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Diana Varma
Dec 16, 20241 min read
222: Mindfully Creative with Radim Malinic
Welcome to the next stop on our international tour with guests from across the pond. This time, we’re headed to the UK to speak with...
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Diana Varma
Dec 13, 20242 min read
221: Breaking the (Printing) Mold with Alec Vivier-Reynaud
The next (and final 3 episodes of the year) are all recorded with guests from across the pond: France, the UK and Austria, respectively. ...
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Diana Varma
Oct 30, 20242 min read
215: Collecting & Collaging with Eric Bargenda
If you were anything like me as a teen, cutting and pasting and collaging my walls with 90’s boy bands, colourful products of the day and...
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Diana Varma
Oct 16, 20243 min read
Episode 213: Cultivating Collective Effervescence with Jeff Newberry of Mirvish’s The Lion King in Toronto
“Collective effervescence is the feeling of energy and harmony when people are engaged in a shared purpose. It is a joie de vivre that...
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Diana Varma
Oct 9, 20242 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
Oct 3, 20242 min read
211: Secret Ingredients with Johnny Cupcakes
What do Pumpkin spice, coffins and leprechauns have in common? Johnny Cupcakes, of course! And I have the man himself with me today. Why...
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Diana Varma
Sep 23, 20242 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
Sep 9, 20241 min read
209: Tinker with Allison Mackenzie
Welcome September! I’m thrilled to be starting off this season of creativity, collaboration and making by speaking with fellow...
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Diana Varma
Jun 10, 20246 min read
202: Ungrade Upgrade with Ryan Kough
Experimenting with different types of grading structures has been a hugely important part of my teaching for the last six years. Since...
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Diana Varma
May 23, 20248 min read
200: The End II
Here we are, dear listeners, at episode 200, entitled ’The End II’. I felt it really important to extend past episode 199 in this series...
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Diana Varma
May 22, 20242 min read
199: The End
In their incredible book, Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, authors Elisabeth...
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Diana Varma
May 21, 20243 min read
198: Defining Creative Success
Success is an interesting concept. I’ve found that so much of what we think of as success relates to easy-to-identify, external...
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Diana Varma
May 20, 20242 min read
197: Experiences = Life = Stories
On May 17, 2020, in a post to his Humans of New York Instagram community, founder, Brandon Stanton had this to share about storytelling...
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Diana Varma
May 16, 20244 min read
196: Technology & Storytelling
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in so many fields and disciplines, particularly those that involve creative thinking and creative...
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Diana Varma
May 15, 20242 min read
195: Themes, Motifs, Narratives
Invitation by Shel Silverstein If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hop-er, a pray-er, a magic bean...
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Diana Varma
May 14, 20244 min read
194: The Integration of Storytelling Into Creative Practice
Stories are powerful. Full stop. Stories help us connect our ideas to the world in succinct and memorable ways. Stories help us convey...
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Diana Varma
May 13, 20248 min read
193: Meet the Artists & Designers
What is a story? Who tells stories? Why do we tell stories? When are stories best told? Where are stories told? How are stories told?...
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Diana Varma
May 10, 20241 min read
192: Coming Soon: The Art & Design of Storytelling
Once upon a time there were 9 creatives in 8 episodes answering 7 questions who were spread out over 6 geographic locations resulting in...
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Diana Varma
Apr 30, 20243 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 11, 20242 min read
188: Talk Paper and Exacto Knife with Sarah Nguyen
Something interesting and exciting happened during my last conversation in episode 187 with writer, Phong Nguyen... This is our...
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