99% Invisible

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199- The Yin and Yang of Basketball 00:00 Tools
160- Perfect Security 00:00 Tools
198- The Ice King 00:00 Tools
186- War and Pizza 00:00 Tools
201- The Green Book 00:00 Tools
168- All In Your Head 00:00 Tools
163- The Gruen Effect 00:00 Tools
164- The Post-Billiards Age 00:00 Tools
166- Viva La Arquitectura! 00:00 Tools
202- Mojave Phone Booth 00:00 Tools
196- The Fresno Drop 00:00 Tools
197- Fish Cannon 00:00 Tools
165- The Nutshell Studies 00:00 Tools
161- Show of Force 00:00 Tools
159- The Calendar 00:00 Tools
183- Dead Letter Office 00:00 Tools
195- Best Enjoyed By 00:00 Tools
205- Flying Food 00:00 Tools
181- Milk Carton Kids 00:00 Tools
167- Voices in the Wire 00:00 Tools
170- Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1) 00:00 Tools
162- Mystery House 00:00 Tools
203- The Giftschrank 00:00 Tools
194- Bone Music 00:00 Tools
200- Miss Manhattan 00:00 Tools
147- Penn Station Sucks 00:00 Tools
171- Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, Pt. 2) 00:00 Tools
204- The SoHo Effect 00:00 Tools
191- Worst Smell in the World 00:00 Tools
169- Freud’s Couch 00:00 Tools
177- Lawn Order 00:00 Tools
172- On Location 00:00 Tools
182- A Sweet Surprise Awaits You 00:00 Tools
188- Fountain Drinks 00:00 Tools
178- The Great Restoration 00:00 Tools
189- The Landlord’s Game 00:00 Tools
175- The Sunshine Hotel 00:00 Tools
180- Reefer Madness 00:00 Tools
174- From the Sea, Freedom 00:00 Tools
143- Inflatable Men 00:00 Tools
148- The Sizzle 00:00 Tools
173- Awareness 00:00 Tools
158- Sandhogs 00:00 Tools
193- Tube Benders 00:00 Tools
287- The Nut Behind the Wheel 00:00 Tools
325- The Worst Way to Start a City 00:00 Tools
144- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 00:00 Tools
192- Pagodas and Dragon Gates 00:00 Tools
185- Atmospherians 00:00 Tools
157- Devil’s Rope 00:00 Tools
130- Holdout 00:00 Tools
206- The White Elephant Of Tel Aviv 00:00 Tools
285- Money Makers 00:00 Tools
187- Butterfly Effects 00:00 Tools
152- Guerrilla Public Service 00:00 Tools
179- Bathysphere 00:00 Tools
190- Fixing the Hobo Suit 00:00 Tools
208- Vox Ex Machina 00:00 Tools
184- Rajneeshpuram 00:00 Tools
149- Of Mice And Men 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-01- 99% Noise 00:00 Tools
54- The Colour of Money (R) 00:00 Tools
154- PDX Carpet 00:00 Tools
150- Under The Moonlight 00:00 Tools
153- Game Over (R) 00:00 Tools
155- Palm Reading 00:00 Tools
274- The Age of the Algorithm 00:00 Tools
300- Airships and the Future that Never Was 00:00 Tools
156- Coin Check 00:00 Tools
207- Soul City 00:00 Tools
281- La Sagrada Familia 00:00 Tools
151- La Mascotte 00:00 Tools
298- Fordlandia 00:00 Tools
110- Structural Integrity (Rebroadcast) 00:00 Tools
296- Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1) 00:00 Tools
313- Right to Roam 00:00 Tools
209- Supertall 101 00:00 Tools
145- Octothorpe 00:00 Tools
146- Mooallempalooza 00:00 Tools
284- Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television 00:00 Tools
280- Half Measures 00:00 Tools
332- The Accidental Room 00:00 Tools
309- The Vault 00:00 Tools
329- Orphan Drugs 00:00 Tools
276- The Finnish Experiment 00:00 Tools
322- The First Straw 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-28- Movie Title Sequences 00:00 Tools
299- Gerrymandering 00:00 Tools
302- Lessons from Las Vegas 00:00 Tools
304- Gander International Airport 00:00 Tools
295- Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar 00:00 Tools
319- It's Chinatown 00:00 Tools
Pockets: Articles of Interest #3 00:00 Tools
216- The Blazer Experiment 00:00 Tools
305- The Laff Box 00:00 Tools
303- The Hair Chart 00:00 Tools
Kids' Clothes: Articles of Interest #1 00:00 Tools
219- Unpleasant Design 00:00 Tools
266- Repackaging the Pill 00:00 Tools
277- Ponte City Tower 00:00 Tools
316- The Shipping Forecast 00:00 Tools
324- Billboard Boys: The Greatest Radio Contest of All Time 00:00 Tools
213- Separation Anxiety 00:00 Tools
256- Sounds Natural 00:00 Tools
