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is a podcast about the intersection of criticism and practice for graphic designers by Jarrett Fuller.
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137. Darran Anderson
Darran Anderson is a writer and author of Imaginary Cities and the forthcoming Inventory. His writing on architecture, design, and space has appeared in The Atlantic, Vice, and CityLab. In this episode, Jarrett and Darran talk about his early interest in architecture and literature, experimenting with new forms of writing, and expanding how we talk about architecture and cities.
Show Notes:
Darran Anderson
@Oniropolis
Imaginary Cities - Darran Anderson
Bob Dylan
Future Shock in the Countryside - Darran Anderson
Inventory: A Memoir - Darran Anderson
Italo Calvino
Jorge Luis Borges
The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Darran Anderson on Patreon
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136. Nicholas Korody
Nicholas Korody is a writer and artist. He writes for Archinect, where is also the editor of their print publication, Ed; and is one-half of Adjustments Agency, a studio and artistic practice he formed with Joanna Kloppenburg to investigate the architecture of architecture. Earlier this year, Nicholas launched Interiors Agency, his new independent practice interested in the role of interior design and decoration in culture. In this episode, Jarrett and Nicholas talk about his liberal arts background and sideways entry into architecture, the labor of design discourse, working across various mediums.
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Nicholas Korody
@NicholasKorody
Nicholas's archive on Archinect
Archinect's Ed
Adjustments Agency
89plus
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille - Denis Hollier
Molly Nesbit
Refusal after Refusal - Adjustments Agency
Waves - Virginia Woolf
Interiors.Agency
Mere Decorating - Nicholas Korody
05. Michael Bierut on Scratching the Surface
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135. Marco Steinberg
Marco Steinberg is a strategic designer who works on the complex challenges that face governments, society, and the environment. Currently working independently, he previously founded and led the Helsinki Design Lab and was an Associate Professor at the Harvard Design School from 1999-2009. In this episode, Jarrett and Marco talk about the evolution of his career and move from architecture to strategic design, what strategic design means and how he thinks about his work, and why governments are in need of a redesign.
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Marco Steinberg
@marcolsteinberg
71. Bryan Boyer on Scratching the Surface
88. Dan Hill on Scratching the Surface
95. Justin W. Cook on Scratching the Surface
Helsinki Design Lab
Stroke Pathways Project
Victor Papanek
Buckminster Fuller
Magic Motorways - Norman Bel Geddes
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134. Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara is a Pentagram partner whose work spans design, technology, and strategy. He previously ran his own studio, The Map office, and worked as a designer at 2x4 and Imaginary Forces. In this episode, Jarrett and Eddie talk about questioning the brief, why his work is considered enigmatic, and thinking about your legacy.
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Eddie Opara
04. Michael Rock on Scratching the Surface
Pentagram
Makr Shakr
Color Works - Eddie Opara and John Cantwell
Bjarke Ingels
Rem Koolhaas
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133. Vishaan Chakrabarti
Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, urban planner, author, and academic. He's the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, the author of A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for Urban America, and was just announced as the next dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. In this episode, Jarrett and Vishaan talk about his circuitous path to architecture, the intersection of practice and teaching, and how he plans to approach his new deanship.
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Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
@@VishaanNYCA
SOM
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America - Vishaan Chakrabarti
UC Berkeley names dean to College of Environmental Design
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Mannahatta - Eric Sanderson
Kevin Lynch
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama
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132. Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. She's the author of How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, teaches digital/phyiscal design at Stanford and has been the artist in residence at the Recology SF (aka 'the dump', San Francisco Planning Department, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In this episode, Jarrett and Jenny talk about her background in literature and design, the intersection of text and image, and the value of seeing what is front of you.
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Jenny Odell
@the_jennitaur
How To Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
04. Michael Rock on Scratching the Surface
The Bureau of Suspended Objects
There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch - Jenny Odell
Museum of Capitalism
Technics and Civilization - Lewis Mumford
Rivers and Shadows - Rebecca Solnit
The Agony of Eros - Byung-Chul Han
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131. Danah Abdulla
Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator, and researcher. She's a Senior Lecturer in Communication Design at Brunel University London; founder of Kalimat, non-profit magazine about Arab thought and culture; and a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform. In this episode, Danah and Jarrett talk about localizing design education, studying social design, and what it means to decolonize design.
