Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
Influences
A course by Diana Varma , Writer and Podcast Host
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, you’ll learn about my key influences regarding creative confidence, as well as why narrowing down my sources of inspiration was a challenging task! ”
In this video lesson Diana Varma addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential. Learn how to reframe your challenges and turn them into a catalyst for creativity with a framework for success based on your values, intentions, and motives.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences NATURE In the last lesson, you learned a bit about me, and in this lesson, I'll share with you some of my inspirations. Anyone who knows me will tell you that narrowing down my influences to only five is very challenging for me. I am an avid reader and consumer of inspiration all around me. I can be inspired by an important work of non-fiction, an interesting bird in a tree, or anything in between. The neat thing about creative work is that as we move through our days and are inspired by things around us, we start to gather these little nodes of knowledge. By increasing the num...”
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Course summary for: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
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Diana Varma
A course by Diana Varma
Diana Varma is a writer, educator, and podcaster. She started her career in the printing industry, but always knew she wanted to teach. Since earning an MA in communication and technology, she’s been sharing her knowledge as a lecturer at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her passion is helping students connect their technical left brains with their creative right brains for fulfilling careers in creative industries.
In her free time, Diana writes, produces, and hosts the podcast Talk Paper Scissors, where she explores topics ranging from design and branding to typography and printing. She’s also written more than 150 articles on these subjects for Graphic Arts Magazine. Diana is a member of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers and, in 2019, won a Dean’s teaching award for her lectures.
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