99% Invisible

By: Roman Mars
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  • 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.
    Copyright © 2024 Roman Mars. All rights reserved.
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  • What We're Reading

    What We're Reading
    Mar 11 2025

    After we finished up The Power Broker, a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been reading. A group of us got together and presented some of our recent favorites, and the choices were so good and surprising and charming, we're now sharing it widely.

    Here are the books covered in this episode:

    • Lasha's book: Usha's Pickle Digest by Usha R Prabakaran
    • Chris's books: What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer (and The Power Broker by Robert Caro 😁)
    • Vivian's books: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
    • Jayson's books: Hoppity Frog by Emma Parrish (for the kids), Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems by Carl Philips, and Blackouts by Justin Torres
    • Joe's book: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by George Washington Plunkitt
    • Roman's book: The Pine Barrens by John McPhee

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    35 mins
  • A Beetle By Any Other Name

    A Beetle By Any Other Name
    Mar 4 2025

    A tiny, unremarkable beetle hiding in the caves of Slovenia has an infamously unfortunate name—one that has sparked heated debates in the scientific world.

    A Beetle By Any Other Name

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    28 mins
  • The Brutalists

    The Brutalists
    Feb 25 2025

    A film about a struggling architect, a style the world loves to hate—The Brutalist and Brutalism itself share more than just a name. Is it bold vision or concrete failure?

    The Brutalists

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    39 mins

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Great Show Wrong Episode

This is not the episode titled Space it’s the episode titled Clinch. Thanks for the great podcast

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Octothorpe: # lb £ pound keyboards mobile

Entertaining meander through the emergence and influence of the hashtag across centuries, technologies and designers

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I so see the world in a different way. Thank you!

Highly recommended, makes me see the world in a different way. Makes me see the world more deeply..

Non-biased, balanced. Highly recommended.

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Wonderful listening

Well worth a listen. Enjoyable content well produced. Fascinating content soothing and wonderful listening take time to have a listen.

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Best design education you can get

I’ve been faking my way thru UX / Product design for 15-years. After a bunch of hands on experience and two masters degrees, I still find myself drawing on past knowledge from 99P as much or more than any other reference set. Also makes for great date night conversations.

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Agenda biased delivery

I just wish we could learn without any bias from any direction coloring the information. I’m bummed dudes.

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