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Danah Abdulla
@danah.abdulla
Decolonising Design
Kalimat
MICA's MA in Social Design
72. Shannon Mattern on Scratching the Surface
Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks
Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed
Contemporary Arab Thought - Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Designs for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar
Academic Diary - Les Back
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130. Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is perhaps the foremost writer, critic, and editor on graphic design and visual culture. He is Professor of Design and Visual Culture at the University of Reading. In addition to founding and serving as the first editor in chief of Eye, Rick also cofounded Design Observer, continues as a columnist for Eye, and has written for Print and Blueprint. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jarrett and Rick talk about the early days of Eye and his early interest in visual culture, the evolution of design discourse over his career, and the new publications that excite him today.
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Rick Poynor
Eye
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Deyan Sudjic
Blueprint
Emigre
76. Rudy VanderLans / Scratching the Surface
03. Steven Heller / Scratching the Surface
What is this thing called graphic design criticism - Rick Poynor and Michael Rock
04. Michael Rock / Scratching the Surface
Multiple Signatures - Michael Rock
Speak Up
Design Observer
Counter Signals
Modes of Criticism
22 . Francisco Laranjo / Scratching the Surface
Back Cover
AIGA Eye on Design
Perrin Drumm
58. Alice Twemlow / Scratching the Surface
Dirty Furniture
46. Elizabeth Glickfeld / Scratching the Surface
London Review of Books
Sight & Sound
British Journal of Photography
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129. Mark Foster Gage
Mark Foster Gage is an architect, author, and educator. He's an Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture, principal of Mark Foster Gage Architects, and the editor of the new book, Aesthetics Equals Politics. In this conversation, Jarrett and Mark talk about the history of aesthetics and how it shapes our experience in the world, the problems with critiques, and how narrative can obscure how a building functions.
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Mark Foster Gage
Aesthetics Equals Politics - Mark Foster Gage
Robert A.M. Stern
Ferdinand de Saussure
Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts - Mark Foster Gage
Less Aesthetics More Ethics - Massimiliano Fuksas
Santiago Calatrava Explains How He Designed the Oculus For Future Generations
VIA 57 West - Bjarke Ingels
Designing Social Equality - Mark Foster Gage
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128. Ali Qadeer and Chris Lee
Ali Qadeer and Chris Lee are designers and educators. Together, they edited a recent issue of C Magazine with the theme graphic design. In this episode, Jarrett talks with Ali and Chris about the issue and their ideas around the editorial point-of-view, their teaching practice, and why they like finding new definitions for graphic design.
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Chris Lee
@chrislee_uu
Ali Qadeer
@iamasq
C Magazine Issue 141: Graphic Design
119. Michèle Champagne / Scratching the Surface
Lisa Gitelman
123. Na Kim / Scratching the Surface
Imagined Communities - Benedict Anderson
Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
Labor and Monopoly Capital - Harry Braverman
Graphic Design History - Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paolo Friere
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
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127. Jerome Harris
Jerome Harris is a designer, educator, and curator. He’s currently the design director of Housing Works and recently taught at MICA and curated the show As, Not For, a survey of African American graphic design. In this episode, Jerome and Jarrett talk about his background as a flyer designer and dancer, , how thinking about design history changed his own approach, and why we need to include as wide a range of work as possible when teaching design.
Show Notes:
Jerome Harris
@StreetViperIII
102. Laurel Schwulst | Scratching the Surface
Artspace
As, Not For
Buddy Esquire
Eye on Design Issue 4: Worth
John Gambell
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126. Edwin Heathcote
Edwin Heathcote is the architecture critic for the Financial Times and the founder and editor-in-chief of Reading Design. Originally trained as an architect, Edwin has also written for GQ and is the author of multiple books on architecture and design. In this episode, Jarrett and Edwin talk about his writing process, looking at architecture through a wider cultural lens, and the value of reading criticism from history.
Show Notes:
@edwinheathcote
Edwin's archive at the Financial Times
Reading Design
125. Erik Brandt | Scratching the Surface
The Shed, New York — a space for experimentation in the corporate cityscape of Hudson Yards - Edwin Heathcote
Michael Sorkin
Rem Koolhaas
114. Reinier de Graaf | Scratching the Surface
118. Oliver Wainwright | Scratching the Surface
Milton Keynes: curio from the past or model for the future?
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125. Erik Brandt
Erik Brandt is a graphic designer and educator. From 2013 to 2018, he curates the internationally recognized experimental typography project, Ficciones Typografika, which has just been commemorated with a book by Formist; and is the chair of the graphic design department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In this episode, Jarrett and Erik talk about expanded practices, teaching alternative forms of design, and staying creative as you get older.
Show Notes:
Erik Brandt
@geotypografika
Ficciones Typograpfika
AIGA Design + Education Panel featuring Erik Brandt, Eric Hu, and Hassan Rahim
Studio Mut
geotypografika
62. Mitch Goldstein | Scratching the Surface
The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorges Luis Borges
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
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124. Bruce Tharp
Bruce Tharp is an Associate Professor in Art & Design at the Stamps School of Art and Design and is the co-author, with his wife Stephanie, of the new book, Discursive Design. Bruce originally studied mechanical engineering before getting an MID in Industrial Design and a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology. In this episode, Jarrett and Bruce talk about discursive design and what that means, the strange trajectory of his career, and bridging the gaps between research and materiality.
Show Notes:
Bruce Tharp
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things - Bruce and Stephanie Tharp
Dunne and Raby
Hertizan Tales - Anthony Dunne
EveryNoise.com
Metahaven
Adversarial Design - Carl DiSalvo
Speculative Everything - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Critical Design in Context - Matt Malpass
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks - Ben Goldacre
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini
Made to Stick - Chip Heath
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123. Na Kim
Na Kim is a graphic designer based in Seoul and Berlin. She's a member of Table Union, was responsible for the design of Graphic magazine from 2009 to 2011 and was artistic director of the Fikra Graphic Design Biennial with Prem Krishnamurthy and Emily Smith. In this episode, Jarrett and Na talk about her journey to graphic design, the self-reflexivity in her work, and the relationships between curating and design.
Show Notes:
Na Kim
nananananananakim
11. Prem Krishnamurthy | Scratching the Surface
29. Emily Smith | Scratching the Surface
Paul Elliman
Graphic
Fikra Design Biennial
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122. Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger is perhaps the leading architecture critic working today. He's served as architecture critic for both The New York Times and The New Yorker and is now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He's the author of several books including a biography of Frank Gehry and his new book is Ballpark: Baseball in the American City. In this conversation, Jarrett and Paul talk about how architecture criticism has evolved, working with Ada Louise Huxtable, and what baseball parks can teach us about cities.
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Paul Goldberger
@paulgoldberger
96. Christopher Hawthorne | Scratching the Surface
Ada Louise Huxtable
Paul Goldberger at The New York Times
Paul Goldberger at The New Yorker
Paul Goldberger at Vanity Fair
Vincent Scully
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City - Paul Goldberger
Up From Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York - Paul Goldberger
Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry - Paul Goldberger
de Kooning: An American Master - Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
41. Mark Lamster | Scratching the Surface
DUMBO
Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus - Fiona MacCarthy
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121. Kerry William Purcell
Kerry William Purcell has written books and essays about photography, film, design, philosophy, and critical theory. He's the author of biographies on Alexey Brodovitch and Josef Muller-Brockmann and is a senior lecturer in design history at University of Hertfordshire. In this episode, Jarrett and Kerry talk about how he found himself writing designer biographies, why he doesn't like to call himself a design historian, and how design can be a lens to ask questions around culture, politics, and history.
Show Notes:
Kerry William Purcell
@kerrypurcell
Alexey Brodovitch - Kerry William Purcell
Josef Muller-Brockmann - Kerry William Purcell
Herbert Matter
Source
Alain Badiou
Zero Books
Repeater Books
Games Without Frontiers - Joe Kennedy
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