Jarrett Fuller

I’m the editor or co-editor of four books and from July 2020 to November 2022, I was a contributing editor for AIGA Eye on Design. I continue to commission and edit pieces for the Scratching the Surface website and work as a consulting editor on various book projects.

What It Means To Be a Designer Today (Princeton Architectural Press, 2024)

With Liz Stinson, I co-edited this collection of essays from the first ten years of AIGA's Eye on Design. Organized around the framework of moments, questions, and reflections, this book includes both previously published and original writing about the state of graphic design. Coming April 2024 from Princeton Architectural Press.

Preorder the book here.

Where Must Design Go Next? (Oro Editions, 2023)

A collection of roundtable conversations with the faculty of the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech about the future of design pedagogy, practice, and theory. This book is published jointly by Oro Editions and ID and results from my work as the 2022-23 Latham Fellow at ID.

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1, 10, 100 Years of Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parsons (Oro Editions, 2021)

In 2021, I worked with the Communication Design department at Parsons to edit this 400 page publication documenting the history of the program, organized around three distinct timescales: the last century, the last decade, and the last year. The book was released in February 2022 by Oro Editions

Buy the book here.

Culture is Not Always Popular (MIT Press, 2018)

I was the managing editor and designer for Culture is Not Always Popular, an anthology of writing from the first fifteen years of Design Observer.

Buy the book here.

