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.
The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro
Mini-Stories: Volume 19
The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars
The 15 Minute City
Raccoon Thanksgiving
Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation
The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The Memory Palace…Book!
Meet Me at Riis
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Spirit Halloween
The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery
Trompe L'oeil
Brilliantly Boring
Christiania
The Infernal Machine
Cue the Sun!
The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages
Medellin, Revisited
Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature
Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could
Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace
Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong
Not Built For This #2: The Ripple Effect
Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl
The Power Broker #8: Shiloh Frederick
Side Projects
Top Billing
The Art of the Olympics
The 2024 Olympics Spectacular
The Power Broker #7: Sec. Pete Buttigieg
A River Runs Through Los Angeles
As Slow As Possible
The Containment Plan (rebroadcast)
Backfired: The Vaping Wars
The Power Broker #6: Mike Schur
Category 6
The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars
Fact Checking the Supreme Court
Uptown Squirrel [update]
The Lost Subways of North America
The Power Broker #5: Brandy Zadrozny
Rocket Man
It's Howdy Doody Time!
BONUS- Towers of Silence: Vulture Conservation
Mr. Yuk
Towers of Silence
The Power Broker #4: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Anything's Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
Chambre de Bonne
Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is
Autism Pleasantville
The Monster Under the Sink
The Power Broker #3: David Sims
Toyetic
WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm
Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is
The Real Book [rebroadcast]
Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal
You Are What You Watch
The Power Broker #2: Jamelle Bouie
The White Castle System of Eating Houses
Between the Blocks
Don't Forget to Remember
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is
The Double Kick
The Power Broker #1: Robert Caro
Imitation Nation
Mini-Stories: Volume 18
Another Visit from the Three Santas of Slovenia
Mini-Stories: Volume 17
Empire of the Sum
Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
The Known Unknown [rebroadcast]
Long Strange Tape
Home on the Range
The Six-Week Cure
The Fever Tree Hunt
Model Village
Devolutionary Redesign
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark
The Big Dig
Devil in the Details
Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House
Blood in the Machine
Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out AGAIN
Office Space
Melanie Speaks
Trail Mix: Track Two
Trail Mix
Cooking with Gas
The Country of the Blind
Shade Redux
Chick Tracts
In Proximity: Ryan Coogler and Roman Mars
Player Piano
The Frankfurt Kitchen
The Siren of Scrap Metal
Courtroom Sketch
Goodnight Nobody [rebroadcast]
Train Set: Track Three
Paved Paradise
Nuts and Bolts
Craptions
For Amusement Only (Free Replay)
Dear John and Roman
For a Dollar and a Dream
De Fiets Is Niets
The Panopticon Effect
The Wilderness Tool
Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
A Whale-Oiled Machine
The Lost Cities of Geo Redux
RoboUmp
Orange Alternative
The Chinatown Punk Wars
The Day the Music Stopped
Six-on-Six Basketball
The Comrades
A Sea of Yellow
Mini-Stories: Volume 16
Balikbayan Boxes
Mini-Stories: Volume 15
The Divided Dial
Cougar Town
Super Citizens
Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens
Train Set: Track Two
Articles of Interest: American Ivy
The Safety Bicycle
Walk of Fame
Vuvuzela
Wickedest Sound
Tale of the Jackalope
President Clinton Interviews Roman Mars
Search and Ye Might Find
Monumental Diplomacy
First Errand
Bleep!
What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law- The Longest Week
Re:peat
99% Vernacular: Volume 3
99% Vernacular: Volume 2
99% Vernacular: Volume 1
Say Aloe to My Little Frond
The Octagon House
Hometown Village
The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature
Meet Us by the Fountain
Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
Divining Provenance
Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
The Missing Middle
Train Set
Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David
Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
It’s a Small Aisle After All
Atlas Obscura
Rumble Strip
Murder Most Fowl
Dear Hank and John and Roman
Grid Locked
Natalie de Blois: To Tell the Truth
The Future of the Final Mile
Broken Heart Park
According to Need wins duPont-Columbia Award
Art Imitates Art
Call of Duty: Free
Reaction Offices and the Future of Work
Rock Paper Scissors Bus
The Punisher Skull
Mini-Stories : Volume 14
Mini-Stories : Volume 13
Mini-Stories : Volume 12
The Three Santas of Slovenia
The Epic of Collier Heights
Alphabetical Order
Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
The Weight
Shirley Cards
Finding Julia Morgan
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
I Can't Believe It's Pink Margarine
Changing Stripes
The House that Came in the Mail Again
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
Yankee Pyramids
Real Fake Bridges
Model Organism
Full Spectrum
A Field Guide to Water
War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design
The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
The Lows of High Tech
Hanko
Stuff the British Stole
Mine!
