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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
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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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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
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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
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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...
Diana Varma
Mar 27, 20244 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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 6, 20242 min read
33 views
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 28, 20242 min read
32 views
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
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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
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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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172: Stories on Stories on Stories with Raymond Biesinger
Today I share a story about stories within stories pertaining to the illustration and written work of my guest, Raymond Biesinger....
Diana Varma
Feb 1, 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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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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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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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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