Roman Mars · Arts & Culture

99% Invisible

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.

Episodes

The integration of poetry into urban infrastructure transforms public spaces into sites of cultural reflection. In a plaza at Battery Park City, New York, lines from Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara are wrought directly into decorative metal fences, turning functional barriers into permanent, gilded literary displays. Thi...

Purple Reign

13 Jul 2012

19m

Kickstarter Video for Season 3 of 99% Invisible

12 Jul 2012

What Gave You That Idea

28 Jun 2012

14m

Frozen Music

14 Jun 2012

10m

The Best Beer in the World

31 May 2012

13m

The Colour of Money

16 May 2012

17m

The Xanadu Effect

01 May 2012

11m

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Large-scale architectural projects often embody a "Xanadu Effect," where grandiose construction serves as a precursor to economic decline or social detachment. This phenomenon, also known as the "skyscraper curse," is evidenced by the Empire State Building’s completion during the Great Depression and the NASDAQ’s recor...