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Concrete Furniture
Episode 17
The New City Hall, designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, was the first modern, concrete, civic building in Toronto. When it opened in 1965, it …
15 years, 4 months ago
A Designed Language
Episode 16
The idea is simple and quite beautiful: if we all shared a second, politically neutral language, people of all different nations and cultures could c…
15 years, 4 months ago
Sounds of the Artificial World
Episode 15
Without all the beeps and chimes, without sonic feedback, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use. If a device and its sounds are d…
15 years, 5 months ago
Periodic Table
Episode 14
Everyone knows it when they see it. The classic “castle with turrets” periodic table is a beautiful and concise icon that contains a great deal of am…
15 years, 5 months ago
Game Over (Snap Judgment)
99% Invisible Extra! The tape rolls as we witness the tearful end of a perfect online world. This is a piece I did for Snap Judgment, based on a stor…
15 years, 6 months ago
13- Maps
Episode 13
I’m sorry, but if you don’t love maps, I don’t think we can be friends anymore. Maps are amazing. They are art and story. A representation of where w…
15 years, 7 months ago
99% Guilt Free
Episode 12
“Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating the negative …
15 years, 7 months ago
99% Undesigned
Episode 11
Almost everything in modern life is designed to waste energy. The whole system evolved on a false premise that petroleum is cheap and plentiful and w…
15 years, 7 months ago
99% Sound and Feel
Episode 10
Chris Downey explains it like this, “Beethoven continued to write music, even some of his best music, after he lost his hearing…What’s more preposter…
15 years, 7 months ago
One Way Ticket To Mars
99% Invisible Extra! NASA is figuring out how to take the next great leap into space. The difficulty is, if we leap to Mars, we might not make it bac…
15 years, 8 months ago