Introducing Fontroversy, a new limited-run series coming July 20!

07/13/23 • 1 min

Wanna know the stories behind all the fonts we love to hate? Introducing Fontroversy, a limited-run series about typefaces that just aren't quite our type, hosted by Lena Hall. Listen every other Thursday starting July 20!

Fontroversy is produced by Sean Schumacher (Did I Do That? podcast) and created by the students of the Spring 2023 Public Design Communication course from PSUGD, part of the Portland State University School of Art Design.

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Previous Episode

I Wanna See A Weird Hat (with Mallary Wilson)

Freelance designer, grad student, and fellow Portland Institute for Contemporary Art design alum Mallary Wilson joins Sean to talk inadvertently inappropriate imagery, erasers shaped like food items, and hoarding AOL hours. It’s an episode that’s unforgivably uncool, but we can dig it!

You can find Mallary on the web at mallarydesigns.com or @mallarydesigns on Instagram—if you work at an agency and are looking for somebody killer to bring onto your team, reach out!
If you’re wondering what the heck we’re talking about with regards to PICA and TBA and all, that, check out PICA.org—those around Portland may know them for their annual Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. It is a weird, good time, and brings parts of the artistic globe to Portland you might never see otherwise.

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Next Episode

You Seem Competent (with Andy McMillan)

Our fun, weird guest Andy McMillan of XOXO, Suckerpunch, and Heck Beer joins Sean for several different kinds of incredible niche podcasts all wrapped into one episode to talk about what’s next in tech, the parts of a balanced breakfast, and the terrible things you might find lurking in the forest. It’s the episode where unbridled enthusiasm meets lowered expectations!

Andy can be found these days at andymcmillan.com, or turning LinkedIn into the weird, wild place it was never meant to be at linkedin.com/in/goodonpaper. Give LinkedIn a chance, won’t you?
You can find more about Heck, Andy’s new non-alcoholic craft beer, at heck.beer. Sign up for their newsletter there to be notified when tasting pop-ups pop up!

Also, for real, if you send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, I will indeed send you back a self-addressed stamped envelope—I promise you no merch, signed glossy headshots, or anything else—just pure snail-mailed... delight? Is that the word? Get out your pens and make out your envelopes to: Portland State University School of Art+Design, c/o Sean Schumacher, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland OR 97201.

This episode was recorded Sunday, July 9, 2023.

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