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173: Work and Play and Play and Work with Ryan Kough
I’m thrilled to introduce my guest today, Ryan Kough, who believes in design as a community-building tool creating partnerships between...
Diana Varma
Feb 14, 20242 min read
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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
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168: Micro + Macro Calendars with Phoebe Todd-Parrish and Ana Rita Morais
We are 23 days away from 2024 and with me today are two fantastic Toronto-based makers with calendars for us to enjoy all 366 days of the...
Diana Varma
Dec 8, 20233 min read
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167: Canada's Home for Graphic Designers with RGD's Hilary Ashworth and Nicola Hamilton
The final stop on our journey hearing from those in industry who make space for others through community-building, we have the...
Diana Varma
Dec 5, 20232 min read
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166: Living the Goodtype with Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo
Next on our journey hearing from those in industry who make space for others through community-building, we have Katie Johnson and Ilana...
Diana Varma
Dec 1, 20232 min read
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162: Print Isn’t Dead with People of Print’s Marcroy Smith
I recently had the pleasure of joining 2100 other creatives at Canada’s largest design conference, DesignThinkers Toronto 2023. In a...
Diana Varma
Nov 20, 20233 min read
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160: Celebrated Book Design with Coralie Bickford-Smith
I have a special episode for you today! In this conversation, you’ll hear from the iconic illustrator, storyteller, designer and Book...
Diana Varma
Oct 26, 20232 min read
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156: Untapped Typographic Potential with Oliver of Pimp My Type
Oliver of Pimp My Type is back and he’s here to talk untapped typographic potential! In this conversation, Oliver explains what...
Diana Varma
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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149: Micro Trends in Magazine Publishing with Nicola Hamilton of Issues
It’s that time of year again: magazines, magazines, magazines! I’m thrilled to bring you 6 new episodes recorded over two semesters with...
Diana Varma
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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146: Emerging Typeface Designers Nicole Galindo & Cameron Mady
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 30, 20232 min read
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145: Brand New: Identity Design for Medieval Torture Devices with Parcel
This is the final episode in the Brand New series where you’ll hear from Richard Nalli-Petta of Parcel in Toronto chat about his work for...
Diana Varma
May 17, 20232 min read
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144: Brand New: Design for Social Good with Loop
Welcome to the second episode in our Brand New series all about brand identity design. Today’s episode features the passionate and...
Diana Varma
May 15, 20232 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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142: Aurelie Maron, Lettering Artist
This year’s Advanced Typography class at Toronto Metropolitan University had the chance to chat with talented lettering artist and...
Diana Varma
Apr 28, 20232 min read
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141: Jorge Gomez of The Money Studio
This year’s Advanced Typography class at Toronto Metropolitan University had the chance to sit down with two talented voices in type, the...
Diana Varma
Apr 19, 20231 min read
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120: Mags 2022: Designing Magazines with Lonelle Selbo of LIFE AU LAIT
Meet Lonelle Selbo, publisher and designer of LIFE AU LAIT Magazine, a digital publication serving Prince Edward County (PEC), Ontario,...
Diana Varma
Jun 23, 20222 min read
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118: Big Emotions in Creative Living with Lisa Anchin, Picture Book Author & Artist
In this last episode of this three-part miniseries all about big emotions in creative living, I sit down with Lisa Anchin, children’s...
Diana Varma
Jun 21, 20223 min read
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117: Big Emotions in Creative Living with Jamie Roberts of Rock That Creative Job
Continuing our discussion of big emotions in creative living, today I am joined by entrepreneur Jaime Roberts of Rock That Creative Job....
Diana Varma
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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115: Font Futures: Indigenous Syllabic Type Revitalization with Kevin King
I love and admire the work produced by the folks at The Weekly Typographic podcast. Their weekly emails are one of the few emails I...
Diana Varma
Jun 16, 20224 min read
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112: The Little Friends of Printmaking!
I first learned about The Little Friends of Printmaking through one of their many awesome process videos that they share online. The duo...
Diana Varma
Jun 3, 20222 min read
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