99% Invisible

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n

Episodes

Total: 730

The Man of Tomorrow

2013/6/20

I’m willing to concede from the get-go that I might be wrong about the entire premise of this story,

There’s something about rebar that fascinates me. If nothing else because there are very few things

An Architect’s Code

2013/5/28

Lawyers have an ethics code. Journalists have an ethics code. Architects do, too. According to Ethic

For the ancient Greeks, sirens were mythical creatures who sang out to passing sailors from rocks in

No Armed Bandit

2013/4/30

Americans have always had an uneasy relationship with gambling. To circumvent anti-gambling laws in

Game Changer

2013/4/15

Regardless of how you feel about basketball, you’ve got to appreciate the way it can bring groups of

The Modern Moloch

2013/4/4

On the streets of early 20th Century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsib

Secret Staircases

2013/3/21

Wherever there is sufficient demand to move between two points of differing elevation, there are sta

Hand Painted Signs

2013/3/8

There was a time when every street sign, every billboard, and every window display was made by a sig

There comes a time in the life of a modern city where it begins to grow up–literally. Santiago, the

New Old Town

2013/2/5

Like many cities in Central Europe, Warsaw is made up largely of grey, ugly, communist block-style a

In and Out of LOVE

2013/1/23

Though its officially name is JFK Plaza, the open space near Philadelphia’s City Hall is more common

When Eric Molinsky lived in Los Angeles, he kept hearing this story about a bygone transportation sy

If you’re not from California, or missed this bit of news, the University of California has a new lo

Built for Speed

2012/12/12

I want you to conjure an image in your mind of the white stripes that divide the lanes of traffic go

Broken Window

2012/11/29

When Melissa Lee was growing up in Hastings-on-Hudson, a small town in upstate New York, there were

Kowloon Walled City

2012/11/19

Kowloon Walled City was the densest place in the world, ever. By its peak in the 1990s, the 6.5 acre

Razzle Dazzle

2012/11/5

When most people think of camouflage they think of blending in with the environment, but camouflage

Derelict Dome

2012/10/25

In the Cape Cod town of Woods Hole, buildings are not usually dome-shaped. Producer Katie Klocksin w

The Political Stage

2012/10/12

On this special edition of 99% Invisible, we joined forces with Andrea Seabrook of DecodeDC to inves