Talk Paper Scissors

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jess Goldsmith, founder of Women of Type ! In this episode, you’ll hear about Jess’ role in the world of type, including the community she’s created, uplifting and amplifying the work of women and non-binary artists in the typography and lettering industry.  You'll also hear about recent features that Jess is jazzed about and ways to get featured on the...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 person The idea that letterforms are just ‘blobs with defects’ How Carl worked backwards from a few le...

Send us Fan Mail 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/eve...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 surprisin...

Send us Fan Mail 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 s...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Tinker...

Send us Fan Mail 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],...

Send us Fan Mail 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 creativit...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 g...

Send us Fan Mail 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 public...

Send us Fan Mail 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 e...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Speaking + Workshops Here’s to the ne...

Send us Fan Mail 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-Producer @barbralica Visual Artist...

Send us Fan Mail 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 of Creativity @guy.anabella...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Drag Artist & Professor of Cre...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Drag Artist & Professor of...

Send us Fan Mail 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 w...