Illustrator and artist Allie Yacina sits down with Sean to talk about their design mistakes… as well as Good Friends, ways to keep a cool head during a job interview, and summiting the Rockies in a Miata. It’s the episode that’ll make you do the shuffling-your-hands-back-and-forth dance that’s sweeping the nation, which is called The… uh…?
Allie Yacina is an artist, illustrator, teacher and designer residing in Portland, OR since 2016. Her work explores color and sense of place through traditional and digital media. Her paintings have been shown in local galleries and her illustrations have been published in editorials as well as limited edition poster prints for clients such as the Portland Parks Foundation and the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership. Her work was selected for the Society of Illustrators 65th annual show in the editorial and book category. Allie teaches sketchbook classes at Ulna Studios and works full-time as an illustrator and designer for local mobile game developer Brainium Studios (PlayStudios). Allie currently lives in Portland, Oregon and spends her free-time working in her sketchbook, rock climbing, and exploring the incredible PNW.
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Did I Do That? is a podcast about graphic designers—the ups and downs they face in creative practice, because making design means making lots (and lots) of mistakes.
Every other Thursday, host Sean Schumacher (Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University) is joined by a designer guest to share stories about their own mistakes starting out and how they ended up where they did. It’s very weird, pretty silly, and definitely not serious—but neither are designers.
