twenty-six.design is an independent design, editorial, and research studio led by Jarrett Fuller. Our work takes shape across a variety of media, from books and websites to podcasts and installations and we work with clients large and small, around the world.

In addition to client work, we also produce experimental work, research projects, and original content, including Scratching the Surface, a weekly design criticism podcast; readings.design, an online archive of canonical graphic design texts; and other books and speculative projects.

February 9, 2024 • Project

What It Means To Be A Designer Today, the new book co-edited by Jarrett Fuller, is now available for preorder

The new book arrived April 2024 from Princeton Architectural Press

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December 10, 2023 • Project

Where Must Design Go Next?, the new book edited by Jarrett Fuller, is now available

The new book is produced by the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech and published by Oro Editions

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December 7, 2023 • Project

Jarrett Fuller on the Extraordinary Link Between aerobics and architecture

Jarrett reviews the new book, The Advanced School of Collective Feeling for Untapped Journal

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December 1, 2023 • Project

Jarrett Fuller reviews Skolos+Wedell monograph for Eye Magazine

Jarrett's review can be found in Eye Magazine 105.

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October 5, 2023 • News

Jarrett Fuller to speak at SVA

His public talk will be on Scratching the Surface of Alternative Publishing

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September 21, 2023 • Project

Jarrett Fuller picks 5 design books to read this fall for Fast Company

In Fast Company, Jarrett picks his favorite new books

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June 20, 2023 • Project

Jarrett Fuller interviews Manuel Lima for Fast Company

The two talk about Lima's new book, The New Designer

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February 15, 2023 • News

Jarrett Fuller guest hosts the Institute of Design podcast With Intent

The six episode season, guest hosted by Jarrett, features and interviews and roundtables with ID faculty.

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January 5, 2023 • News

Jarrett Fuller awared the 2022-2023 Latham Fellowship at the Institute of Design

Jarrett will spend time with ID working on podcasts, books, and publications

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December 20, 2022 • News

Lettering Large, co-designed by twenty-six, is awarded Communication Arts's 2023 Best in Show

twenty-six worked with the American University in Sharjah on the large-scale mural.

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November 12, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller writes about the best design books of 2022 for Fast Company

Jarrett's favorite design books, from memoirs to monographs.

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October 13, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller reviews After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet for the Journal of Design History

After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet explores the history of graphic design pedagogy

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September 10, 2022 • News

Lettering Large wins The Type Directors Club 2022 Award.

twenty-six worked with the American University of Sharjah on the bilingual installation.

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August 25, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller interviews Kevin Finn about the design journal Open Manifesto

Jarrett looks at the influence of the quiet but persistent Australian design joural for Eye on Design

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August 15, 2022 • News

The Tangent podcast interviews Jarrett Fuller

Jarrett talks about writing for design, teaching, and the future of design.

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August 15, 2022 • News

Jarrett Fuller joins the steering committee for AIGA DEC

The Design Educators Community supports design educators around the world.

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August 8, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller writes new profile of Andrew Blauvelt for AIGA

Jarrett wrote the official biography for this year's AIGA Medalist

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June 27, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller's new essay on cults and brands on Eye on Design'

Jarrett's new essay explores the overlap of branding and cults

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June 16, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller interviews MACK Books's Morgan Crowcroft-Brown for Eye on Design

Jarrett interviews the great photobook designer about designing the invisible.

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May 26, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller interviews Sara de Bondt about Belgian Design History

The two discuss de Bondts new book for AIGA Eye on Design

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April 27, 2022 • Project

Jarrett Fuller reviews The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design for Design and Culture

A book review for the academic journal, Design and Culture

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April 16, 2022 • News

Jarrett Fuller interviewed on the Design is Not Neutral Podcast

Jarrett talks about his work, teaching, and writing on the new podcast

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February 9, 2022 • Project

Eye on Design excerpts Jarrett's interview with Lucille Tenazas

Jarrett's interview with design educator Lucille Tenazas for 1, 10, 100 Years of Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parson has been excerpted for Eye on Design

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February 1, 2022 • Project

1, 10, 100 Years of Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parsons, edited by Jarrett Fuller, is published by Oro Editions.

Jarrett Fuller and twenty-six worked on the 400-page publication on the history of graphic design at Parsons

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September 30, 2021 • Project

twenty-six collaborates on large-scale typographic installation at the Sharjah Expo 2021 Dubai

twenty-six collaborated with the American University of Sharjah on a bilingual, linticular mural.

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September 14, 2021 • Event

Eye on Design hosts panel on design writing at AIGA Design Conference

Jarrett co-hosted a workshop at the AIGA Design Conference on design writing

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July 26, 2021 • Project

Jarrett Fuller's essay on Cranbrook's 2D Design program published by Eye on Design

A look inside one of the most influential design programs.