Katie Mingle's Right to Roam
Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
The Clinch
Pipe Dreams
Matters of Time
Tanz Tanz Revolution
Abandoned Ships
Curb Cuts (Repeat)
La Brega in Levittown
Welcome to Jurassic Art Redux
The Real Book
Science Vs Snakes
Oops, Our Bad
The Megaplex!
Artistic License
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer
The Batman and the Bridge Builder
12 Heads from the Garden of Perfect Brightness
Judas and the Black Messiah, Episode 1: The Chairman
The Doom Boom
Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer from 99% Invisible and Proximity Media
Stuccoed in Time
Beneath the Skyway
Mini-Stories: Volume 11
Mini-Stories: Volume 10
Mini-Stories: Volume 9
Roman Mars on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Chapter 5: Housing Finally
Chapter 4: The List
Chapter 3: Housing First
Chapter 2: The Hotline
Chapter 1: Tulicia
According to Need: Prologue
According to Need coming December 1
The Great Indoors
Sean Exploder
In The Unlikely Event
You've Got Enron Mail!
The Lost Cities of Geo
Take a Walk
99pi Presents The Next Billion Users
Sign Stealing
For the Love of Peat
Exploring The 99% Invisible City
Goodnight Nobody
The Address Book
Highways 101
Where Do We Go From Here?
Podcast Episode
The Revolutionary Post (Repeat)
Policing the Open Road
California Love Scared Straight
Valley of the Fallen
The Dolphin that Roared
A Side of Franchise
Freedom House Ambulance Service
Return of Oñate's Foot
Return of the Yokai
Instant Gramification
Wedding Dresses: Articles of Interest #12
Diamonds: Articles of Interest #11
Suits: Articles of Interest #10
Perfume: Articles of Interest #9
Knockoffs: Articles of Interest #8
A Fantasy of Fashion: Articles of Interest #7
The Natural Experiment
The Smell of Concrete After Rain
Masking for a Friend
Unsheltered in Place
Wipe Out
This Day in Esoteric Political History
This is Chance! Redux
Roman Mars Describes Things As They Are
Map Quests: Political, Physical and Digital
The Weather Machine
Over the Road
Fraktur
Whomst Among Us Has Let The Dogs Out
Missing the Bus
The Worst Video Game Ever
Their Dark Materials
Shade
Mini-Stories: Volume 8
Mini-Stories: Volume 7
Smart Stuff with Justin and Roman- Founder Effect
The ELIZA Effect
The Infantorium
Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl
Cautionary Tales
Ubiquitous Icons: Peace, Power, and Happiness
How To Pick A Pepper
Great Bitter Lake Association
Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
Unsure Footing
The Kirkbride Plan
The Help-Yourself City
99% Invisible presents What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
Dead Cars
The Pool and the Stream Redux
Wait Wait...Tell Me!
All Rings Considered
Peace Lines
Model City
On Beeing
He's Still Neutral
Invisible Women
Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Twine
Built on Sand
The Universal Page
Life and Death in Singapore
The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Barney Design redux
The Automat
Depave Paradise
Sound and Health: Hospitals
La Sagrada Familia (Repeat)
Sound and Health: Cities
Weeding is Fundamental
From Bombay with Love
Uptown Squirrel
Play Mountain
The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
Froebel's Gifts
Three Things That Made the Modern Economy
The Many Deaths of a Painting
Palaces for the People
Classic Cartoon Sound Effects!
