Diana Varma

Making Friends with Failure

Type Design
Date Thu. 4th
16:30 → 16:55
Location John W. H. Bassett Theatre
Diana Varma

Speaker

Diana Varma (RGD) is a Toronto-based award-winning lecturer by day, and an avid podcaster by night.

She teaches within the School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM), as well as the Master of Digital Media (MDM) program at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Bachelor of Brand Design program at George Brown College where she helps students connect their technical left brains, creative right brains, and entrepreneurial hearts for fulfilling careers in creative industries.

 

Diana is also an advocate for living your most confidently creative life, having recently produced a course for Domestika on the topic. Diana has 150+ published articles in Graphic Arts Magazine, as well as through the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and she firmly believes that more problems should be solved by 'lip syncing for your life’.

Diana Varma

About The Talk

Making Friends with Failure

Fear of failure too often robs the world of incredible creativity. Design educator, Diana Varma, firmly believes that while failure may choose to walk alongside us during our creative lives, we are not failure. Once we’ve established a healthy boundary with failure, we can then welcome it with open arms, inviting it to play.

 

In this interactive talk, Diana will lead you through her two-step process for making friends with failure that may change your creative process (or at least tickle your funny bone).

Our
speakers

  • Isabel Moranta
  • Amelie Maia
  • Victor Costa
  • Simon D’haenens
  • Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié
  • Claudio Guglieri
  • JP Burcks & Mia Pratevito
  • Parker Peterson
  • Adriano Esteves
  • Rhodi Iliadou & Peter Ha
  • Filippo Cipriani
  • Pablo Stanley
  • Franco Arza & Clément Roche
  • Ali Hosseini
  • Josh Kirk
  • Diana Varma
  • Vitaly Friedman
  • Femke van Schoonhoven
  • Nicolas Brassard-Ferron
  • Hilary Hayes
  • Romain Prache
  • Travis Neilson
  • Brent David Freaney
  • Jonathan Morin
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Isabel Moranta

Isabel Moranta

Art Director Locomotive CAN
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Amelie Maia

Amelie Maia

Creative Technical Architect Jam3 CAN
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Victor Costa

Victor Costa

Designer & Creative Developer Independent CAN
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Simon D’haenens

Simon D’haenens

Lead Designer DOGSTUDIO/DEPT® USA
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Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié

Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié

Partner & Technical Director & Lead Front-end Dev. Locomotive CAN
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Claudio Guglieri

Claudio Guglieri

Head of Design Opal Camera USA
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