216: Barns, Gumbo and Scriptoriums with Type Designer, Matthijs Herzberg
In this episode, I sit down with an incredible type designer to talk about his process, his letters and ultimately, barns, gumbo and...
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Diana Varma
Oct 92 min read
212: Type Talk with Peter Ha
It’s Peter! Peter Ha is a designer, artist and educator. He is a co-founder of Equal Parts Studio, a Toronto-based contemporary graphic...
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Diana Varma
Sep 232 min read
210: Play, Passion Projects and Butts with Sophie Elinor Brown
Welcome to a fun deep dive into typography, play, passion projects and butts, with self-proclaimed Type Dork, Sophie Elinor Brown! Sophie...
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Diana Varma
May 32 min read
191: Emerging Typeface Designers Max Berardi & Cecilia Ly
It's become a Talk Paper Scissors tradition to feature the incredible work of up-and-coming typeface designers in this space (check out...
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Diana Varma
Apr 303 min read
190:Experimentation, Iteration & Democratization in Font Creation with with Franz Hoffman of Fontself
One of my favourite things is connecting with someone around a shared passion, whether in-person or virtually, whether locally or...
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Diana Varma
Apr 172 min read
189: Designing Variable Type with That That Harbor Bickmore
Today’s guest is the best designer in the world! [Source: his website, TheBestDesignerInTheWorld.com] His name is Harbor Bickmore and he...
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Diana Varma
Apr 43 min read
186: Typefaces of Toronto with Jeremy Gladstone
There are few things more typographically satisfying than recognizing type in the wild. Gotham over here, Futura over there, Helvetica...
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Diana Varma
Apr 31 min read
185: Constraint and Consistency with Ben O'Neil
I love a new and innovative typography project when I see one! I recently came across the work of Illustrator and Designer, Ben O’Neil,...
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Diana Varma
Mar 152 min read
182: Arial: An Incomplete History of Type
From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer...
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Diana Varma
Mar 144 min read
181: Myriad: An Incomplete History of Type
From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer...
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Diana Varma
Mar 136 min read
180: Baskerville: An Incomplete History of Type
From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer...
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Diana Varma
Mar 112 min read
179: Luxurious Letterforms with David Soto
This is the sixth (bonus!) episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with type professionals from all over the world! We just...
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Diana Varma
Mar 82 min read
178: Aligning Type and Aligning Values with Melanie Johnsson
This is the fifth episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with type professionals from all over the world! We just finished up...
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Diana Varma
Mar 62 min read
177: Chalk Paper Scissors with Andrea Cataro
This is the fourth episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with type professionals from all over the world! We just finished...
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Diana Varma
Feb 282 min read
176: Nigerian Type Perspectives with Jordan Belonwu
This is the third episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with type professionals from all over the world! We just finished up...
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Diana Varma
Feb 242 min read
175: Alllllllll the Alphabets with Chris Rouleau
This is the second episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with type professionals from all over the world! We just finished...
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Diana Varma
Feb 212 min read
174: Designing with Type for the Entertainment Industry with Chris Ellinas
My Advanced Typography class this semester dared to go where no Advanced Typography class has gone before... it was our most ambitious...
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Diana Varma
Dec 15, 20232 min read
171: Constructing Invert with Anna Khorash
In this final episode of 2024, I sit down with type designer, Anna Khorash. Anna is currently based in The Hague, Netherlands, where she...
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Diana Varma
Dec 13, 20232 min read
170: Legibility, Readability and Likeability with Eleni Beveratou, Creative Director Dalton Maag
The conversation you’re about to hear is the second episode recorded live at RGD’s DesignThinkers Toronto 2023 conference. I sat down...
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Diana Varma
Dec 12, 20233 min read
169: Fonts for a Connected World with Typotheque's Peter Bil'ak and Kevin King
For the first time in almost 170 episodes, I recorded live with guests in the same room, which was a completely new, different and...
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