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Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
Episode 292
Cartoonist and theorist Scott McCloud has been making and thinking about comics for decades. He is the author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible …
8 years, 1 month ago
Thermal Delight
Episode 291
When air conditioning was invented in 1902, it was designed to take out the humidity in the air so printers could run four color magazines, without t…
8 years, 1 month ago
Mini-Stories: Volume 4
Episode 290
This part two of the 2017/2018 mini-stories episodes, where Roman interviews the staff and our collaborators about their favorite little design stori…
8 years, 2 months ago
Biomimicry- Vox + 99% Invisible Video
Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour. It did…
8 years, 2 months ago
Mini-Stories: Volume 3
Episode 289
It’s the end of the year and time for our annual Mini-stories episodes. Mini-stories are quick hit stories that were maybe pitched to us from someone…
8 years, 2 months ago
Guerrilla Public Service Redux
Episode 288
In the early morning of August 5, 2001, artist Richard Ankrom and a group of friends assembled on the 4th Street bridge over the 110 freeway in Los A…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Nut Behind the Wheel
Episode 287
In the past fifty years, the car crash death rate has dropped by nearly 80 percent in the United States. And one of the reasons for that drop has to …
8 years, 3 months ago
A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
Episode 286
While the 1960s shift in print and TV advertising has been heavily documented and mythologized by Mad Men, Madison Avenue’s radiophonic collision wit…
8 years, 3 months ago
Money Makers
Episode 285
For a long time, anti-counterfeiting laws made it illegal to show US currency in movies. Now you can show real money, but fake money is often preferr…
8 years, 3 months ago
Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television
Episode 284
When a new movie comes out, most of the praise goes to the director and the lead actors, but there are so many other people involved in a film, and a…
8 years, 3 months ago