279- The Containment Plan 00:00 Tools
210- Unseen City 00:00 Tools
311- The Barney Design 00:00 Tools
314- Interrobang 00:00 Tools
306- Breaking Bad News 00:00 Tools
271- The Great Dismal Swamp 00:00 Tools
291- Thermal Delight 00:00 Tools
257- Reversing the Grid 00:00 Tools
301- Making it Rain 00:00 Tools
282- Oyster-tecture 00:00 Tools
237- Dollar Store Town 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-02- 99% 180 00:00 Tools
142- And The Winner Is 00:00 Tools
321- Double Standards 00:00 Tools
323- The House that Came in the Mail 00:00 Tools
238- NBC Chimes 00:00 Tools
317- Built to Burn 00:00 Tools
312- Post-Narco Urbanism 00:00 Tools
272- Person in Lotus Position 00:00 Tools
292- Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud 00:00 Tools
Hawaiian Shirts: Articles of Interest #4 00:00 Tools
212- Turf Wars of East New York 00:00 Tools
124- Longbox 00:00 Tools
308- Curb Cuts 00:00 Tools
307- Immobile Homes 00:00 Tools
217- Home on Lagrange 00:00 Tools
328- Devolutionary Design 00:00 Tools
214- Loud and Clear 00:00 Tools
251- Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut 00:00 Tools
330- Raccoon Resistance 00:00 Tools
326- Welcome to Jurassic Art 00:00 Tools
Plaid: Articles of Interest #2 00:00 Tools
220- The Mind of an Architect 00:00 Tools
254- Containers 00:00 Tools
290- Mini-Stories: Volume 4 00:00 Tools
270- The Stethoscope 00:00 Tools
224- A Sea Worth its Salt 00:00 Tools
278- The Athletic Brassiere 00:00 Tools
258- The Modern Necropolis 00:00 Tools
335- Gathering the Magic 00:00 Tools
318- Fire and Rain 00:00 Tools
221- America’s Last Top Model 00:00 Tools
Radiotopia Forever- Coin Check 00:00 Tools
340- The Secret Lives of Color 00:00 Tools
275- Coal Hogs Work Safe 00:00 Tools
268- El Gordo 00:00 Tools
273- Notes on an Imagined Plaque 00:00 Tools
226- On Average 00:00 Tools
320- Bundyville 00:00 Tools
Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5 00:00 Tools
215- H-Day 00:00 Tools
243- Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle 00:00 Tools
211- The Grand Dame of Broad Street 00:00 Tools
252- The Falling of the Lenins 00:00 Tools
264- Mexico 68 00:00 Tools
248- Atom in the Garden of Eden 00:00 Tools
297- Blood, Sweat and Tears (City of the Future, Part 2) 00:00 Tools
283- Dollhouses of St. Louis 00:00 Tools
245- The Eponymist 00:00 Tools
225- Photo Credit 00:00 Tools
331- Oñate's Foot 00:00 Tools
223- The Magic Bureaucrat 00:00 Tools
255- The Architect of Hollywood 00:00 Tools
236- Reverb 00:00 Tools
176- Hard to Love a Brute 00:00 Tools
327- A Year in the Dark 00:00 Tools
289- Mini-Stories: Volume 3 00:00 Tools
244- The Revolutionary Post 00:00 Tools
341- National Sword 00:00 Tools
337- Atomic Tattoos 00:00 Tools
310- 77 Steps 00:00 Tools
286- A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream 00:00 Tools
Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6 00:00 Tools
288- Guerrilla Public Service Redux 00:00 Tools
261- Squatters of the Lower East Side 00:00 Tools
229- The Trend Forecast 00:00 Tools
269- Ways of Hearing 00:00 Tools
233- Space Trash, Space Treasure 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-03- 99% Reality (only) 00:00 Tools
333- Mini-Stories: Volume 5 00:00 Tools
339- The Tunnel 00:00 Tools
315- Everything is Alive 00:00 Tools
246- Usonia 1 00:00 Tools
346- Palaces for the People 00:00 Tools
253- Manzanar 00:00 Tools
338- Crude Habitat 00:00 Tools
345- Classic Cartoon Sound Effects! 00:00 Tools
263- You Should Do a Story 00:00 Tools
232- McMansion Hell 00:00 Tools
260- New Jersey 00:00 Tools
222- Combat Hearing Loss 00:00 Tools
342- Beneath the Ballpark 00:00 Tools
240- Plat of Zion 00:00 Tools
138- O-U-I-J-A 00:00 Tools
262- In the Same Ballpark 00:00 Tools
227- Public Works 00:00 Tools
128- Hacking IKEA 00:00 Tools
218- Remembering Stonewall 00:00 Tools
249- Church (Sanctuary, Part 1) 00:00 Tools
230- Project Cybersyn 00:00 Tools
247- Usonia the Beautiful 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-04- 99% Details 00:00 Tools
