99% Invisible

by Roman Mars (roman@prx.org) · · ·

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org. A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.

According to Need is a documentary podcast in 5 chapters from 99% Invisible’s Katie Mingle that asks: What are we doing to get people into housing? Coming December 1

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424- The Great Indoors Nov. 25, 2020
Emily Anthes looks at all of the ways our indoor spaces impact our health, and observes that there is so much we don't really know about the places we spend a majority of our lives.
423- Sean Exploder Nov. 21, 2020
Sean Exploder is a podcast where Sean Real takes apart her songs, and piece by piece, tells the story of how they were made.
If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’ve been directed to study the safety briefing card in your seatback pocket.
Enron collapsed nearly 20 years ago, but chances are something you use today was affected by emails sent by 150 of the company's top employees.
The catastrophic and dramatic fall of a bunch of cities that no longer exist
419- Take a Walk Oct. 27, 2020
Taking a walk with our friends at Pop Up Magazine
Designing for the Next Billion Users
418- Sign Stealing Oct. 20, 2020
The Houston Astros and the long storied history of sign stealing in baseball
Protecting and restoring an extremely important but historically maligned ecosystem
Roman and Kurt describe Oakland as it is
415- Goodnight Nobody Sept. 29, 2020
The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library's children's reading room and Goodnight Moon
414- The Address Book Sept. 22, 2020
An address is something many people take for granted today, but they are in fact a fairly recent invention that has shaped our cities and taken on great political importance.
413- Highways 101 Sept. 15, 2020
Icons and symbols and signage are all around us, and nowhere more so than on the open road.
Many transgender, non-binary, and intersex people risk stress and sometimes physical danger when entering bathrooms that are segregated by sex. But a group of people have devised a design solution that may make bathrooms better for everyone.
411- Podcast Episode Sept. 1, 2020
The no-brand that changed the way we eat, shop, and ironically, think about branding
How the Post Office created America
How cars transformed American freedom
Old taggers meet their anti-tagging arch-nemesis, and how they have turned out after all these years
A monument built by a fascist that was meant to honor people who died in the Spanish Civil War, but is also a mass grave of the people he murdered