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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.
A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.

271- The Great Dismal Swamp

Aug. 15, 2017

28:38

270- The Stethoscope

Aug. 9, 2017

24:11

269- Ways of Hearing

Aug. 1, 2017

42:06

July 25, 2017

28:58

267- The Trials of Dan and Dave

July 18, 2017

57:06

266- Repackaging the Pill

July 11, 2017

22:26

265- The Pool and the Stream

July 4, 2017

34:51

June 27, 2017

26:16

263- You Should Do a Story

June 20, 2017

30:41

262- In the Same Ballpark

June 13, 2017

29:39

Intro to a new Roman Mars podcast: What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

June 8, 2017

13:24

199- The Yin and Yang of Basketball

June 7, 2017

23:57

261- Squatters of the Lower East Side

May 30, 2017

30:37

260- New Jersey

May 23, 2017

23:00

259- This Is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake

May 16, 2017

31:10

258- The Modern Necropolis

May 9, 2017

22:41

257- Reversing the Grid

May 2, 2017

31:27

256- Sounds Natural

April 18, 2017

28:21

255- The Architect of Hollywood

April 11, 2017

25:53

254- Containers

April 4, 2017

36:08

March 28, 2017

29:34

252- The Falling of the Lenins

March 21, 2017

27:30

251- Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut

March 14, 2017

50:14

250- State (Sanctuary, Part 2)

March 8, 2017

33:14

249- Church (Sanctuary, Part 1)

