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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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Design students and design educators — this episode is for YOU! We have Mitch Goldstein, educator and author of How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them), here to share some powerful thoughts and actionable advice.
In this conversation, you’ll hear Mitch’s approach to being “professionally curious” and the difference between “education” and “professional practi...
Today’s conversation is out of this world with Thalia Patrinos who works at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. She is the Artemis Digital Lead within the Office of Communications. She leads and strategizes all digital communications about NASA’s Artemis missions to and around the Moon, including social media, video, audio, web presence, and digital engagements.
In this conversation, you’ll hear Th...
Welcome, dear friends, to The Library Loiterers.
Each episode finds Diana loitering in a library with a special guest in a library location of theirchoosing. We comb the stacks and have a chat about passions, practices, and possibilities—letting the story unfold as it will. You’re encouraged to read between the lines because it’s going to be a real page turner…
This episode features type...
Meet emerging typeface designers, Juliette Bifolchi and Jasmin Gulati! Juliette designed a typeface called Road Block and Jasmin designed a typeface called Invertia. 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), as well as what was easy and difficult about the process. Let ...
Today’s conversation is with Sara Soskolne, Executive Creative Director at Monotype, sharing her 20-year history of working on one of the world’s most recognizable typefaces: Gotham.
In this conversation, Sara shares her recent contributions to Gotham, working directly with the Obama Foundation for the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago. She gets delightfully technical about Gotham...
Today’s guest is Elliot Jay Stocks, designer and author, known in typographic circles for his work as the co-creator of Google Fonts Knowledge, founder of 8 Faces magazine, and creative director of Typekit (now known as Adobe Fonts).
In this conversation, you’ll hear why Elliot wanted to make his new book (Fine Specimens) and what it contains. You’ll hear just how small the type design world a...
This is the third episode in a 4-part guest lecture series, speaking with an incredible range of design and typography pros from across North America!
In this eye opening look into the history of typography, signage, protest, and histories, Tré Seals thoughtfully explains the ways in which type has caused a lot of harm to various communities, but the ways in which it’s also a hopeful gateway to make meani...
This is the second episode in a 4-part guest lecture series, speaking with an incredible range of design and typography pros from across North America!
This episode features 2 of the 3 authors of the First Things First 2020 manifesto, Marc O’Brien and Benjamin Gaydos. (Namita Dharia couldn’t join us but we hope to catch her in conversation again soon!)
In this conversation you’ll hear the...
This is the first episode in a 4-part guest lecture series, speaking with an incredible range of design and typography pros from across North America!
This episode features type designer and founder of OH no Type Co., James Edmondson.
In this conversation you’ll hear James’ typography origin story (he’s still an 8-year-old at heart!), how he uses “Pen Logic” to help construct system...
Welcome, dear friends, to The Library Loiterers.
Each episode finds Diana loitering in a library with a special guest in a library location of theirchoosing. We comb the stacks and have a chat about passions, practices, and possibilities—letting the story unfold as it will. You’re encouraged to read between the lines because it’s going to be a real page turner…
This episode features impr...
It’s a high school experience like no other — Welcome to Oasis Skateboard Factory in Toronto, Canada where students make, design, and sell custom boards for real clients all while receiving high school credits.
This alternative school flips the script on what it means to learn and teach in high school, removing artificial boundaries between “school” and “the outside world”. T...
Today’s guest is registered psychotherapist and author, Kate Robson, exploring her new book, Something to Hold Onto: Simple Images, Metaphors, and Practical Tools to Transform Your Life.
Her book is an incredible resource where she shares her ideas about complex human problems through a therapeutic lens to help make challenging moments a little less challenging. You’ll hear about the power of metaphor, th...
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 has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 6!)
This episode is guest hosted by Jordan Grey.
Name: Clarendon
Release Date: 1845
Designer: Robert Besley
Classification: Slab Serif (Egyptian)
Owned By: Today its multiple versions are owned by multiple foundries.
Claim to...
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 has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 6!)
This episode is guest hosted by Sheilae Siagian.
Name: San Francisco
Release Date: 2014
Designer: Apple’s Team (based on Helvetica and FF DIN)
Classification: Neo-Grotesque Sans Serif
Owned By: Apple
Claim to Fame: ...
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 has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 6!)
This episode is guest hosted by Sol Riquero.
Name: Verdana
Release Date: 1996
Designer: Matthew Carter and Thomas Rickner
Classification: Humanist Sans Serif
Owned By: Microsoft
Claim to Fame: A typeface that was designed...
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 has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 6!)
This episode is guest hosted by Lilly Clements.
Name: Garamond
Release Date: Mid 16th Century
Designer: Claude Garamond
Classification: Old Style Serif Typeface
Owned By: Not owned by one single person, but digital varia...
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 has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 6!)
This episode is guest hosted by Emma Pereira.
Name: Calibri
Release Date: 2007
Designer: Lucas de Groot
Classification: Sans Serif
Owned By: Microsoft Corporation
Claim to Fame: Calibri made history by dethroning Times Ne...
Meet our guest, Marci Stepak, who grew up using Toronto public libraries in the late 1970s and early 80s. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Marci’s journey, walking 300 km to visit all 100 Toronto Public Library branches on foot over 10 days. She’s calling it Every Library TO and the walk starts today, April 7, 2026. This walk is both a tribute to her Mom (today marks 1 year of her passing) a...
Lights! Microphone! Podcast -- Episode 6
How do you wrap up a massive, semester-long creative project? Join Instructor Diana, alongside student hosts Shana and Alex, for the MDM class's final reflection and listening party. This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the creative journey, covering everything the students learned about audience, structure, and distribution while launching their first podcasts.
The conv...
Lights! Microphone! Podcast -- Episode 5
What happens when your audience demands a language shift? Multilingual creator Winnie Liao joins host Alex to discuss the reality of launching a content project outside the default English market. Winnie shares the unexpected journey of her show, which started in Mandarin in Taiwan and quickly grew into a bilingual platform driven by listeners who wanted to learn English.
Winni...
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