October 27, 2022
The Y2K Aesthetic Is Fully Back — But Can It Stick Around?
Angelica Frey
AIGA Eye on Design
October 20, 2022
How Heart-Shaped Frames Became a Symbol of Reclaimed Femininity and a Non-Binary Fashion Staple
Nika Simovich Fischer
AIGA Eye on Design
September 22, 2022
Why Did So Many Mid-Century Designers Make Children's Books?
Milly Burroughs
AIGA Eye on Design
August 9, 2022
Here's Why John Updike Designed His Own Book Covers
Rachel Berger
AIGA Eye on Design
August 3, 2022
Here's a Thought: What If There Aren't Enough Serifs?
Angela Reichers
AIGA Eye on Design
July 21, 2022
Presenting Ange Degheest: Pioneering 20th-Century Female Type Designer
Angela Reichers
AIGA Eye on Design
July 13, 2022
Books Aren't Going Anywhere: A Roundtable Discussion on Publishing and Branding in the Age of Bookstagram
The Editors
AIGA Eye on Design
July 5, 2022
Typographically Nuanced, Research-Based, and Socially Driven: Inventory Press Share Their Favorite Books
The Editors
AIGA Eye on Design
June 22, 2022
Today's Design Is Shaped by Likes — and That's a Problem
Sahadeva Hammari
AIGA Eye on Design
June 9, 2022
In Memory of Colin Forbes, Celebrated Co-Founder of Pentagram
Michael Gericke
AIGA Eye on Design
May 10, 2022
Monospaced Fonts Glance in the Rearview Mirror, Then Look Towards the Future
Angela Riechers
AIGA Eye on Design
April 13, 2022
How Linked by Air Helped Cooper Hewitt Rethink Online Exhibitions
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
March 28, 2022
Early Web Design Helped a Generation Express Themselves
Nika Simovich Fisher
AIGA Eye on Design
March 14, 2022
Design Often Encourages the "White Default." How Can Designers Create More Inclusive Digital Interfaces?
Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah
AIGA Eye on Design
March 10, 2022
Ed Fella's Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art
Rick Poynor
AIGA Eye on Design
February 22, 2022
Lucky, Organic, Flexible, Speedy, Totally Crazy: What It's Like to Run an Independent Type Foundry
Angela Riechers
AIGA Eye on Design
January 25, 2022
Are Those Shapes Letters or Patterns? Letterform Variations Experiments With Both
Angela Riechers
AIGA Eye on Design
January 13, 2022
What the Think Pieces About "Corporate Memphis" Tell Us About the State of Illustration
Julien Posture
AIGA Eye on Design
January 3, 2022
What Designers, Educators, and Writers Want to See in 2022
The Editors
AIGA Eye on Design
December 20, 2021
The Best Fonts of 2021, As Chosen By Type Designers
Angela Reichers
AIGA Eye on Design
December 16, 2021
Bauhaus Typography Is More Complicated Than You Think
Madeleine Morley
AIGA Eye on Design
November 29, 2021
HORT's Eike König on Collaboration, Teaching, and Having Friends Who Aren't Designers
Lena Manger, Kevin Moll
AIGA Eye on Design
November 18, 2021
Machine Learning Has Already Transformed the Design Profession. How Do We Use It Ethically?
Helen Armstrong
AIGA Eye on Design
November 10, 2021
Adam Pendleton's Radical Typography as Protest
Marcus Civin
AIGA Eye on Design
October 27, 2021
The History Books Often Overlook Women in Design. A New One Seeks to Finally Give Them Their Due
Briar Levit
AIGA Eye on Design
October 18, 2021
Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas Anticipated the Age of Infographics
Lisa Jayne Willard
AIGA Eye on Design
September 23, 2021
In CAPS LOCK, Ruben Pater Untangles the Relationship Between Graphic Design and Capitalism
Chris Westcott
AIGA Eye on Design
September 9, 2021
The Extreme Self Uses Internet Aesthetics to Make Sense of Life Online
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
September 7, 2021
Adelbrook, a Font Where 15th- and 21st-Century Type Styles Collide
Angela Reichers
AIGA Eye on Design
September 2, 2021
IBM Perfected the Art of the Anti-corporate Corporate Poster
Shea Tillman, Robert Finkel
AIGA Eye on Design
August 31, 2021
Do Gender-Neutral Pronouns Need Their Own Glyphs?
Angela Reichers
AIGA Eye on Design
August 12, 2021
The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland's First Things First Manifesto
Rick Poynor
AIGA Eye on Design
July 14, 2021
How Do You Get Into Tech? Recent Graduates Talk About The Portfolios That Got Them Jobs
Rachel Berger
AIGA Eye on Design
July 6, 2021
How Type Designers are Digitizing and Preserving Cyrillic Typefaces in Serbia
Nika Simovich Fisher
AIGA Eye on Design
June 23, 2021
Pioneer Works Is Rethinking What Online Cultural Programming Looks Like
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
June 14, 2021
Ontological Design Has Become Influential In Design Academia – But What Is It?
JP Hartnett
AIGA Eye on Design
June 9, 2021
Ken Garland Was Graphic Design's Moral Compass
Theo Inglis
AIGA Eye on Design
June 7, 2021
Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
June 3, 2021
This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made
Ryan Mungia
AIGA Eye on Design
May 19, 2021
Designer Yannis Karlopoulos's Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
May 12, 2021
How Sanctuary Computer Uses Transparency to Make a Better Workplace
Leo Shaw
AIGA Eye on Design
May 3, 2021
How a Trio of Architects Made the Image That Predicted Reality Television, Fake News, and Viral Memes
Steve Seid
AIGA Eye on Design
April 19, 2021
The People's Graphic Design Archive Is Rethinking How We Talk About Design History
Ryan Mungia
AIGA Eye on Design
April 7, 2021
Porto's São João National Theater Offers a Lesson in Design as Public Service
Francisco Laranjo
AIGA Eye on Design
April 6, 2021
Why Chromeo's Juliet Records Commissioned Their Own Corporate Typeface
Renee Elizabeth Clarke
AIGA Eye on Design
March 23, 2021
Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written
Meg Miller
AIGA Eye on Design
March 11, 2021
Publishing Will Not Be Another Victim of the Pandemic
Rachel Berger, Mary Banas
AIGA Eye on Design
February 24, 2021
How Printed Matter Took Its Art Book Fair Online
George Kafka
AIGA Eye on Design
February 23, 2021
Columba is a New Typeface That is Both Utterly Beautiful and Utterly Boring
Robin Rendle
AIGA Eye on Design
January 18, 2021
The CIA Has Always Understood the Power of Graphic Design
Theo Inglis
AIGA Eye on Design
January 11, 2021
The Overlooked Career of Mid-Century Designer, Artist, and Teacher Norman Ives
Theo Inglis
AIGA Eye on Design
January 4, 2021
What Leading Designers, Educators, and Writers Want to See in 2021
AIGA Eye on Design
November 23, 2020
The Pin-back Button Was A Place for Self Expression Before Social Media
Christen Carter, Tom Hake
AIGA Eye on Design
November 18, 2020
When the USPS Is In Trouble, Artists and Designers Create Grassroots Efforts to Help
Nika Simovich Fisher
AIGA Eye on Design
September 23, 2020
The History of Ballot Design is the History of Democracy
Alicia Cheng
AIGA Eye on Design