Jarrett Fuller

I’ve written for a variety of publications about design, culture, and criticism, including Eye on Design, Design and Culture, Design Observer, Journal of Design History, Fast Company, and for the last fifteen years, my own blog.

From July 2020 to November 2022, I was a contributing editor for AIGA Eye on Design.

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.

Criticism/Reviews

October 2022
After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy (Book review)
Journal of Design History
April 2022
The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design (Book review)
Design and Culture
January 2020
Netflix keeps design ‘Abstract’
jarrettfuller.blog
September 2019
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
jarrettfuller.blog
September 2019
Words and Works (On Henry Cobb)
Design Observer
July 2019
Tourist/Purist (On Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech)
jarrettfuller.blog
June 2019
Human Archipelago by Fazal Sheik and Teju Cole
jarrettfuller.blog
June 2019
The surprising empathy of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
jarrettfuller.blog

Journalism

August 2022
Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”
Eye on Design
July 2021
How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design
Eye on Design
May 2021
Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of
Eye on Design
April 2021
Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But At What Cost?
Eye on Design
January 2021
Isometric Studio is Rethinking What it Means to Design for Social Good
Eye on Design
December 2020
As Social Media Reshapes Branding, Retail Stores Become More Like Sponsored Content
Eye on Design
July 2020
Design Criticism Is Everywhere—Why Are We Still Looking For It?
Eye on Design
July 2020
Matt Willey and Dan Crowe Launch INQUE, an Independent Lit Mag in it for the Long-game
Eye on Design

Opinion

November 2022
The Best Design Books of 2022
Fast Company
June 2022
Is There a Difference Between a Cult and a Brand?
Eye on Design
December 2021
The Best Design Books of 2021
Eye on Design
January 2021
On presence
Design Observer
October 2020
When Did Design Stop Being “Multidisciplinary?”
Eye on Design
September 2020
Every Act of Design is an Act of Future-making
Eye on Design
July 2019
Against Design?
Design Observer
March 2019
AppleTV+ and HBO vs. Netflix
jarrettfuller.blog
January 2019
Conan, Late Night Talk Shows, and Multi-platform comedy
jarrettfuller.blog
October 2018
Celebrity designers, context collapse, and rethinking how we teach design history
jarrettfuller.blog
April 2017
How do we get the most out of design criticism?
100Archive
July 2016
The Myth of Neutrality
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Interviews

August 2022
Open Manifesto—the Quiet but Persistent Australian Design Journal—Was Ahead of Its Time
Eye on Design
July 2022
“Books Aren’t Going Anywhere”: A Roundtable Discussion on Publishing and Branding in the Age of Bookstagram
Eye on Design
June 2022
Designing the Invisible: MACK’s Morgan Crowcroft-Brown on the Understated Art of the Photo Book
Eye on Design
May 2022
Belgian Graphic Design Is a “Crossroads of Influences”: Sara De Bondt
Eye on Design
February 2022
Teaching Design is Teaching a Moving Target: An Interview with Lucille Tenazas
Eye on Design
February 2019
A Conversation with Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand
MIT Press
March 2017
Experimental Jetset
Scratching the Surface