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May 17, 2021 • Press

Jarrett Fuller announced as guest judge for the Design History Society's 2021 Design Writing Prize

The annual prize, awarded by the Design History Society promotes excellences in design writing of all types.

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May 14, 2021 • Press

Jarrett Fuller joins faculty at North Carolina State University

Fuller was appointed to NCSU's School of Design as an Assistant Professor in the graphic and industrial design department.

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April 7, 2021 • Project

Jarrett Fuller's new essay on Graphic Design and Minimalism published by Eye on Design

A revisionist graphic design history looking at the cultural implications of confusing simplicity with clarity.

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March 26, 2021 • Project

Support Scratching the Surface on Patreon!

Scratching the Surface relaunches the membership program on Patreon.

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January 28, 2021 • Press

The Design Observer Cooperative's January Newsletter features essay by Jarrett Fuller

Jarrett Fuller penned a personal essay about teaching, community, and care for Design Observer's member newsletter.

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January 25, 2021 • Press

Jarrett Fuller's profile of Brooklyn-based Isometric Studio published on Eye on Design

For AIGA's Eye on Design, Jarrett Fuller wrote a feature profile of the Brooklyn-based design firm Isometric Studio

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November 30, 2020 • Press

Self Reliance, the new book from Jessica Helfand designed with twenty-six, featured in The Guardian and It's Nice That

Designed in collaboration with Jessica Helfand, this new book typographically reimagined Ralph Waldo Emerson's seminal essay.

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August 20, 2020 • Press

Jarrett Fuller's new essay on design criticism published by AIGA/Eye On Design

Jarrett's new essay explores the state of design writing and criticism and the increasing complexity of the design field.

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July 16, 2020 • Project

Self Reliance, a modern reimagining of Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essay launches on Volume, with new essays by Jessica Helfand and design by twenty-six.

The new book launched on Volume, the experimental publishing imprint of Thames and Hudson

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January 28, 2020 • Event

Jarrett Fuller moderates panel on Exhibition Design at the Center For Architecture

The event featured Abbott Miller of Pentagram, Waqas Jawaid and Andy Chen of Isometric Studio, Sarah Gephart and Aleica Chen of mgmt and Jonathan Jackson of WSDIA.

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November 11, 2019 • Project

Face, the new book by Jessica Helfand and designed by twenty-six is now available.

The new book by designer, artist, and writer Jessica Helfand explores the history and future of the face and what it means to be human. Out today by MIT Press.

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October 23, 2019 • Project

twenty-six launches new Scratching the Surface website

To celebrate Jarrett Fuller's podcast Scratching the Surface, we launched a brand new website making the archive easily available.

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September 25, 2019 • Project

Haunted Bauhaus, designed by twenty-six and published by MIT Press out today!

A new book by Elizabeth Otto looks at the queer, feminist, and occult side of the famed design school.

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July 17, 2019 • Press

New Jarrett Fuller essay, Against Design, published on Design Observer

A new essay by Jarrett Fuller, Against Design, has been published by Design Observer.

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July 1, 2019 • Press

Jarrett Fuller appointed to board of directors of AIGA NY

twenty-six principal and creative director Jarrett Fuller has joined the board of AIGA NY, the largest chapter of the national professional network for graphic designers.

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June 19, 2019 • Event

Jarrett Fuller speaks on panel at Bard Graduate Center on 'Designing Nationalism'

Jarrett Fuller spoke with designer Silas Munro and writer Anne Quito at the Bard Graduate Center about Designing Nationalism as part of a programming series associated with the current exhibition on Jan Tschichold and the New Typography.

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June 12, 2019 • Press

Jarrett Fuller interviewed in Design Decode

Jarrett Fuller was interviewed by Design Decode about design as ideology, ethics, and finding new ways to teach design.

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May 29, 2019 • Press

Scratching the Surface featured in Eye Magazine

Scratching the Surface, a podcast hosted by Jarrett Fuller, was include in a feature in the latest issue of Eye Magazine called 'The Designer as Podcaster.'

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April 24, 2019 • Event

Jarrett Fuller moderates AIGA panel to celebrate 'Culture is Not Always Popular'

On April 24, 2019, Jarrett Fuller moderated a panel with Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Karrie Jacobs, Thomas de Monchaux, and Ashleigh Axios to celebrate the release of our book, Culture is Not Always Popular.

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January 1, 2019 • Project

Culture is Not Always Popular, co-edited by Jarrett Fuller and designed by twenty-six, is now available from MIT Press!

'Culture is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer' is a new book published by MIT Press celebrating fifteen years of the popular design site, Design Observer. Jarrett worked with DO co-founders Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand to edit and design the book.

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