Description
A superbly designed guidebook to the disregarded but crucial components of our towns, from the creators of the wildly fashionable 99% Invisible podcast
Have you ever questioned what the ones vibrant, squiggly graffiti marks at the sidewalk imply?
Or stopped to contemplate who will get to call the streets we stroll alongside?
Or what the tale is at the back of the ones dancing inflatable figures in automobile dealerships?
99% Invisible is a large-concepts podcast approximately small-seeming issues, revealing tales baked into the homes we inhabit, the streets we power, and the sidewalks we traverse. The display celebrates layout and structure in all of its purposeful glory and unintentional absurdity, with fascinating tales of each designers and the folks impacted via their designs.
Now, in The ninety nine% Invisible Town: A Box Information to Hidden Global of On a regular basis Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in at the more than a few components that make our towns paintings, exploring the origins and different interesting tales at the back of the whole thing from energy grids and hearth escapes to ingesting fountains and side road indicators. With deeply researched entries and wonderful line drawings right through, The ninety nine% Invisible Town will captivate trustworthy fanatics of the display and somebody desirous about layout, city environments, and the unsung marvels of the sector round them.
Have you ever questioned what the ones vibrant, squiggly graffiti marks at the sidewalk imply?
Or stopped to contemplate who will get to call the streets we stroll alongside?
Or what the tale is at the back of the ones dancing inflatable figures in automobile dealerships?
99% Invisible is a large-concepts podcast approximately small-seeming issues, revealing tales baked into the homes we inhabit, the streets we power, and the sidewalks we traverse. The display celebrates layout and structure in all of its purposeful glory and unintentional absurdity, with fascinating tales of each designers and the folks impacted via their designs.
Now, in The ninety nine% Invisible Town: A Box Information to Hidden Global of On a regular basis Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in at the more than a few components that make our towns paintings, exploring the origins and different interesting tales at the back of the whole thing from energy grids and hearth escapes to ingesting fountains and side road indicators. With deeply researched entries and wonderful line drawings right through, The ninety nine% Invisible Town will captivate trustworthy fanatics of the display and somebody desirous about layout, city environments, and the unsung marvels of the sector round them.