The Known Unknown
Usonia Redux
Beneath the Ballpark
National Sword
The Secret Lives of Color
The Tunnel
Crude Habitat
Atomic Tattoos
Mini-Stories: Volume 6
Gathering the Magic
Christmas with The Allusionist
Mini-Stories: Volume 5
Bonus Episode- Avery talks Articles of Interest with Roman
The Accidental Room
Oñate's Foot
Raccoon Resistance
The Green Book redux
Orphan Drugs
Devolutionary Design
A Year in the Dark
Welcome to Jurassic Art
The Worst Way to Start a City
Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6
Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5
Hawaiian Shirts: Articles of Interest #4
Pockets: Articles of Interest #3
Plaid: Articles of Interest #2
Kids' Clothes: Articles of Interest #1
Billboard Boys: The Greatest Radio Contest of All Time
The House that Came in the Mail
The First Straw
Double Standards
Bundyville
It's Chinatown
Fire and Rain
Built to Burn
The Shipping Forecast
Everything is Alive
Interrobang
Roman Mars on ZigZag
VIDEO- Why Danger Symbols Can't Last Forever with Vox
Right to Roam
Post-Narco Urbanism
The Barney Design
77 Steps
The Vault
Curb Cuts
Immobile Homes
Breaking Bad News
The Laff Box
Gander International Airport
The Hair Chart
Lessons from Las Vegas
Making it Rain
Airships and the Future that Never Was
Gerrymandering
Miss Manhattan Redux
Fordlandia
Blood, Sweat and Tears (City of the Future, Part 2)
Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)
Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar
Border Wall
Managed Retreat
Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
Thermal Delight
Mini-Stories: Volume 4
Biomimicry- Vox + 99% Invisible Video
Mini-Stories: Volume 3
Guerrilla Public Service Redux
The Nut Behind the Wheel
A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
Money Makers
Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television
Dollhouses of St. Louis
Oyster-tecture
La Sagrada Familia
Half Measures
The Containment Plan
The Athletic Brassiere
Ponte City Tower
The Finnish Experiment
Coal Hogs Work Safe
The Age of the Algorithm
Notes on an Imagined Plaque
Person in Lotus Position
The Great Dismal Swamp
The Stethoscope
Ways of Hearing
El Gordo
The Trials of Dan and Dave
Repackaging the Pill
The Pool and the Stream
Mexico 68
You Should Do a Story
In the Same Ballpark
Intro to a new Roman Mars podcast: What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
The Yin and Yang of Basketball (Repeat)
Squatters of the Lower East Side
New Jersey
This Is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake
The Modern Necropolis
Reversing the Grid
Sounds Natural
The Architect of Hollywood
Containers
Manzanar
The Falling of the Lenins
Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut
State (Sanctuary, Part 2)
Church (Sanctuary, Part 1)
Atom in the Garden of Eden
Usonia the Beautiful
Usonia 1
The Eponymist
The Revolutionary Post
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
Mini-Stories: Volume 2
Mini-Stories: Volume 1
Plat of Zion
Guano Island
NBC Chimes
Dollar Store Town
Reverb
Ten Letters for the President
The Shift
Space Trash, Space Treasure
McMansion Hell
Half a House
Project Cybersyn
Longbox (Repeat)
The Trend Forecast
Making Up Ground
Public Works
On Average
Photo Credit
A Sea Worth its Salt
The Magic Bureaucrat
Combat Hearing Loss
America’s Last Top Model
The Mind of an Architect
Unpleasant Design
Remembering Stonewall
Home on Lagrange
The Blazer Experiment
H-Day
Holdout (Repeat)
Loud and Clear
Separation Anxiety
Turf Wars of East New York
The Grand Dame of Broad Street
Unseen City
Supertall 101
Vox Ex Machina
Soul City
The White Elephant Of Tel Aviv
Flying Food
The SoHo Effect
The Giftschrank
Mojave Phone Booth
Video- The Norman Door with Vox
The Green Book
Miss Manhattan
The Yin and Yang of Basketball
The Ice King
Fish Cannon
The Fresno Drop
Best Enjoyed By
Bone Music
Tube Benders
Pagodas and Dragon Gates
Worst Smell in the World
Fixing the Hobo Suit
The Landlord’s Game
Fountain Drinks
Butterfly Effects
War and Pizza
Atmospherians
Structural Integrity (Rebroadcast)
Rajneeshpuram
Dead Letter Office
A Sweet Surprise Awaits You
Milk Carton Kids
Reefer Madness
Bathysphere
The Great Restoration
Lawn Order
Hard to Love a Brute
The Sunshine Hotel
From the Sea, Freedom
Awareness
On Location
Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, Pt. 2)
Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)
Freud’s Couch
All In Your Head
Voices in the Wire
Viva La Arquitectura!