348- Three Things That Made the Modern Economy 00:00 Tools
241- Mini-Stories: Volume 1 00:00 Tools
267- The Trials of Dan and Dave 00:00 Tools
265- The Pool and the Stream 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-05- 99% Forgotten 00:00 Tools
228- Making Up Ground 00:00 Tools
234- The Shift 00:00 Tools
235- Ten Letters for the President 00:00 Tools
139- Edge of Your Seat 00:00 Tools
201- The Green Book redux 00:00 Tools
231- Half a House 00:00 Tools
293- Managed Retreat 00:00 Tools
140- Vexillonaire 00:00 Tools
239- Guano Island 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-54- The Colour of Money 00:00 Tools
200- Miss Manhattan Redux 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-08- 99% Free Parking 00:00 Tools
242- Mini-Stories: Volume 2 00:00 Tools
108- Barcodes 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-07- 99% Alien 00:00 Tools
336- Mini-Stories: Volume 6 00:00 Tools
133- Port of Dallas 00:00 Tools
334- Christmas with The Allusionist 00:00 Tools
141- Three Records from Sundown 00:00 Tools
294- Border Wall 00:00 Tools
137- Good Bread 00:00 Tools
135- For Amusement Only 00:00 Tools
344- The Known Unknown 00:00 Tools
134- The Straight Line Is A Godless Line 00:00 Tools
250- State (Sanctuary, Part 2) 00:00 Tools
132- Castle on the Park 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-06- 99% Symbolic 00:00 Tools
369- Wait Wait...Tell Me! 00:00 Tools
127- The Sound of Sports 00:00 Tools
103- UTBAPH 00:00 Tools
131- Genesis Object 00:00 Tools
121- Cold War Kids 00:00 Tools
361- Built on Sand 00:00 Tools
126- Walk This Way 00:00 Tools
114- Ten Thousand Years 00:00 Tools
Roman Mars on ZigZag 00:00 Tools
115- Cow Tunnels 00:00 Tools
129- Thomassons 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-09- 99% Private 00:00 Tools
93- Revolving Doors 00:00 Tools
349- Froebel's Gifts 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-09X-99% Doomed 00:00 Tools
102- Icon for Access 00:00 Tools
136- Lights Out 00:00 Tools
259- This Is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-12- 99% Guilt Free 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-13x-Game Over (Snap Judgment) 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-29- Cul de Sac 00:00 Tools
351- Play Mountain 00:00 Tools
347- The Many Deaths of a Painting 00:00 Tools
359- Life and Death in Singapore 00:00 Tools
94- Unbuilt 00:00 Tools
95- Future Screens are Mostly Blue 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-14- Periodic Table 00:00 Tools
Sound and Health: Cities 00:00 Tools
352- Uptown Squirrel 00:00 Tools
116- Breaking the Bank 00:00 Tools
356- The Automat 00:00 Tools
372- The Help-Yourself City 00:00 Tools
343- Usonia Redux 00:00 Tools
368- All Rings Considered 00:00 Tools
80- An Architect’s Code 00:00 Tools
106- The Fancy Shape 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-17- Concrete Furniture 00:00 Tools
117- Clean Trains 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-24- The Capitol Columns 00:00 Tools
110- Structural Integrity 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-13- Maps 00:00 Tools
105- One Man is An Island 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-11- 99% Undesigned 00:00 Tools
379- Cautionary Tales 00:00 Tools
360- The Universal Page 00:00 Tools
76- The Modern Moloch 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-10- 99% Sound and Feel 00:00 Tools
109- Title TK 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-18- Check Cashing Stores 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-27- Bridge to the Sky 00:00 Tools
104- Tunnel 57 00:00 Tools
Video- The Norman Door with Vox 00:00 Tools
89- Bubble Houses 00:00 Tools
366- Model City 00:00 Tools
362- Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Twine 00:00 Tools
363- Invisible Women 00:00 Tools
Bonus Episode- Avery talks Articles of Interest with Roman 00:00 Tools
353- From Bombay with Love 00:00 Tools
123- Snowflake 00:00 Tools
