Jarrett Fuller

Books

01/02/2024

Books Read 2023

A list of books read in 2023.

12/07/2023

My new book! Where Must Design Go Next?

My new book is out now, produced by the Institute of Design and published by Oro Editions.

05/22/2023

Maybe I still like design?

How Paul Sahre’s 2017 memoir/monograph reminded me what it was like to love design.

05/05/2023

No Finish Line and the ghosts of McLuhan

Why a new publication from Nike appropriates the visual style of Marshall McLuhan's famous book.

05/01/2023

Summer Book Recommendations

Friday was my last day of the semester. How about some book recommendations?

03/20/2023

Either way, the tech will save us

On using technology to absolve us of responsibility

03/17/2023

‘I got into teaching because I really like teaching’

A passage from my favorite novel of 2023 (so far).

01/03/2023

Books Read 2022

An accounting of the books I read in 2022.

07/15/2022

Robert Caro’s rhythm

Appreciating the writer’s prose.

05/04/2022

Summer Reading

What I'm thinking about lately and the differences between reading for pleasure and reading for work.

03/12/2022

Design Journalism is the First Draft of Design History

Reading Herbert Muschamp's essays in 2022 is like reading history being written.

02/06/2022

Between Memory and Invention: Robert A.M. Stern and the intersection of history and practice

The architect's new memoir captures many of the intersections that animate my work.

01/05/2022

Movies Watched, 2021

A list of every movie I watched in 2021.

01/04/2022

Books Read, 2021

A list of every book I read in 2021.

02/01/2021

An American Tragedy

Considering the parallels between Barack Obama's memoir and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.

01/04/2021

Books Read, 2020

A list of every book I read in 2020.

09/22/2020

Kurt Andersen looks at how America was designed

Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses are books about American history but they are also books about design.

05/05/2020

A Mid-Year Reading List

Some of my favorite books from the first half of 2020.

01/06/2020

Books Read, 2019

A list of every book I read in 2019.

11/13/2019

A *New* Program for Graphic Design

David Reinfurt's A *New* Program for Graphic Design both simplifies and expands what graphic design can be.

09/11/2019

This is the best design monograph I’ve ever read

Henry Cobb’s new monograph is everything I want in a designer monograph.

07/19/2019

Tourist/Purist

The mid-career retrospective on the multi-disciplinary creative director reveals the portrait of a new type of designer

06/14/2019

Human Archipelago

Teju Cole and Fazal Sheik's new collaboration is an examination of human migration and an example of art for troubled times.

05/23/2019

Johnson and Trump, Power and Celebrity

Reading Robert Caro in the age of Trump.

05/12/2019

2019 Reading Habits

On what I've read this year and changes in my reading habits

03/13/2019

Reinier de Graaf on research as design, architecture as a conceptual practice, and his new book

On the latest episode of Scratching the Surface, I'm joined by the OMA partner.

12/10/2018

Culture Is Not Always Popular: 15 years of (reading) Design Observer

On reading Design Observer for fifteen years and working on a new book

08/24/2018

Design as an Attitude

The design critic Alice Rawthorne's new book attempts to create a roadmap for the future of design.

05/31/2017

On Monographs

What is the point of publishing a monograph?

08/05/2016

Experimental Jetset’s Statement and Counter-Statement

The new monograph from Experimental Jetset plays with the form.

01/05/2016

The Power Broker

On finally reading Robert Caro's biography of New York's master builder.