best work, but I bet Louisvillians still will NOT like it.

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 09/01/2025

Finale be damned—I’m still putting out new-ish stuff! Today in the feed, the Did I Do That? live show at Seattle Design Festival with guest Terry Marks is up on stage! It’s a great fun time and hard to imagine we recorded it OUTSIDE given the current temps. Listen at dididothat.design!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 12/12/2024

Here’s a little taste of what we talked about, along with tons more! It’s a good time—check it out!

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 12/12/2024

It’s the finale of Did I Do That? Season Five and our 3rd anniversary—this really must be the best of both worlds! Ely Kim joins Sean to talk about childhood limousine dreams, casino carpet, and memorable fast food mascots. Be sure to listen through to the end! dididothat.design/episode/visu...

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 01/12/2024

(I also make terrifying “comps” for each episode around topics that come up in the conversation, so you’ll have to listen to know what the heck these are all about)

Heavily discounted Facebook Marketplace listing for that messed up Jesus painting

A confused Don Draper presents the sequel to squares, Square 2, which he is only now realizing is clearly just a pentagon.

A polish hot dog is having its mustard painted on with a nail polish brush (unless… the hand painting it is itself manicured with mustard)

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Did I Do That? @dididothat.design · 01/12/2024

My most recent episode is a super fun one, and full of great stories about moving away from design to open up other creative possibilities in your life. Plus, we talk a lot about both the Muppets and Five Guys for complicated reasons. Maybe give it a listen? www.dididothat.design/episode/mupp...

Did I Do That?: A Podcast About Making Graphic Design & Mistakes, with guest Libby Landauer

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