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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...

Diana Varma
May 22, 20242 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
May 21, 20243 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
May 20, 20242 min read
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196: Technology & Storytelling
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in so many fields and disciplines, particularly those that involve creative thinking and creative...

Diana Varma
May 16, 20244 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
May 15, 20242 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
May 14, 20244 min read
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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?...

Diana Varma
May 13, 20248 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
May 10, 20241 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
Apr 11, 20242 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
Apr 9, 20242 min read
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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...

Diana Varma
Dec 15, 20232 min read
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165: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and The Pile of Bricks
Next on our journey hearing from those in industry who make space for others through community-building, we have the living print legend,...

Diana Varma
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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161: Inspiration 2.0 Featuring MDM 13.0
Inspiration is a mysterious, elusive and perhaps even divine interconnectedness between everyone and everything. Communication, both...

Diana Varma
Nov 7, 20236 min read
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148: Art Meets Science for Better Tomorrows with Camilo Saenz and Kristin Lewis
Let's do a quick association test. What pairs best with the following? Salt and... pepper! Peanut butter and... jam! Macaroni and......

Diana Varma
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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147: Live From Podcamp 2023: Break All the Rules
It was a really neat experience getting to speak at PodCamp 2023. I respect this small-in-size, large-in-stature, annual meeting of the...

Diana Varma
Jun 6, 20233 min read
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143: Brand New: Meg!
I am thrilled to introduce our guest in today’s episode: It’s Meg! Meg Lewis is a designer, illustrator, artist and all-around creative....

Diana Varma
May 10, 20232 min read
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140: Put Me In The Zoo (Part 2!)
My Dad’s favourite creative medium was audio. I have memories of my Dad pulling out blueprints, explaining a schematic of a sound system...

Diana Varma
Apr 6, 20231 min read
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136: Book BIG MAGIC
Serendipity [noun]: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Chance, fluke, luck. There is an...

Diana Varma
Jan 24, 202310 min read
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135: Gratitude and Failure
As the calendar turns its final page in 2022 and I settle in for a long winter’s nap, it’s fun to look back at some of the Talk Paper...

Diana Varma
Dec 15, 20223 min read
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133: Inspiration Framework: Time to ACE It
This is the third and final episode in the series all about inspiration. Here I will share with you my thoughts on the topic of...

Diana Varma
Dec 12, 20228 min read
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