The Nutshell Studies
The Post-Billiards Age
The Gruen Effect
Mystery House
Show of Force
Perfect Security
The Calendar
Sandhogs
The Colour of Money (R)
Devil’s Rope
Coin Check
Palm Reading
PDX Carpet
Game Over (R)
Guerrilla Public Service
La Mascotte
Under The Moonlight
Of Mice And Men
The Sizzle
Penn Station Sucks
Mooallempalooza
Octothorpe
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Inflatable Men
And The Winner Is
Three Records from Sundown
Vexillonaire
Edge of Your Seat
O-U-I-J-A
Good Bread
Kickstart Radiotopia- A Storytelling Revolution
Lights Out
For Amusement Only
The Straight Line Is A Godless Line
Port of Dallas
Castle on the Park
Genesis Object
Holdout
Thomassons
Hacking IKEA
The Sound of Sports
Walk This Way
Duplitecture
Longbox
Snowflake
Good Egress
Cold War Kids
Skyjacking
Feet of Engineering
Song Exploder
Clean Trains
Breaking the Bank
Cow Tunnels
Ten Thousand Years
Monumental Dilemma
Young Ruin
Masters of the Uni-verse
Structural Integrity
Title TK
Barcodes
Call Now
The Fancy Shape
One Man is An Island
Tunnel 57
UTBAPH
Icon for Access
Cover Story
Higher And Higher
The View From The 79th Floor
Six Stories- the memory palace
Numbers Stations
DIY Space Suit
Future Screens are Mostly Blue
Unbuilt
Revolving Doors
All the Buildings
Kickstart Season 4 of 99% Invisible- Weekly Episodes
Wild Ones Live
Strowger and Purple Reign Redux
Bubble Houses
The Broadcast Clock
I Heart NY, TM
Reversal of Fortune
Noble Effort
Ode to Ladislav Sutnar plus Trading Places with Planet Money
Heyoon
The Man of Tomorrow
Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge
An Architect’s Code
The Symphony of Sirens plus Soviet Design
No Armed Bandit
Game Changer
The Modern Moloch
Secret Staircases
Hand Painted Signs
The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems
New Old Town
In and Out of LOVE
The Great Red Car Conspiracy
The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo
Built for Speed
Broken Window
Kowloon Walled City
Razzle Dazzle
Derelict Dome
The Political Stage
Q2
A Series of Tubes
BackStory- Heyward Shepherd Memorial
Two Storeys
Names vs The Nothing
Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life
Purple Reign
Kickstarter Video for Season 3 of 99% Invisible
What Gave You That Idea
Frozen Music
The Best Beer in the World
The Colour of Money
The Xanadu Effect
Galloping Gertie
The Arsenal of Exclusion
DeafSpace
Queue Theory and Design
The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room
US Postal Service Stamps
Vulcanite Dentures
Immersive Ideal
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators
Recognizably Anonymous
The Human-Human Interface
Billy Possum
The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
Darth Vader Family Courthouse
Sound of Sport
The Steering Wheel
Super Bon Bonn
Elegy for WTC
The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids
A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll
Design for Airports
Feltron Annual Report
The Blue Yarn
Cul de Sac
Movie Title Sequences
Bridge to the Sky
Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper
Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
The Capitol Columns
You Are Listening To + Radio Net
Free Speech Monument
BLDGBLOG: On Sound
Nikko Concrete Commando
RJDJ Reactive Music
Liberation Squares plus NY Dick
Check Cashing Stores
Concrete Furniture
A Designed Language
Sounds of the Artificial World
Periodic Table
Game Over (Snap Judgment)
13- Maps
99% Guilt Free
99% Undesigned
99% Sound and Feel
One Way Ticket To Mars
99% Private
99% Free Parking
99% Alien
99% Symbolic
99% Forgotten
99% Details
99% Reality (only)
99% 180