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Diana Varma
Jun 14, 20242 min read
203: Setting Magazine Precedent with Daniel Fish, Editor of Precedent Magazine
It’s the most wonderful time of the yearrrrrr! It’s that time again for a magazine miniseries! With six episodes released over the next...
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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
May 3, 20242 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 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 17, 20242 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 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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Diana Varma
Apr 9, 20242 min read
187: Exceptionally Experimental, Eclectic and Expressive Exercises with Phong Nguyen
What if you removed a letter from your keyboard? How might that impact your work? Maybe you could remove a tilda key (the squiggle beside...
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Diana Varma
Apr 4, 20243 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 3, 20241 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 27, 20244 min read
184: The 96-Layer Screen Print With Heather J.A. Thomson
In the world of commercial offset printing that I know and love, we most often print with 4-colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black...
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Diana Varma
Mar 13, 20246 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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