Jarrett Fuller

Raleigh

Designer/Writer/Teacher. Teaching @NCStateDesign. Podcasting @surfacepodcast. Writing + Editing @AIGAEyeOnDesign. Designing @26_design. he/him/his

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Articles

In A Century of Tomorrows, Glenn Adamson chronicles the history of predicting the future

Jan 22, 2025 | archpaper.com | Jarrett Fuller

A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present Glenn Adamson Bloomsbury $29.69“Anyone who thinks about the future,” Albert Einstein wrote in a contribution to the 1939 World’s Fair time capsule that was intended to be opened in the year 6939, “must live in fear and terror.” Today, nearly 85 years later, the great physicist’s words feel like good advice.
The best design books of 2024

Dec 19, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Jarrett Fuller

BY Jarrett Fuller4 minute readI think about this year-end list of design books all year long, collecting stacks, reading hundreds of pages, pouring over countless images. I keep a list of the books that stick with me and feel like they show me something new. But it’s only when I narrow that long list down for publication that I can see the trends that emerged over the year. Regardless of circumstance, it seems there are always threads connecting the books that have meant the most to me.
The design industry is broken. These design coaches want to fix it

Dec 11, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Jarrett Fuller

By most external factors, Renda Morton had a successful career in design. In the late 2000s, she co-founded the design studio Rumors where she and the team worked on identities, websites, and books for a range of clients. She joined The New York Times as a designer in 2012, eventually becoming the paper’s Vice President of Design before moving to California to lead product design at Dropbox in 2018. But in late 2020, in the midst of COVID-19, she started to experience a burnout.
The world is on fire. Can design help save it?

Jul 11, 2024 | fastcompanyme.com | Jarrett Fuller

I think the difference between design and other disciplines of making is that design is about desirability. It’s about finding what you care about, and then embodying that in the world. And that’s a really specific way to go about doing things. I think it’s a helpful way, but it can also be harmful. Carissa Carter: When we talk about design, we think of it on many levels and layers.
A new book from Stanford design professors explores the power of design

Jul 10, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Jarrett Fuller

“In an environment that is screwed up visually, physically, and chemically, the best and simplest thing that architects, industrial designers, planners, etc., could do for humanity would be to stop working entirely,” wrote designer and educator Victor Papanek in his 1971 book, Design for The Real World. Fifty years later, there’s still a truth in Papanek’s critique that rings true to me.
223. James Bridle (Originally aired 12/21/22)

Jul 2, 2024 | player.fm | Jarrett Fuller

Comic Geek Speak is the best podcast about comic books for fans and new readers alike. Put together by a group of life-long comic geeks, it's 4-5 hours a week of comic book history, current comic news, and a general look at the industry. In addition to all the latest in comics talk, the show also features creator interviews, listener responses, contests, and trivia, lots of trivia. So listen in and experience all the joys of a Wednesday afternoon at the comic shop, from the comfort of your o ...
204. Lorraine Wild (Originally aired 12/22/21)

Jun 18, 2024 | player.fm | Jarrett Fuller

Comic Geek Speak is the best podcast about comic books for fans and new readers alike. Put together by a group of life-long comic geeks, it's 4-5 hours a week of comic book history, current comic news, and a general look at the industry. In addition to all the latest in comics talk, the show also features creator interviews, listener responses, contests, and trivia, lots of trivia. So listen in and experience all the joys of a Wednesday afternoon at the comic shop, from the comfort of your o ...
An Ode to Garages

Jun 3, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Edwin Heathcote |Karrie Jacobs |Jarrett Fuller |Charlie Weak

One of my earliest memories is of my grandpa Jim, my mom’s dad, helping me build a pinewood derby racer in his garage in Juniata, Nebraska. I vaguely remember him showing me how he used an old band saw and belt sander to shape the racer’s aerodynamic body, whittling down compartments under the nose to fit weights so that the car would accelerate more rapidly.
In Search of Domestic Kintsugi

May 28, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Edwin Heathcote |Karrie Jacobs |Jarrett Fuller |Eva Hagberg

In 1972, construction workers were finishing off the last elements of a remarkable new building in Tokyo. The Nakagin Capsule Tower was a space-age construction, a tall pile of seemingly random arranged concrete boxes, each perforated by a single porthole window, rising above the crowded streets of Ginza like a Brutalist stack of Lego. The following year, workers began dismantling the wooden structures of the Grand Shrine of Ise, a couple of hundred miles to the west of Tokyo.
253. Leonard Koren

May 21, 2024 | player.fm | Jarrett Fuller

Comic Geek Speak is the best podcast about comic books for fans and new readers alike. Put together by a group of life-long comic geeks, it's 4-5 hours a week of comic book history, current comic news, and a general look at the industry. In addition to all the latest in comics talk, the show also features creator interviews, listener responses, contests, and trivia, lots of trivia. So listen in and experience all the joys of a Wednesday afternoon at the comic shop, from the comfort of your o ...