125- Duplitecture 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-26- Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-49- Queue Theory and Design 00:00 Tools
378- Ubiquitous Icons: Peace, Power, and Happiness 00:00 Tools
374- Unsure Footing 00:00 Tools
371- Dead Cars 00:00 Tools
365- On Beeing 00:00 Tools
100- Higher And Higher 00:00 Tools
111- Masters of the Uni-verse 00:00 Tools
122- Good Egress 00:00 Tools
92- All the Buildings 00:00 Tools
85- Noble Effort 00:00 Tools
119- Feet of Engineering 00:00 Tools
120- Skyjacking 00:00 Tools
77- Game Changer 00:00 Tools
97- Numbers Stations 00:00 Tools
81- Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-30- The Blue Yarn 00:00 Tools
354- Weeding is Fundamental 00:00 Tools
367- Peace Lines 00:00 Tools
78- No Armed Bandit 00:00 Tools
112- Young Ruin 00:00 Tools
82- The Man of Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
83- Heyoon 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-32- Design for Airports 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-37- The Steering Wheel 00:00 Tools
88- The Broadcast Clock 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-15- Sounds of the Artificial World 00:00 Tools
87- I Heart NY, TM 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-41- The Human-Human Interface 00:00 Tools
118- Song Exploder 00:00 Tools
96- DIY Space Suit 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-42- Recognizably Anonymous 00:00 Tools
90- Strowger and Purple Reign Redux 00:00 Tools
373- The Kirkbride Plan 00:00 Tools
86- Reversal of Fortune 00:00 Tools
Intro to a new Roman Mars podcast: What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-16- A Designed Language 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-22- Free Speech Monument 00:00 Tools
107- Call Now 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-56- Frozen Music 00:00 Tools
350- The Roman Mars Mazda Virus 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-23- You Are Listening To + Radio Net 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-47- US Postal Service Stamps 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-44- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-21- BLDGBLOG: On Sound 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-34- The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-53- The Xanadu Effect 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-20- Nikko Concrete Commando 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-31- Feltron Annual Report 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-38- Sound of Sport 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-55- The Best Beer in the World 00:00 Tools
377- How To Pick A Pepper 00:00 Tools
364- He's Still Neutral 00:00 Tools
355- Depave Paradise 00:00 Tools
79- The Symphony of Sirens plus Soviet Design 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-50- DeafSpace 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-36- Super Bon Bonn 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-52- Galloping Gertie 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll 00:00 Tools
358- The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:00 Tools
380- Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl 00:00 Tools
376- Great Bitter Lake Association 00:00 Tools
101- Cover Story 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-19X- RJDJ Reactive Music 00:00 Tools
99- The View From The 79th Floor 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-19- Liberation Squares plus NY Dick 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-40- Billy Possum 00:00 Tools
113- Monumental Dilemma 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-45- Immersive Ideal 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-46- Vulcanite Dentures 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-35- Elegy for WTC 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-57- What Gave You That Idea 00:00 Tools