Feb. 28, 2017

32:59

248- Atom in the Garden of Eden

Feb. 21, 2017

23:17

247- Usonia the Beautiful

Feb. 15, 2017

24:02

Feb. 7, 2017

29:00

245- The Eponymist

Feb. 1, 2017

31:48

244- The Revolutionary Post

Jan. 24, 2017

22:27

243- Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

Jan. 18, 2017

24:38

242- Mini-Stories: Volume 2

Jan. 10, 2017

34:06

241- Mini-Stories: Volume 1

Dec. 20, 2016

31:24

240- Plat of Zion

Dec. 14, 2016

22:16

239- Guano Island

Dec. 6, 2016

23:21

238- NBC Chimes

Nov. 29, 2016

17:39

237- Dollar Store Town

Nov. 23, 2016

20:13

Nov. 16, 2016

23:44

235- Ten Letters for the President

Nov. 8, 2016

18:46

Nov. 1, 2016

20:48

233- Space Trash, Space Treasure

Oct. 25, 2016

23:00

232- McMansion Hell

Oct. 18, 2016

19:06

231- Half a House

Oct. 11, 2016

25:02

230- Project Cybersyn

Oct. 4, 2016

26:23

Sept. 27, 2016

22:17

229- The Trend Forecast

Sept. 20, 2016

20:11

228- Making Up Ground

Sept. 13, 2016

23:09

227- Public Works

Sept. 6, 2016

18:39

226- On Average

Aug. 23, 2016

22:31

225- Photo Credit

Aug. 17, 2016

23:02

224- A Sea Worth its Salt

Aug. 9, 2016

22:12

223- The Magic Bureaucrat

Aug. 3, 2016

36:53

222- Combat Hearing Loss

July 26, 2016

21:56

221- America’s Last Top Model

July 19, 2016

22:40

220- The Mind of an Architect

July 13, 2016

26:34

219- Unpleasant Design

July 6, 2016

19:04

218- Remembering Stonewall

June 29, 2016

31:33

217- Home on Lagrange

June 22, 2016

31:29

216- The Blazer Experiment

June 14, 2016

26:42

June 7, 2016

21:23

May 31, 2016

20:56

214- Loud and Clear

May 25, 2016

24:15

213- Separation Anxiety

May 18, 2016

21:00

212- Turf Wars of East New York

May 11, 2016

32:16

211- The Grand Dame of Broad Street

May 4, 2016

24:36

210- Unseen City

April 27, 2016

31:21

209- Supertall 101

April 20, 2016

21:51

208- Vox Ex Machina

April 13, 2016

27:10

April 6, 2016

36:29

206- The White Elephant Of Tel Aviv

March 30, 2016

40:53

205- Flying Food

March 23, 2016

20:21

204- The SoHo Effect

March 16, 2016

21:41

203- The Giftschrank

March 9, 2016

23:46

202- Mojave Phone Booth

March 2, 2016

22:51

Video- The Norman Door with Vox

Feb. 27, 2016

02:30

201- The Green Book

Feb. 24, 2016

24:54

200- Miss Manhattan

Feb. 17, 2016

21:04

199- The Yin and Yang of Basketball

Feb. 10, 2016

23:55

198- The Ice King

Feb. 3, 2016

20:26

197- Fish Cannon

Jan. 27, 2016

20:18

196- The Fresno Drop

Jan. 20, 2016

17:49

195- Best Enjoyed By

Jan. 13, 2016

19:21

194- Bone Music

Dec. 22, 2015

16:24

193- Tube Benders

Dec. 16, 2015

18:33

192- Pagodas and Dragon Gates

Dec. 8, 2015

26:29

191- Worst Smell in the World

Dec. 2, 2015

16:57

190- Fixing the Hobo Suit

Nov. 24, 2015

23:16

189- The Landlord’s Game

Nov. 18, 2015

20:18

188- Fountain Drinks

Nov. 10, 2015

37:08

187- Butterfly Effects

Nov. 4, 2015

22:09

186- War and Pizza

Oct. 28, 2015

22:58

Radiotopia Forever- Coin Check

Oct. 23, 2015

17:59

185- Atmospherians

Oct. 20, 2015

26:32

110- Structural Integrity (Rebroadcast)

Oct. 14, 2015

29:39

184- Rajneeshpuram

Oct. 7, 2015

33:44

183- Dead Letter Office

Sept. 30, 2015

21:41

182- A Sweet Surprise Awaits You

Sept. 23, 2015

20:40

181- Milk Carton Kids

Sept. 15, 2015

22:12

180- Reefer Madness

Sept. 9, 2015

20:30

179- Bathysphere

Sept. 2, 2015

26:28

178- The Great Restoration

Aug. 26, 2015

34:00

177- Lawn Order

Aug. 19, 2015

21:03

176- Hard to Love a Brute

Aug. 12, 2015

22:51

175- The Sunshine Hotel

Aug. 5, 2015

33:22

174- From the Sea, Freedom

July 29, 2015

22:56

July 22, 2015

22:02

172- On Location

July 15, 2015

19:20

171- Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, Pt. 2)

July 1, 2015

26:32

170- Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)

June 24, 2015

33:54

169- Freud’s Couch

June 17, 2015

18:17

168- All In Your Head

June 10, 2015

35:18

167- Voices in the Wire

June 3, 2015

43:14

166- Viva La Arquitectura!

May 27, 2015

24:02

165- The Nutshell Studies

May 20, 2015

28:41

164- The Post-Billiards Age

May 13, 2015

18:00

163- The Gruen Effect

May 6, 2015

20:54

162- Mystery House

April 28, 2015

22:06

161- Show of Force

April 22, 2015

24:55

160- Perfect Security

April 15, 2015

20:33

159- The Calendar

April 8, 2015

22:14

March 31, 2015

28:53

54- The Colour of Money (R)

March 25, 2015

23:02

157- Devil’s Rope

March 18, 2015

25:30

156- Coin Check

March 11, 2015

20:10

155- Palm Reading

March 4, 2015

19:12

154- PDX Carpet

Feb. 24, 2015

19:16

153- Game Over (R)

Feb. 18, 2015

14:26

152- Guerrilla Public Service

Feb. 11, 2015

18:21

151- La Mascotte

Feb. 3, 2015

21:14

150- Under The Moonlight

Jan. 28, 2015

20:05

149- Of Mice And Men

Jan. 21, 2015

21:45

148- The Sizzle

Jan. 14, 2015

18:30

147- Penn Station Sucks

Jan. 7, 2015

20:52

146- Mooallempalooza

Dec. 31, 2014

48:28

145- Octothorpe

Dec. 17, 2014

18:59

144- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Dec. 10, 2014

18:28

143- Inflatable Men

Dec. 3, 2014

19:18

142- And The Winner Is

Nov. 26, 2014

18:09

141- Three Records from Sundown

Nov. 19, 2014

34:24

140- Vexillonaire

Nov. 12, 2014

16:48

139- Edge of Your Seat

Nov. 4, 2014

20:46

Oct. 28, 2014

24:36

137- Good Bread

Oct. 22, 2014

21:22

Kickstart Radiotopia- A Storytelling Revolution

Oct. 19, 2014

02:30

136- Lights Out

Oct. 14, 2014

21:39

135- For Amusement Only

Oct. 7, 2014

17:31

134- The Straight Line Is A Godless Line

Sept. 30, 2014

20:21

133- Port of Dallas

Sept. 24, 2014

22:51

132- Castle on the Park

Sept. 16, 2014

21:15

131- Genesis Object

Sept. 10, 2014

16:12

Sept. 2, 2014

21:24

129- