On this week's episode, Jarrett is joined by Walter Hood to talk about thinking of landscapes as a medium, his interest in subverting typologies, and why he refers to his work as a cultural practice.
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On this week's episode, Jarrett talks with graphic designer and writer Oliver Munday about his first book of fiction, the short story collection "Head of Household"!
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In our latest episode, Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter of Honey & Bunny talk to Jarrett Fuller about how food is a design object that can explore the complex systems that influence our lives.
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On today's episode, Jarrett is joined by Honey and Bunny's Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter to talk about about the origins of food design, what they learned from Hans Hollein, and why food is the most important design object.
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Today on our Substack, we're featuring Sightlines, a new book series from MACK Books, that features short books on architecture from a particular point of view.
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In our latest episode, designer and educator Otto von Busch talks about the hypocrisy (and his place in it) of design academia that he explores in his provocative new book, The Design Comedy.
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On this week's episode, Jarrett is joined by Otto von Busch to talk about his new book, The Design Comedy, and its analysis of the state of design, the value of making in design education, and the relationship between design practice and design theory.
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Today in our members-only newsletter, we have a new interview with Vishaan Chakrabarti reflecting on the first ten years of PAU, the studio he founded to bridge architecture and urbanism.
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In our latest episode, @ghostlyint.bsky.social founder Sam Valenti IV talks to @jarrettfuller.bsky.social about the relationship between design and music and design's impact on the wider culture!
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In our first episode of the new year, Jarrett is joined by @ghostlyint.bsky.social founder Sam Valenti IV to talk about how music and design shape culture.
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On today's episode, @jarrettfuller.bsky.social talks with architectural writer, editor, teacher, and critic Thomas Weaver about how do get more interesting design writing!
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To celebrate our ninth year (!) of production, we're going to close out 2025 with a special bonus episode where Jarrett Fuller will be answering your questions!
Send in your questions — either by replying here or DM — by 12/19 and we'll sort through the best for Jarrett to answer.
Today in our members-only newsletter, we have a new interview with Michael Bierut about Theo Crosby, one of the five original @pentagramdesign.bsky.social partners who would have turned 100 this year.
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On this week's episode, Jarrett talks with Carlo Ratti, curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale about the exhibitions, intelligences, and the senseable city!
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In our latest episode, Maggie Gram talks about how we turn to design in times of crisis and how she's hopeful design can shift to meet this moment.
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In our latest episode, Maggie Grams talks about her new book, The Invention of Design, and how our understanding of it has shifted through various movements over the last century.
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On this week's episode, Jarrett Fuller is joined by designer and historian Maggie Gram to talk about her new book, The Invention of Design!
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Today in our members-only newsletter, we have a new interview with Julia Watson about her new book, LO-TEK — Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology.
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In our latest episode, WORKac's Amale Andraos and Dan Wood talk about the civic dimension of their work and how buildings are always in dialogue with their surroundings.
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Today on our site, James Dyer reviews the first book from Mubi's new publishing imprint, Mubi Editions: Read Frame Type Film, a survey of how typography has been used in film.
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In our latest episode, WORKac's Amale Andraos and Dan Wood talk about how the building as a form is still an ideal site to explore a range of ideas at a range of scales.
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On this week's episode, @jarrettfuller.bsky.social is joined by WORKac's Amale Andraos and Dan Wood to talk about the threads that connect their body of work, the role of publishing in the studio, and why they think of their work as “pop”.
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In our latest episode, TERREMOTO's David Godshall and Kasey Toomey talk about how the office structure informs their garden practice, both of which are about new relationships of power rooted in kindness and generosity.
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On our latest episode, TERREMOTO's David Godshall and Kasey Toomey talk to @jarrettfuller about how gardens are evolving conversations over time.
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On this week's episode, Jarrett is joined by Terremoto's David Godshall and Kasey Toomey to talk about about the philosophy of garden design, their work in labor activism, and why garden design might be a model for the future of design.
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In our latest episode, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby talk to Jarrett about the importance of rooting their practice in both academic contexts and design spaces.
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The October edition of our newsletter, The Monthly Dispatch, went out this morning! Features links, news, and book round ups!
Read it here: surfacepodcast.substack.com/p/october-20...
In our latest episode, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby talk about the role of objects in their concept "Not Here, Not Now" and how they should force new modes of thought.
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On this week's episode, we're joined by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to talk about their new book, Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination!
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In our latest episode, futures designer and author of Could Should Might Don't Nick Foster talks about the important skills he thinks today's design students should be learning to best prepare for the future.
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