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Diana Varma
3 hours ago2 min read
229: Creating as a Designer AND AN Artist with Zach Litoff
Have you ever found yourself straddling the world of art and the world of design, not sure if you should commit fully to one or the...
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Diana Varma
2 days ago2 min read
228: Branding Trends and Trending Brands with Amelia Nash
I had the great pleasure of talking about branding trends and trending brands with the one and only Amelia Nash . Amelia is a...
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Diana Varma
6 days ago3 min read
227: Portfolio Advice You Need to Hear with Robert Smith
Let’s talk portfolios! I’m often asked about portfolio creation, so joining us today to help us navigate building and maintaining a...
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Diana Varma
Feb 132 min read
225: Little Canada, Big Team Effort
Do you ever wonder what your life would be like at a 1:87 ratio of your current scale? I would stand 0.75” tall and my voice would...
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Diana Varma
Feb 102 min read
224: The Signs That Define Toronto with Kurt Kraler
Welcome back after our winter break! Over the coming months, I have an exciting line up of people I’m speaking to about creativity,...
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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
Nov 25, 20243 min read
218: Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!
This episode was recorded a couple of weeks ago, Live from DesignThinkers Toronto 2024, Canada’s largest graphic design conference. This...
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Diana Varma
Nov 18, 20242 min read
217: Designing in the Beauty Industry featuring Ali DuHart of Benefit Cosmetics
Who doesn’t love delightful, interesting and clever, packaging, especially when it contains beautiful cosmetic goodies? In today’s...
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Diana Varma
Nov 8, 20241 min read
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 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 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
Jun 17, 20242 min read
204: Designing Long Documents with Graphic Designer, Yas Fakhr
Welcome to the second of six episodes in this year’s magazine miniseries! If you want to learn more about the magazine industry through...
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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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