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 182 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 81 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 302 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 92 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 172 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 106 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 238 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 222 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 213 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 202 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 164 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 152 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 144 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 138 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 101 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 303 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 172 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 43 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 31 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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