Ranked #1
Episode 86: Home and Away
Episode 86: Home and Away
Wes Anderson in Italy; 3D printed Mars habitat competition; from Hilton to boutique hotels to Airbnb; designer baby name... Read more
10 Aug 2018
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31mins
Ranked #2
Episode 49: My First Tattoo
Episode 49: My First Tattoo
Tattoos, Type 1 diabetes, ID cards, taking MBA students to the art gallery, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Rothko, Mike Mill... Read more
26 Jan 2017
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34mins
Ranked #3
Episode 47: True Colors
Episode 47: True Colors
Pantone’s color of the year, Time’s Person of the Year, Arrival, The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog, Seinf... Read more
15 Dec 2016
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30mins
Ranked #4
Episode 53: On Writing Well
Episode 53: On Writing Well
#trypod, Dan Brown cover contest, Design in Tech, writing for designers, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happe... Read more
30 Mar 2017
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34mins
Ranked #5
Episode 64: The Eye and the Storm
Episode 64: The Eye and the Storm
Hurricane Harvey, weather data visualization, electric cars, Taylor Swift, Scarfolk Council, the internet as an Uncanny ... Read more
31 Aug 2017
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31mins
Ranked #6
Food for Thought
Food for Thought
Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks
26 Aug 2016
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28mins
Ranked #7
Episode 54: Egos, Eggs, and Half an Onion
Episode 54: Egos, Eggs, and Half an Onion
Twitter’s default avatar, border wall submissions, Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad, School for Justice, the Uline catalog
13 Apr 2017
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32mins
Ranked #8
Doors and Perception
Doors and Perception
Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex
29 Sep 2016
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30mins
Ranked #9
Episode 62: Keepin’ It Nasty
Episode 62: Keepin’ It Nasty
Cursing, Anthony Scaramucci, the alt-right’s shit aesthetic, Tony Fadell and Silicon Valley regrets, John G. Morris, Don... Read more
3 Aug 2017
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30mins
Ranked #10
Episode 61: Font of Corruption?
Episode 61: Font of Corruption?
Pakistan, Donald Trump Jr., default fonts; Calibri, Courier, Hobo, Cooper Black; Silicon Valley corporate headquarters; ... Read more
20 Jul 2017
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33mins
Ranked #11
Episode 116: A Decade in Politics, A Year in Culture
Episode 116: A Decade in Politics, A Year in Culture
101 political images of 2010s; plus Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror; Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me; Beck’s Hyperspace; Unde... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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32mins
Ranked #12
Episode 75: Dressed and Obsessed
Episode 75: Dressed and Obsessed
Phantom Thread, John Perry Barlow, Cleveland Indians to retire Chief Wahoo, Obama portraits, riotous schnauzers
23 Feb 2018
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24mins
Ranked #13
Episode 55: Sea and Sky
Episode 55: Sea and Sky
Earth Day, the March for Science, EPA Graphic Standards Manual, Design and Exclusion, Big Little Lies, Five Came Back
27 Apr 2017
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32mins
Ranked #14
Episode 95: Back to Basics
Episode 95: Back to Basics
Distinctive brands choose minimalist logos, remembering David Pease, Nicholas Rougeux revives Byrne’s Euclid, The Favour... Read more
28 Dec 2018
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35mins
Ranked #15
Episode 115: Thick and Blunt
Episode 115: Thick and Blunt
Donald Trump’s handwriting; Michael Bloomberg, design patron; Jessica Helfand’s Face: A Visual Odyssey; Victor Papanek’s... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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28mins
Ranked #16
Episode 46: TV Party
Episode 46: TV Party
TV party: Search Party, The Crown, Fleabag, Crisis in Six Scenes, Highston, I Love Dick, Daniella Zalcman, the fallout s... Read more
1 Dec 2016
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35mins
Ranked #17
Episode 57: Communion and Commerce
Episode 57: Communion and Commerce
A record-breaking Basquiat; design, life coaching, and therapy; Thomas de Monchaux reviews Wendy Lesser’s biography of L... Read more
25 May 2017
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32mins
Ranked #18
Episode 67: Guns N’ Tote Bags
Episode 67: Guns N’ Tote Bags
Visualizing gun violence after Las Vegas, Louis Vuitton v. My Other Bag, tote bags, Helen Rosner on Olive Garden, Call M... Read more
13 Oct 2017
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33mins
Ranked #19
Episode 66: Ethics!
Episode 66: Ethics!
The Copenhagen Letter, Mike Monteiro’s Design the Right Thing, Branded by Memory, Google Quick, Draw!, Otl Aicher’s Isny... Read more
28 Sep 2017
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37mins
Ranked #20
Episode 104: Fade to White
Episode 104: Fade to White
Facebook’s redesign, Morning Edition’s new theme, Cris Shapan, Stanley Kubrick at the London Design Museum.
17 May 2019
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32mins