Talk Paper Scissors

Diana Varma
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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. 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.

  1. Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!

    1 DAY AGO

    Live From DesignThinkers Toronto with Carl Shura!

    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...

    1 hr
  2. Designing in the Beauty Industry featuring Ali DuHart of Benefit Cosmetics

    18 NOV

    Designing in the Beauty Industry featuring Ali DuHart of Benefit Cosmetics

    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 th...

    31 min
  3. Barns, Gumbo and Scriptoriums with Type Designer, Matthijs Herzberg

    8 NOV

    Barns, Gumbo and Scriptoriums with Type Designer, Matthijs Herzberg

    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 fun...

    33 min
  4. Collecting & Collaging with Eric Bargenda

    30 OCT

    Collecting & Collaging with Eric Bargenda

    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 feed...

    46 min
  5. Sprinting Through Setbacks with Olympian Micha Powell

    22 OCT

    Sprinting Through Setbacks with Olympian Micha Powell

    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 i...

    56 min
  6. Cultivating Collective Effervescence with Jeff Newberry of Mirvish’s The Lion King in Toronto

    16 OCT

    Cultivating Collective Effervescence with Jeff Newberry of Mirvish’s The Lion King in Toronto

    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 l...

    45 min
  7. Type Talk with Peter Ha

    9 OCT

    Type Talk with Peter Ha

    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 variet...

    30 min
  8. Secret Ingredients with Johnny Cupcakes

    3 OCT

    Secret Ingredients with Johnny Cupcakes

    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 entrepreneuri...

    49 min
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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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  • Creator
    Diana Varma
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    219
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Talk Paper Scissors
  • Show Website
    Talk Paper Scissors

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