Scratching the Surface
Hosted by Jarrett · Jarrett Fuller
4.8from 87 ratings
- 327
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 87
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Scratching the Surface
Scratching the Surface is a podcast about design, theory, and creative practice. Hosted by Jarrett Fuller, each episode features wide-ranging conversations with designers, architects, writers, academics, artists, and theorists about how design shapes culture. Previous guests include architecture critic Paul Goldberger, MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli, architect and OMA partner Reinier de Graaf, Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, RISD President Rosanne Somerson, writer Kurt Andersen, and designer Jessica Helfand. Featured in Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Curbed, and Eye. New episodes every other Wednesday.
- Publisher
- Jarrett Fuller
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2016
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 327 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
293. Graphic Designers After Graphic Design
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
292. Will Hunter
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
291. Rathna Ramanathan
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293. Graphic Designers After Graphic Design
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And The first sort of meaning of it, or my first kind of interpretation of it, is the sense that maybe graphic design as we know it doesn't exist anymore. Maybe the ways we think and talk and write and practice graphic design are a 20th century thing, are a field that has fragmented and that unifying term of graphic design no longer exists anymore. And so what does it mean to be a graphic designer if graphic design is over? What does it look like to still practice something called graphic design if that is a unifying field or discipline sort of no longer exists? So that's one meaning. That's sort of this idea that Maybe that term is no longer sufficient for the multitude of things that people can do under that. […]
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- Will Hunter
- Rathna Ramanathan
- Kurt Andersen
- Nicole Killian
- Willo Perron
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 56 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 31 ratings
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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