Scratching the Surface
Jarrett FullerA podcast and publishing platform about design, theory, and creative practice.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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How Robin Sloan is using printing to critique this current tech moment
The novelist and “creative industrialist” on manufacturing, AI, and how he's using printing to show another way forward.
Robin Sloan (episode 90) is known, primarily, as a novelist. His first novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, was re...
June 2026: Data Viz Month!
In May, we talked with Studio Folder co-founder and information designer Marco Ferrari about the politics of data visualization and data designer and Pentagram Partner Giorgia Lupi about data as a language.
EDITOR’S NOTE
When I wa...
Giorgia Lupi wants more people to speak data
290. Giorgia Lupi
Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and partner at Pentagram. Her work synthesizes data and storytelling for clients such as Google, IBM, Gates Foundation, and the New York Times. She’s the author of Speak Data wi...
Discussing OMA’s Diagrams with Fondazione Prada’s Mario Mainetti
Welcome to the first edition of Book Review, a new monthly column from Scratching the Surface on books in and around design, architecture, and culture. Each month, we’ll do a deep dive into a new book or publication, either in the form of a...
Marco Ferrari on the politics of information design
289. Marco Ferrari
Marco Ferrari is the co-founder of Studio Folder, an agency for visual design and spatial research based in Milan, and the head of the Information Design program at Design Academy Eindhoven. His work focuses on infor...
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