095: Olympic Design Systems with Paul Twa
The 24th Winter Olympic Games are underway! Already in these Beijing 2022 games, we’ve seen acts of courage, athleticism and the coming...
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Diana Varma
- May 25, 2021
- 6 min
054: Extra Bold with Ellen Lupton
Today is a special day. It’s not every day that you have the chance to sit down and chat with one of your professional idols. “Ellen...
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Diana Varma
- May 21, 2021
- 5 min
053: The Digital re:Publish Project - New, Near and Next in Digital Publishing
Technology is an incredibly powerful force that shapes virtually every aspect of our lives, from transportation, to healthcare, to...
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Diana Varma
- May 16, 2021
- 5 min
052: The Digital re:Publish Project - What’s Possible In Publishing Through Leveraging Technology
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the digital publishing revolution. From the very first entry into Project...
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Diana Varma
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
051: The Digital re:Publish Project - From Past to Present, 50 Years in the Making
A few months ago I released a mini series of podcast episodes all about digital publishing. In a Charles Dickens-esque fashion we...
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Diana Varma
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
045: ASMR x Talk: Reading Ch.2 The History of Print
In this episode, Diana softly reads Chapter 2: The History of Print from the Introduction to Graphic Communication textbook by Harvey...
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Diana Varma
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
044: Zapfino Arabic with Nadine Chahine: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Zapfino Arabic Release Date: 2014 Designer: Nadine Chahine Classification: Calligraphic Owned By: Linotype Claim to Fame: This...
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Diana Varma
- Apr 10, 2021
- 4 min
043: Freight: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Freight Release Date: 2005 Designers: Joshua Darden and GarageFont Design Classification: Humanist Owned By: Phil’s Fonts Inc....
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Diana Varma
- Apr 5, 2021
- 7 min
042: Gotham: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Gotham Release Date: 2000 Designers: Tobias Frere-Jones Classification: Geometric sans serif Owned By: Hoefler&Co. Claim to Fame:...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
041: We Meet Again, Comic Sans: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Comic Sans Release Date: 1994 Designers: Vincent Connare Classification: Sans serif script Owned By: Microsoft Corporation Claim to...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
040: Wingdings: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Wingdings Release Date: 1990 Designers: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes Classification: Dingbats Owned By: Bigelow & Holmes,...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 10, 2021
- 6 min
039: Papyrus: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Papyrus Release Date: 1982 Designer: Chris Costello Classification: Fantasy Owned By: Letraset Claim to Fame: Used and abused in...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 9, 2021
- 5 min
038: ITC Zapf Chancery: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: ITC Zapf Chancery Release Date: 1979 Designer: Hermann Zapf Classification: Script Owned By: Linotype Claim to Fame: The first and...
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Diana Varma
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
036: Futura: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Futura Release Date: 1927 Designer: Paul Renner Classification: Geometric Sans Serif Owned By: The Bauer Type Foundry Claim to...
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Diana Varma
- Feb 24, 2021
- 8 min
035: Blackletter: An Incomplete History of Type
From type tales to type fails, this is the first in a 10-part series of an incomplete history of type. By exploring the history of type...
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Diana Varma
- Feb 13, 2021
- 15 min
032: Digital Publishing's Past
Like Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, whose past, present and future spirits arrive on Christmas Eve to show him a...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 30, 2020
- 6 min
024: Saving the World, One Typeface at a Time
Some typefaces are designed to be legible, others to be beautiful, others to be odd, eccentric and quirky. But some typefaces are...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 22, 2020
- 8 min
023: Typecast
From The Great Gatsby, to Monsters, Inc., to The Godfather, typography has a significant role to play in film. From typefaces on movie...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 15, 2020
- 9 min
022: Epic Ampersand
The ampersand (you know, the ‘and’ symbol) might be my absolute favourite glyph. Ampersands are expressive, they’re classic, they’re...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 7, 2020
- 15 min
019: Toronto Typography: Sports Edition
We’ve got the Leafs, we’ve got the Jays, we’ve got the Toronto FC, and we’ve got the Raptors. Today we’re talking Toronto sports... with...
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