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 variety of digital and analog tools in experimental ways. You’ll also hear Peter share his Vietnamese culture (and a Zoolander reference makes an appearance!).

I encourage you to check out Instagram @talkpaperscissors or talkpaperscissors.info for visuals that Peter describes in this episode.

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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 today
• Johnny's entrepreneurial evolution, including where the name ‘Johnny Cupcakes’ originates
• Actionable steps for flexible and long lasting logo design
• A sales strategy that really works: the art of the pre-sale
• Demystifying working with others: licensing, partnering and parody
• How to price products to reflect invisible value
• And remembering that being kind is free

This conversation is so rich and has a ton of actionable items for starting and growing a brand.

Entrepreneurs, marketers, brand owners, printers and designers… this episode is for ALL of you!

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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 as for smaller, local clients can be exciting in their own right.

Check out the visuals discussed in this episode at talkpaperscissors.info or Instagram @talkpaperscissors and @sophie_elinor.

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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 Tinkerers in action. We get into the traps of social media and Ally’s big goals for the space.

Finally, we end with a discussion of the 4 P’s we’re both working to cultivate in our respective spaces: projects, passion, peers and play (aka Lifelong Kindergarten!).

Join Tinker in Toronto’s Annex this fall: September 19, October 3 & October 17

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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], Virtual Reality [VR] and Mixed Reality [MR]). Finally you’ll learn more about the specific ways that Michael envisions the use of XR and the possibilities for the publishing industry.

Images and videos discussed in the episode can be found in the show notes at talkpaperscissors.info.

This episode is part of a guest lecture series in CGCM 720 Magazine Production & Publishing, as well as DG 8111 Digital Publishing in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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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 creativity, professional publications and zine culture. Music lovers, typography lovers, zine lovers… this episode is for you.

Images discussed in the episode can be found in the show notes at talkpaperscissors.info.

This episode is part of a guest lecture series in CGCM 720 Magazine Production & Publishing, as well as DG 8111 Digital Publishing in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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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 the same story differently across mediums.

You’ll also hear about the shifts that Angela’s seen in the last 20 years in publishing industry, and what parts of journalism Angela believes are most at risk from AI domination. You’ll also hear what Angela believes we’ll be talking about in a year’s time when it comes to AI and journalism.

This episode is part of a guest lecture series in CGCM 720 Magazine Production & Publishing, as well as DG 8111 Digital Publishing in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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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 beyond fonts (size, style and colour).

You’ll hear tips for using Adobe InDesign effectively to consider both the print experience and the digital reading experience (your future self will thank you for it!) and you’ll learn more about accessibility features Alyssa must consider in the app she manages. Finally, Alyssa and I brainstorm what digital reading might look like as technology advances.

This episode is part of a guest lecture series in CGCM 720 Magazine Production & Publishing, as well as DG 8111 Digital Publishing in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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