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Join host, Diana Varma, as she explores the wonderful world of design and printing, typography and branding, books and publishing. In each episode Diana aims to answer many age-old, deep philosophical questions such as: Where the heck did Comic Sans originate? Why do the majority of printed books have blank pages at the end? What is the world's ugliest colour? What does a sassy three-year-old have to say about the visible colour spectrum? Ready to have some fun? Let's talk paper scissors.
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In this first episode back after the summer break, you’ll hear from multidisciplinary creative and community-builder, Allison MacKenzie about her brainchild called Tinker*.You’ll hear about the ways that it’s an interdisciplinary, iterative, low-stakes and high community environment. We talk about imperfection, vulneratibility and experimentation and Ally shares stories of Tinkerers in action. We get into the traps of social media and Ally’s big goals for the space.Finally, we end with a disc...
This is the sixth episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet Immersive Technology Specialist, Michael Carter-Arlt.In this conversation, you’ll hear the ways in which Michael’s print background informs his work in immersive technologies and the bridging of these two worlds. You’ll hear about XR technologies (including the differences between Augmented Reality [AR], Virtual Reality [VR] and Mixed Reality [MR]). Finally you’ll learn more about the specific ways that Michael envis...
This is the fifth episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet Creative Director and zine designer publisher, Dominic Ayre. The conversation focusses around a single question (“What is Do Not Xray zine?”) and Dom takes us on a wonderfully passionate and techno-filled deep dive about his upbringing, early hip-hop, and graffiti leading to his current space of creativity, professional publications and zine culture. Music lovers, typography lovers, zine lovers… this episode is for y...
This is the fourth episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet award-winning journalist, author and educator, Angela Misri. You’ll hear about Angela’s career path in different media spaces: in print, in audio and on the web. You’ll hear specific examples related to telling stories in added value ways; the why and the how of telling the same story differently across mediums.You’ll also hear about the shifts that Angela’s seen in the last 20 years in publishing industry, and what...
This is the third episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet digital reading expert, Alyssa Andino. you’ll learn more about what Alyssa’s role entails and more about digital reading experiences, including what works and what doesn’t work. You’ll learn about the ways that Alyssa and her team are thinking of the reading experience beyond fonts (size, style and colour).You’ll hear tips for using Adobe InDesign effectively to consider both the print experience and the digital read...
This is the second episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet graphic designer, Yas Fakhr. You’ll hear Yas’ process for creating long documents and the very best book design and printing geekery between she and Diana. You’ll hear Yas’ advice for what new designers should consider at various stages in the long document design process. You’ll learn Yas’ thoughts on grids, including when to make them and when to break them, as well as what’s on Yas’ Adobe InDesign wish list. Fina...
This is the first episode in a 6-part magazine mini series. Here you’ll meet Daniel Fish, Editor of Precedent, a career and lifestyle magazine for lawyers. In this conversation, you’ll learn about Precedent, including the journey that Daniel and his team embark on with each issue, including a discussion of Daniel’s ‘print brain’ and how he’s shifting gears to a fully-online publication.You’ll hear what it’s really like to be an Editor and how it’s similar and different from the way magazine E...
Today’s guest is Ryan Kough, a neurodivergent artist and design educator who focuses on participatory community-driven design initiatives. She is an avid ungrading advocate and in this discussion, she and Diana share their experiences and reasons why they believe ungrading is an amazing framework for a diverse group of learners. The two discuss the magic of student agency, true experiential learning and facilitating opportunities that shape the students and the educators who participate....
In this episode, Diana shares an exciting new initiative that she’s adding to the Talk Paper Scissors space.Introducing PopUp Workshop: Where creative work meets play! ✨You’ll hear about 4 workshops that can be facilitated both in-person and virtually, locally and globally. Playful PrintingImprov for InnovatorsFriends with FailureCustom Speaking + WorkshopsHere’s to the next 200 episodes and brand new in-person workshops! I'm all about interesting projects with interesting people! L...
In this final episode in the series, Diana reflects on 9 different responses to 7 questions about storytelling through art and design, discussing 3 emergent themes.3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-Producer @barbralicaVisual Artist & Writer @britchidaTattoo Artist @soot.tattoo Author & Teacher @recessmagicBreathwork Facilitator & Wri...
Q: At the end of your life, what story do you hope others tell about you?🎙️ In this episode, you’ll hear some universal truths about life and living from a book written by experts on death and dying, as well as what story each of the 9 creative minds in this series hopes is told about them:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-Producer @barbra...
Q: How do you measure the success of a narrative-driven project, and how has your definition of success evolved over the course of your career? 🎙️ In this episode, you’ll learn about Diana’s unlearning of traditional measures of success and hear about measures of success from the 9 creative minds in this series:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-...
Q: How has the evolution of your own life experiences impacted the stories you choose to tell through your artistic endeavours? 🎙️ In this episode, we’ll touch on the success of the deeply-moving, Humans of New York, as well as hear from the 9 creative minds in this series about their own moments of transformation:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwrit...
Q: Can you discuss the intersection of technology and storytelling in your field, and how advancements may influence the way you approach narrative in your projects?🎙️ In this episode, we’ll dive into artificial intelligence and creativity, as well as the specific technologies (both low-tech and hi-tech) that help the 9 creative minds in this series create and disseminate their work:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker ...
Q: Are there specific themes or motifs that consistently appear in your work, and if so, how do they contribute to the overall narrative you're trying to convey?🎙️ In this episode, we’ll hear about the specific themes and big ideas explored by the 9 creative minds in this series:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-Producer @barbralicaVisual Artist...
Q: How do you integrate storytelling into your creative practice, and what role does it play in shaping your vision?🎙️ In this episode, we’ll consider the power of stories, explore ‘hard truths’ about storytelling and hear how the 9 creative minds in this series use storytelling:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-Producer @barbralicaVisual Artist...
Q: What is your story?🎙️ In this foundational episode, we’ll define ‘story’, explore the importance of centring one’s audience in the act of storytelling and meet the 9 creative minds in the series:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactorystudioBrand Identity Designer @carla.paletteSinger-Songwriter-Producer @barbralicaVisual Artist & Writer @britchidaTattoo Artist @soot.tattoo Author & Teacher @rece...
Once upon a time there were 9 creatives in 8 episodes answering 7 questions who were spread out over 6 geographic locations resulting in many virtual high 5’s because there were 4 hours of conversations with 3 themes emerging released over 2 weeks as 1 large, interconnected story. This is the Art and Design of Storytelling. This series features 9 incredible creatives:3D Environment Artist @nanoshadesDrag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabellaVisual Note Taker @inkfactory...
Meet emerging typeface designers, Max Berardi and Cecilia Ly! Max designed a typeface called League Gothic and Cecilia designed a typeface called Verre Fondu and in the following conversation, you'll get to hear about each typeface. You'll also hear their perfect type pairings, sensory descriptions of each (sight, smell, touch, sound and even taste), what was easy and difficult about the process, including what they’d do differently next time. Let the type geekery begin! I'm all about in...
Today's guest is Franz Hoffman, designer-turned-entrepreneur and cofounder of Fontself, which brings easy type-making capabilities into the hands of all creatives.In this conversation you’ll learn why Fontself was created and more about Fontself as a tool and its evolution, hearing about some interesting projects from around the globe with the Fontself toolset at their centre. Experimentation, iteration and democratization are all themes explored throughout the following 40 minutes. This epis...
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