September 2026: Back to School!

Conversations about the state of design education kick off the new season of pod!

Sep 7

Central Saint Martins Provost Rathna Ramanathan on rethinking the foundations of art and design education

A conversation about how CSM restructured their program for the future of art and design education.

Sep 2

August 2026

Back to (art) school with Rachel Berger

A conversation with CalArts’s Vice Provost about art and design education today.

Aug 26

August 2026: Anti-Fascist Architecture, Dallas, Design Workshops, and Calder Gardens

Plus, I was interviewed on the Chicago Design Club podcast!

Aug 3

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July 2026

James Dyer and Nick Deakin on Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops

The edited collection is “not a book of fixed methods but prompts to embrace an endlessly shifting terrain.”

Jul 20

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Another Architecture is Probable

An except from a new book by Daniel Jonas Roche and Andrew Santa Lucia on antifascist architecture.

Jul 17

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Mark Lamster on what Dallas can teach us about the American City

The Pulitzer-winning Dallas Morning News architecture critic thinks Dallas hold lessons for all of us.

Jul 13

July 2026: The Power of Print

Plus a special roundup of architectural reviews of the Obama Presidential Center

Jul 6

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June 2026

How Books Built Bjarke’s Brand

On the occasion of the Danish architecture firm BIG's new monograph, a look back on their previous books and the brand they cultivated.

Jun 22

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How Robin Sloan is using printing to critique this current tech moment

The novelist and “creative industrialist” on manufacturing, AI, and how he's using printing to show another way forward.

Jun 12

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June 2026: Data Viz Month!

We hosted a series of conversation about the politics of information design, the history of the diagram, and data humanism.

Jun 1

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May 2026

Giorgia Lupi wants more people to speak data

The Pentagram partner and information designer on the evolution of how we talk about data and how COVID-19 changed how she thought about her work.

May 27

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