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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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Hello, Print Friend is a podcast dedicated to the celebration and amplification of contemporary printmaking and its culture. Releasing interviews every week with artists, activists, curators, and print champions, we explore what it is that brings together this passionate, yet often geographically separated community, across a press bed and around the world. [formally known as pine|copper|lime]
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Maybe you're thinking here's another podcast. There's a lot of them out there but for the most part, when they have a guest is usually someone famous or successful. So, I wanted to give a voice to smaller creators, to share their stories, thoughts, and work. I want to sit down with them and talk about their process to get to their dreams and what struggles they are facing.
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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 t…
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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 bey…
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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…
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En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) estará conversando con Pleyadiano (@pca333): artista gráfico del cartel y activista colombiano miembro fundador del movimiento “Fogueo Cartelero”. Pleyadiano junto a Fungitivo usan la calle como espacio de discusión y colaboración creando instalaciones urbanas de gráfica de gran formato con imágenes de la…
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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 shifti…
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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…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Amanda Outcalt. Amanda is a mixed-media artist who combines etching, embroidery, pencil drawing, painting, and gold leafing. They talk about her journey from jewelry making to precise cut plate etchings, using animals as deeply personal metaphors, and being an artist who sells her work herself, online and in person.Am…
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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 Printing Improv for Innovators Friends with Failure Custom Speaki…
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En el episodio de hoy, Reinaldo (@rgzprints) habla con Ernesto Yerena (@ernestoyerena), un artista y activista radicado en Los Ángeles. Hablaremos sobre la increíble pasión de Ernesto por la serigrafía, la creación de íconos y el activismo político, su introducción al mundo del arte al ver a su padre y su abuelo pintar auto, el conocer a César Cháv…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Ernesto Yerena, an artist and activist based in Los Angeles. They talk about Ernesto's incredible passion for screen printing and political activism, his introduction to the art world by watching his father and grandfather paint cars, Caesar Chavez’s relationships to printmaking, and hanging out with Lily Gladstone. C…
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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 @nanoshades Drag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabella Visual Note Taker @inkfactorystudio Brand Identity Designer @carla.palette Singer-Songwriter-Produc…
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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 @nanoshades Drag Artist & Professor …
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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 @nanoshades Dr…
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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 @nanoshades…
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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 serie…
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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 @nanoshades Drag Artist & Professor of Creativi…
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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 @nanoshades Drag Artist & Professor of Creativi…
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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 @nanoshades Drag Artist & Professor of Creativity @guy.anabella Visual Note Taker @inkfactorystudio Brand Identity Designer @carl…
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This week Miranda speaks with Shepard Fairey. Shepard is an internationally renowned artist known for his iconic graphic works, which combine aesthetics with politics in endlessly innovative ways. They talk about how the medium of printmaking affected his artistic development, his conscious effort to use his platform to disseminate accurate informa…
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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 i…
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En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) estará conversando con Cesar García (@zuaycreatex). Artista plástico dedicándose a la elaboración de grafica protesta en San Bernandino, California. Cesar se define como oaxaqueño, luego de vivir su infancia en una comunidad de la región donde tuvo sus primeros encuentros con la gráfica gracias a su padre…
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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…
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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 Fon…
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This week Miranda speaks with John Dodelande and Diana Wiegersma from LITO Editions. LITO Editions is based in Bregenz, Austria, and uses a new technology to create prints with extreme precision and relief effects. They talk about how the technology came to be used in a collaborative printmaking process and how contemporary artists are working with…
