Jarrett Fuller

Design

02/05/2024

What It Means To Be a Designer Today

My new book, co-edited with Liz Stinson, is now available for preorder.

01/16/2024

Return to Form

Documenting shifts in my design education and teaching.

12/29/2023

2023 Year in Review

A look back and a look ahead.

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.

07/27/2023

The Shearing Layers of Graphic Design Education

Thinking about the adaptibility of Stewart Brand's famous diagram

07/13/2023

Design Camp

An origin story of sorts.

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.

01/08/2023

Revisiting Lost

Rewatching a television show ten years later and remembering an old school project.

12/27/2022

2022 Year in Review

Reflecting on the past year and looking towards the future.

10/24/2022

The Vapidity of Design PR

Why is it so hard to talk about ourselves without sounding shallow?

10/20/2022

More on design thinking (and the value of blogging)

A few more thoughts (and responses) to my recent post on design thinking.

10/12/2022

What if design isn’t problem solving?

A few thoughts on design thinking, cultural invention, and why corporate America broke up with design.

08/05/2022

Andrew Blauvelt is the best example of designer as author

On writing the biography for this year's AIGA Medalist.

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.

12/31/2021

2021 Year in Review

Reflecting on the year and looking ahead.

12/20/2021

Websites as time capsules

On realizing my website is my longest-running design project.

11/29/2021

A few unordered thoughts on design school critique

How does critique evolve in a constantly changing design field?

10/29/2021

Five Years and 200 Episodes of Scratching the Surface

Thinking about how my podcast evolved over the last half-decade.

09/17/2021

Expansive Bodies: Design, Expanded Practice, and Administration at Het Nieuwe Instituut

Two recent episodes of Scratching the Surface look inside this polymorphic cultural center.

07/27/2021

Reconsidering Cranbrook's legacy and writing opening paragraphs

My latest story for Eye on Design is about the influence of Cranbrook's graphic design program.

05/20/2021

New Essay: Dot Dot Dot Is The Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

My latest story for Eye on Design is about the influence of one of my favorite design publications.

05/12/2021

A proposal for a new type of design education

A few thoughts on rethinking the relationship between design education and industry.

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.

08/19/2020

New Essay: On design criticism and the expanding nature of design

For Eye on Design, I wrote about the state of design criticism and how the field has gotten grown and gotten more complex.

08/10/2020

The End of the Designer-Genius

The myth of the sole creative genius has allowed bad behavior to persist for too long.

06/09/2020

Creating new design histories

Where history is often used to define and defend, let’s use design history to open up, to blur, to democratize.

01/13/2020

Netflix keeps design ‘Abstract’

The design docuseries wants to show you cool images but doesn't have much to say.

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.

07/19/2019

Tourist/Purist

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

05/15/2019

A Design Writing Reading List

A selection of readings from the design writing class I recently taught at Pratt.

04/08/2019

Re-examining the Bauhaus

The famous German school's centennial lets us re-examine the history we thought we knew.

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

10/20/2018

Celebrity designers, context collapse, and rethinking how we teach design history

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.

04/26/2018

Introducing twenty-six design!

I'm launching a design studio!

03/13/2018

Long Live the Web!

Why I still just love HTML and CSS

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.