Talk Paper Scissors

This episode features Nat Lumby, Jay Wong and Chris Ambedkar who all teach in the same undergraduate program as Diana... and they all happen to be award winning university lecturers! Four colleagues and friends reflect on a year of virtual teaching, including what worked really well, what surprised them (for better or for worse) and what the future of virtual education might look like. You’ll hear the words ‘flexibility’, ‘community-building’ and ‘balance’ a number of times. You’ll also hear their thoughts on breakout rooms, their video conferencing software feature wish list, as well as how ‘edutainment’ has a bad rap and why that needs to change. 

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In this first episode of a 5-part series reflecting on a year of virtual teaching and learning, Diana describes her approach to having ‘serious fun’ in the classroom. Based on principles of play and experimentation, Diana asks: what if trusting your audience by opening up to the group is the secret ingredient that will allow for connection in meaningful ways? From improv to gifs and puns (oh my!) Diana has given herself a gift: permission to be vulnerable and show up in front of hundreds of students as her true self. Let’s have some serious fun.

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This is the final episode in a 3-part magazine mini-series. Each episode features a conversation with amazing people doing amazing work in the world of magazine production and publishing. In this episode, Darren Halliday, Sales Director for Canada’s largest magazine printer shares his insights about the printed medium and the business of printed magazines. He shares some very hopeful information for small, niche magazine publishers; namely that you don’t have to have a huge following to be successful and the printing industry is better equipped than ever before to support independent publishers.

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This is the second episode in a 3-part magazine mini-series. Each episode features a conversation with amazing people doing amazing work in the world of magazine production and publishing. In this episode, Janine Vangool of Uppercase Magazine (now publishing its 50th issue!) shares her insights of more than a decade designing and publishing magazines, including a hot tip for linking editorial content in Google Docs directly to Adobe InDesign, as well as how she approaches grid structure in the layout of each issue. She also discusses the ways in which niche publications can get off the ground, how to succeed as an independent publisher and why Uppercase Magazine will always be offered in print.

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This is the first episode in a 3-part magazine mini-series. Each episode features a conversation with amazing people doing amazing work in the world of magazine production and publishing. In this episode, Jay Page and Steve Frattaroli of Flash Reproductions in Toronto, Canada share their experiences with a creative publication that’s unlike any other in Canada: Wayward Arts magazine.

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This is a special episode. It’s not everyday you get to chat with one of your professional idols! Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer. Her most recent book, Extra Bold: a feminist, inclusive, anti-racist, nonbinary field guide for graphic designers, was published earlier this month and it’s an incredible resource for everyone in the design industry. 

In this episode, you’ll hear from Ellen about why this book, and the subject matter contained within, is so needed in the field of design. You’ll also hear why design is the perfect discipline to normalize the visual language of equity, diversity and inclusion. Ellen also provides insights about the way in which design is a tool for change, helping to give visual shape to social movements. And, as one of the greatest typographic minds on the planet, she gives as near a perfect answer as possible to my question about the single typeface she would use for the rest of her life. Also joining us on this episode bringing his unique perspective and voice, is Diana’s colleague and friend, Chris Ambedkar.

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This is the final episode in a 3-part mini-series about digital publishing, featuring original student work, in their own voices. Four emerging minds teach us about what’s near, new and next in the digital publishing space; from the future of the PDF (Tristan Fitkin), to virtual education (Mya Leggo), to NFTs (Matthew Soesito), to artificial intelligence for digital publishing (Jack Benjamin), this episode ends the series making predictions about the future of an evolving industry. 

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This is the second episode in a 3-part mini-series about digital publishing, featuring original student work, in their own voices. Four emerging minds teach us about the ways in which technology can help take digital publishing to the next level; from remix culture (Celaia Gonzalez), to continuous publishing (Stephen Fernandez), to paywalls (Bronwyn James), as well as accessibility considerations and user interaction (Dominique Paul), this episode continues where the first left off.

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This is the first episode in a 3-part mini-series about digital publishing, featuring original student work, in their own voices. Four emerging minds teach us about the digital publishing of yesterday and current technologies used today; from the history of blogging (Tristan Aus), to an overview of the current state of digital publishing (Maria Shah), to the technical aspects of  using Adobe InDesign vs. Pressbooks (Aanya Kumar) and the collaborative possibilities of digital publishing using Wattpad (Wendy Yang), this episode covers a lot of ground. 

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If you’ve ever had a moment when you’ve wanted to break up with your phone, this episode is for you. Sometimes we just have to disconnect to reconnect, you know? After reading Catherine Price’s ‘How to Break Up With Your Phone’, Diana reflects on the impact our phones have on our minds, our well being and our creativity. The way in which we think about our relationship with these complicated, emotional, ever-present objects is essential to choosing whether or not to spend our days writing our own life stories or spend our days consuming others’ life stories. If we’re merely consumers of the world and not creating our own world, whose world are we living in? 

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