Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
682 episodes transcribedEnron collapsed nearly 20 years ago, but chances are something you use today was affected by emails sent by 150 of the company's top employees. These...
Geocities was an online collection of metropolises, each with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests. The city metaphor helped make a w...
During publicity interviews for The 99% Invisible City someone asked us, “What is your favorite way to experience the city?” The answer is walking. If...
This bonus episode is sponsored by Google’s Next Billion User Initiative. Every week millions of people come online for the very first time. And every...
In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the game. Teams and players would try all kinds of tricks to get a glimpse...
When we think about carbon storage, we tend to think about forests, but peatlands are also incredible carbon sinks. In Europe, peatlands contain five...
We're excited to celebrate the release of The 99% Invisible City book by host Roman Mars and producer Kurt Kohlstedt with a guided audio tour of beaut...
The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library children's reading room and the beloved children’s classic Goodnight Moon. Goo...
An address is something many people take for granted today, but they are in fact a fairly recent invention that has shaped our cities and taken on gre...
Icons and symbols and signage are all around us, and nowhere more so than on the open road. So for this episode of Ubiquitous Icons: hop in the car wi...
There have been many waves of panic and resistance to new people moving into the public sphere and needing accommodation. And a focus of that panic ha...
After the 1970s oil crisis, the global economy went into a recession. American unemployment hit 11 percent. And suddenly, middle-class families didn’t...
Winifred Gallagher, author of How the Post Office Created America argues that the post office is not simply an inexpensive way to send a letter. The s...
Before the twentieth century, most Americans rarely came into contact with police officers. But with more and more drivers behind the wheel, police de...
Walter Thompson-Hernandez was just eleven years old when he was admitted to L.A.'s infamous Scared Straight program for graffiti related crimes. In th...
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away. B...
When Emily Oberman found a flag of the island nation of Anguilla her father had helped design in her attic, she had no idea it was connected to one of...
There are many books about McDonald’s that criticize the company for its many sins, and author Marcia Chatelain has read all of them. But her book com...
One night halfway through a graveyard shift at the hospital, orderly John Moon watched as two young men burst through the doors. They were working des...
All across the country, protestors have been tearing down old monuments. These monuments have been falling in the middle of historic protests against...
