Jarrett Fuller

Work

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.

09/21/2023

On sustained creative careers

Revisiting (and revising) that famous Ira Glass quote.

01/11/2023

The Setup (2023 edition)

Thinking about the tools I use and what I value in software.

12/27/2022

2022 Year in Review

Reflecting on the past year and looking towards the future.

08/05/2022

Andrew Blauvelt is the best example of designer as author

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

06/27/2022

cult + time = religion brand

My latest piece for Eye on Design explores the overlap of cults and brands.

05/04/2022

Summer Reading

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

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.

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.

04/23/2020

Why I Photograph

A collection of unedited thoughts on my history with photography

03/23/2020

Newsletter Sample: Greetings from Social Distancing!

Did you know I have a monthly-ish newsletter? Here's the recent issue.

11/07/2019

Working out the material, practicing in public, and embracing the process

How reading about comedians' creative processes is making me feel lazy.

05/29/2019

Scratching the Surface featured in Eye Magazine

I'm honored to be included in a recent essay in Eye Magazine!

02/25/2019

New Year, New Blog

Return to form, back to blogging. Welcome to the new jarrettfuller.blog

01/02/2019

2019

A favorite passage from a favorite book

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

11/14/2018

100 episodes of Scratching the Surface, Sway, and a conversation with my good friend Rory King

Every questions I've asked on Scratching the Surface Rory and I have been asking each other for ten years.

06/25/2018

Social Media Sabbatical

Taking a break from social media to reclaim my attention.

04/26/2018

Introducing twenty-six design!

I'm launching a design studio!

04/10/2018

The New To-Do List: why I’m back to pen and paper

Finding comfort in writing my to-dos out by hand.