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Talk Paper Scissors

Join host, Diana Varma, as she explores the wonderful world of design and printing, typography and branding, books and publishing. Diana loves nothing more than getting creative with Creatives about all things creative. Ready to have some fun? Let"s Talk Paper Scissors!

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34:22

Expanding Raleway to Support Accessible Tech with...

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2024/12/02

This episode features a conversation with Toronto-based designer, developer and accessibility specialist, Michael Young. His graduate level research involves making technology more accessible, specifically through the expansion of Raleway; an open source Google font used in communications by the Ontario Government.In this episode you’ll hear more about Michael’s gateway into this work, hear about the Syllabic writing system, and what Unicode is in plain language. You’ll hear what it was like for

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60:00

Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!

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2024/11/25

This episode features an in-person conversation at Canada’s largest graphic design conference with type aficionado, Carl Shura! In this episode you’ll hear LOTS of excellent type geekery, such as: The history of the typeface Cooper Black and the ways it’s connected to Carl as a personThe idea that letterforms are just ‘blobs with defects’How Carl worked backwards from a few letters to reconstruct an iconic Toronto building signHow to approach the development of a revival typefaceThe ways that tools

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30:50

Designing in the Beauty Industry featuring Ali DuHart...

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2024/11/18

In today’s episode, I have Ali DuHart, a Senior Graphic Designer at Benefit Cosmetics where she’s worked for the last 8 years. You’ll hear about Ali’s role at Benefit Cosmetics including visual merchandising: what it is and how it comes together.We get into some specifics around prototyping for print, the importance of understanding different audiences in different situations/events, and we talk about balancing brand identity with trendiness, and specifically how Benefit Cosmetics achieves this. Ali

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32:41

Barns, Gumbo and Scriptoriums with Type Designer,...

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2024/11/08

The Herzberg Design Co is a New Orleans based studio specializing in type design, brand identity, art direction, and everything related to letters; it’s a one-man operation founded by Dutchman Matthijs Herzberg. He focuses on unconventional and exuberant work, but always with a sharp eye for detail, quality, and purpose (as such, combining the best of New Orleans with the best of The Netherlands).In this episode, you’ll hear why Matthijs loves letters, an analogy about type designers that

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45:53

Collecting & Collaging with Eric Bargenda

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2024/10/30

This episode is all about collage! Eric Bargenda is seasoned design director who has taken his love for graphic design, ephemera and all things vintage and applied it to the art of analog collage. In this episode, you’ll better understand the ways in which collage is a natural extension of graphic design, you’ll hear Eric describe his collage process and learn about the surprising way community and collaboration has popped into Eric’s artistic work.We talk about the power of getting feedback,

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55:31

Sprinting Through Setbacks with Olympian Micha Powell

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2024/10/22

In this episode, you’ll hear world-class Canadian Olympic sprinter and Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Micha Powell, share the process for writing and publishing her book, Sprinting Through Setbacks, and the important lessons she’s learned in the process.You’ll hear her inspiring story that changed the trajectory of her track career. Micha speaks about self doubt and imposter syndrome, the ways in which they’ve shown up in her athletic journey. How writing can be a time machine and we get into why

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45:04

Cultivating Collective Effervescence with Jeff...

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2024/10/16

This episode features a conversation with Jeff Newberry, a music director, composer, arranger, sound designer, and educator working in theatre, concert, and community spaces. For Mirvish, Jeff is the associate music director of Disney’s The Lion King in Toronto. (Opening night is November 2!)In this conversation, Jeff describes his vision of strong creative leadership — a leader who isn’t afraid to feel stuck, can embrace silence and scrap a plan when needed. We talk about the importance of learning

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30:09

Type Talk with Peter Ha

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2024/10/09

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 design practice, whose process is founded on curiosity and finding the joy and playfulness in every project. In this conversation, you'll hear why Peter loves type, including some different professional and passion projects that put type in the spotlight. Peter seamlessly transitions from coding to working with wood on type and back again, using a variety of

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49:07

Secret Ingredients with Johnny Cupcakes

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2024/10/03

Why do thousands of people have Johnny Cupcakes' logos tattooed on their bodies? And why have thousands of people camped out for Johnny's special edition T-shirts? In this conversation, you’ll learn about the secret ingredients to Johnny Cupcakes’ success: surprise and delight. You'll hear how he’s been able to stretch a traditional marketing budget using these key ingredients and SO MUCH MORE, including:How Johnny’s printing internship helped inform his brand todayJohnny's

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35:24

Play, Passion Projects and Butts with Sophie Elinor...

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2024/09/23

Welcome to a fun deep dive into typography, play, passion projects and butts, with self-proclaimed Type Dork, Sophie Elinor Brown!In this conversation, you’ll hear the ways in which Sophie weaves humour and silliness in her work, the tools she uses, curiosity’s role in resourcefulness and continuous learning and the ways in which doing work both for large, global clients as well as for smaller, local clients can be exciting in their own right.Check out the visuals discussed in this episode at

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30:16

Tinker with Allison Mackenzie

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2024/09/09

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 discussion

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47:39

XR Possibilities in Publishing with Immersive...

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2024/06/25

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 envisions

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69:05

Techno, Type, Zines and Chaos with Dominic Ayre

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2024/06/23

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

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52:12

Sharing Stories in All Shapes and Sizes (Books,...

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2024/06/21

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 parts

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41:57

Digital Reading Experiences with Alyssa Andino of...

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2024/06/19

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 reading

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50:24

Designing Long Documents with Graphic Designer, Yas...

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2024/06/17

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. Finally, we

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50:41

Setting Magazine Precedent with Daniel Fish, Editor...

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2024/06/14

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

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77:15

Ungrade Upgrade with Ryan Kough

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2024/06/10

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. Ryan shares

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8:50

PopUp Workshop!

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2024/06/05

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! Let's

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15:30

The End II

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2024/05/23

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 & Writer

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