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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...

Diana Varma
Nov 8, 20241 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...

Diana Varma
Oct 9, 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...

Diana Varma
Sep 23, 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...

Diana Varma
May 3, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Apr 30, 20243 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...

Diana Varma
Apr 17, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Apr 4, 20243 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,...

Diana Varma
Apr 3, 20241 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 15, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 14, 20244 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 13, 20246 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 11, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 8, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Mar 5, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Feb 27, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Feb 24, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Feb 21, 20242 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...

Diana Varma
Dec 15, 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...

Diana Varma
Dec 13, 20232 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...

Diana Varma
Dec 12, 20233 min read
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