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Did I Do That?

Sean Schumacher

Booking Overview

An interview-led design and career podcast focused on graphic designers’ professional mistakes, creative failures, and lessons learned, typically featuring working designers, art directors, and design educators. Suitable pitches include experienced graphic designers, creative directors, design leaders, and educators with compelling project missteps or practical perspectives on creative careers; booking difficulty is low because the show favors accessible industry professionals over high-profile celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 127

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 120 subscribers

Instagram: 1.8k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

sean@seanschumacher.com

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Host

Sean Schumacher - Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University and a graphic design educator focused on creative practice and professional development.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Working graphic designers, art directors, creative leaders, product designers, or design educators with substantial professional experience and a willingness to discuss specific mistakes, rejected work, or lessons from challenging projects.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership roles at recognizable design, technology, retail, or entertainment organizations, Teaching, research, or senior-level professional experience in design, Award recognition or notable work for established brands and organizations

Recent Guest Discussions

Dave Pabellon - Graphic Design Mistakes, Design Labor, Design Justice, And The Role Of Designers In Activist And Community Contexts.

Sean Bucknam - Regrettable Design Projects, Typography, Branding, Illustration, Art Direction, And Creative Problem-solving.

Colby Nichols - Regrettable Design Projects, Creative Leadership, Collaboration, And Lessons From Managing Multidisciplinary Work.

Olivia Johnson - Creative Mistakes, Product And Design Work, Data Visualization, And Unconventional Visual Techniques.

Recent Topics

Design, Graphic Design, Design Education, Creative Careers, Design Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Did I Do That?
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You’ll Be Fine (with Dave Pabellon)

September 17, 2026

This is not Casual Encounters! We’re trying to do design here! The great Dave Pabellon (Assistant Professor of Design at University of Notre Dame) sits down with Sean to talk about his design mistakes… as well as the Costanza Maneuver, Scantron aesthetics, and the Rivers that run through it (it being multiple Chicago neighborhoods in very different parts of town).ABOUT THE GUEST: Dave Pabellon is a design educator, researcher, and practitioner under the moniker It Is Just Dave LLC, with over ...

Back to the Bottom of the Barrel (with Colby Nichols & Sean Bucknam, Live at Seattle Design Festival 2026)

September 03, 2026

Did I Do That? is back with a new live show direct from the mainstage of Seattle Design Festival 2026! Listen as the great Colby Nichols (Art Director, Print Innovation for Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast) and Sean Bucknam (Senior Designer at Starbucks) square off with their most regrettable past work to see whose is bad enough for Seattle's favorite mythical raccoon to want to fish it out of the dumpster.Want to see the slides (and work) we shared on stage? Check out all our ima...

Plastic Heaven (with Olivia Johnson) [Rerun]

August 20, 2026

I’m away this week, so rather than giving a summer update backed by the soothingly persistent rumble of a hotel air conditioner, I thought I’d share a straight-up rerun—though one inspired by our sister Portland art school (and, of course, hated rivals) PNCA hosting her for a recent talk as part of their Design Lecture Series.Way back in 2022 as part of season 3, Olivia Johnson (then an Associate Design Director at Instrument, now a Senior Product Designer at eBay) joined Sean to talk challen...

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sean@seanschumacher.com

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