Sound and Health: Hospitals 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-39X- The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-51- The Arsenal of Exclusion 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-43- Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators 00:00 Tools
91- Wild Ones Live 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible presents What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-66- Kowloon Walled City 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-48- The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-61- A Series of Tubes 00:00 Tools
84- Ode to Ladislav Sutnar plus Trading Places with Planet Money 00:00 Tools
370- The Pool and the Stream Redux 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-60- Names vs The Nothing 00:00 Tools
98- Six Stories- the memory palace 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-74- Hand Painted Signs 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-75- Secret Staircases 00:00 Tools
381- The Infantorium 00:00 Tools
375- Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-62- Q2 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-59- Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-63- The Political Stage 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-64- Derelict Dome 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-69- The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-72- New Old Town 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-65- Razzle Dazzle 00:00 Tools
357- The Barney Design redux 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-60b- BackStory- Heyward Shepherd Memorial 00:00 Tools
91x- Always Read the Plaque- Kickstarter Announcement 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-58- Purple Reign 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-70- The Great Red Car Conspiracy 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-68- Built for Speed 00:00 Tools
32- Design for Airports 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-71- In and Out of LOVE 00:00 Tools
75- Secret Staircases 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-60a- Two Storeys 00:00 Tools
34- The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids 00:00 Tools
99% Invisible-67- Broken Window 00:00 Tools
55- The Best Beer in the World 00:00 Tools
70- The Great Red Car Conspiracy 00:00 Tools
05- 99% Forgotten 00:00 Tools
02- 99% 180 00:00 Tools
49- Queue Theory and Design 00:00 Tools
01- 99% Noise 00:00 Tools
28- Movie Title Sequences 00:00 Tools
41- The Human-Human Interface 00:00 Tools
66- Kowloon Walled City 00:00 Tools
VIDEO- Why Danger Symbols Can't Last Forever with Vox 00:00 Tools
68- Built for Speed 00:00 Tools
04- 99% Details 00:00 Tools
35- Elegy for WTC 00:00 Tools
42- Recognizably Anonymous 00:00 Tools
03- 99% Reality (only) 00:00 Tools
61- A Series of Tubes 00:00 Tools
71- In and Out of LOVE 00:00 Tools
37- The Steering Wheel 00:00 Tools
Kickstart Season 4 of 99% Invisible- Weekly Episodes 00:00 Tools
50- DeafSpace 00:00 Tools
33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll 00:00 Tools
54- The Colour of Money 00:00 Tools
06- 99% Symbolic 00:00 Tools
39X- The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet 00:00 Tools
07- 99% Alien 00:00 Tools
36- Super Bon Bonn 00:00 Tools
09- 99% Private 00:00 Tools
46- Vulcanite Dentures 00:00 Tools
60- Names vs The Nothing 00:00 Tools
53- The Xanadu Effect 00:00 Tools
69- The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo 00:00 Tools
27- Bridge to the Sky 00:00 Tools
74- Hand Painted Signs 00:00 Tools
29- Cul de Sac 00:00 Tools
67- Broken Window 00:00 Tools
56- Frozen Music 00:00 Tools
65- Razzle Dazzle 00:00 Tools
39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse 00:00 Tools
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A tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. Produced by Roman Mars, with support from LUNAR. It’s a project of KALW, the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco and the Center for Architecture and Design. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.