The Monthly Dispatch

October 2026: Graphic Designers After Graphic Design

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

9 hrs ago

September 2026: Back to School!

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

Sep 7

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

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

Aug 3

July 2026: The Power of Print

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

Jul 6

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

May 2026: It's time to redesign design

Experimental galleries, climate change, non-profits, the relationship between design and pedagogy, + more.

May 4

April 2026: Design from the in-between

A series of conversations about multi/trans/anti-disciplinary practices and what that means for design and culture.

Apr 6

March 2026: Food, Fiction, and Clear Sense of Purpose

Plus stories about an 18th century playwright and architect, a book about signs, and visiting Chicago.

Mar 2

February 2026: CCA Closes, The importance of making, the relationship between music and design

Plus conversations about short books on architecture and ten years of NY-based PAU.

Feb 2

January 2026: Better design writing, Designers on Sofas, and New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year!

Jan 5

December 2025: The Invention of Design, The Intelligence of Water, The Venice Biennale

This month we had conversations about design history and architectural intelligence and published stories about experimental graphic design and what we…

Dec 1, 2025

November 2025: Podcasts for People and Plants

Plus, my new essay on Bruno Munari, mapping architecture discourse, and a handful of new books that arrived in the studio.

Nov 3, 2025

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