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If you've ever wondered how to make your creative skills pay the bills, you're in the right place. In today's episode, we're diving deep with the incredible Angelo Konofaos to uncover the secrets of generating passive income as a YouTube designer. 🎧Podcast: https://www.chrisellinas.com/podcast 🔗All my links: https://www.chrisellinas.com/links…
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This week Miranda speaks with Diana Varma, the host of the wonderful podcast "Talk Paper Scissors." They talk about how print is most certainly not dead, how we learned what was cool before the internet, form verse function in typography, and Pantone Barbie.Talk Paper Scissors websitehttps://www.talkpaperscissors.info/Talk Paper Scissors Instagram …
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Today’s guest is the best designer in the world! [Source: his website, TheBestDesignerInTheWorld.com] Harbor Bickmore is a graphic designer and type designer, selling his work under That That Type. In this conversation you’ll hear why Harbor got into typeface design and his process for creating typefaces. You’ll hear about Harbor’s favourite typefa…
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In this episode you’ll hear artist Sarah Nguyen’s multi-hyphenated career and her role as a life-long learner. Sarah shares the deepest and most delicious answer to ‘why paper?’ ever articulated in 188 episodes of this podcast. You’ll hear about the stories woven within Sarah’s paper cut artworks, which can be up to 20 feet long, as well as the det…
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In this episode you’ll hear author Phong Nguyen’s playful approach to his work that harnesses ‘beginner mind’. You’ll learn more about Phong’s 4th book, ROUNDABOUT: An Improvisational Fiction that has a clever narrative, fascinating process and incredible constraints… there are no letter e’s found within the 60,000 word book! (More accurately, ther…
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Ever wondered how to break free from self-doubt and unleash your full creative potential? Well, Diana Varma, writer, educator, and podcaster extraordinaire, shares her invaluable insights on this very topic. From her humble beginnings in the printing industry to her current role as a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, Diana's journey is n…
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En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) estará conversando con Daniel Amora Mora (@taller64press) artista plástico y fundador del taller 64 en Baja California, México. Daniel encontró su pasión por la gráfica en la universidad donde el ambiente del taller de impresión le ofreció un lugar de intercambio de ideas, interacción y crecimiento. Al vo…
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There are few things more typographically satisfying than recognizing type in the wild. Gotham over here, Futura over there, Helvetica everywhere! Perhaps the only thing more satisfying is sitting down for a hearty conversation about letterforms with a fellow type geek. Pan to my conversation with Jeremy Gladstone, owner and founder of Gladstone Me…
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This week Miranda speaks with Hannah O'Brien. They talk about day-to-day life on her sailboat, Phoenix, and printing is a small, moving space, with a curious kitty as first mate. They also discuss the complexity of caring deeply about sustainability while having a commercial art practice, going viral on Instagram, and so much more.Hannah on Instagr…
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In this episode, you’ll meet designer and illustrator, Ben O’Neil, who worked for 70 days to create a typeface based on visual prompts from images online to create an alphabet of whimsical and wonderful letterforms. You’ll hear Ben discuss this project (called ‘Type Alike’), including his thoughts on creative constraint, as well as creative consist…
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This episode features printmaker, Heather J.A. Thomson, who has created an incredible 96-layer screen printed work that took 1 year with a grand total of 8 (!) copies existing in the world. During this discussion, you’ll learn about Heather, her love of history and printmaking, as well as the specific process for her epic 96-layer screen printing p…
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This episode is all about my favourite practice for living a connected creative life: informational interviewing. This episode will help you better understand what informational interviews are and how they can help creative people find one another to build authentic connections. This episode pairs well with the actionable next steps found within my…
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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 4!) This episode is guest hosted by Kennedy Thornton. Name: Arial Release Date: 1982 Designers: Robin Nicholas Classification: Neo Grotesque Sans Ser…
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This week Miranda speaks with Courtney Treglia. They talk about Courtney's experience working at the print studio at Columbia Teachers College in New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, trauma, grief, and how print and poetry can guide us through.Courtney's websitehttps://www.courtneytreglia.com/Courtney on Instagramhttps://www.in…
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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 4!) This episode is guest hosted by Mandy Lu. Name: Myriad Release Date: 1992 Designers: Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly Classification: Humanist, …
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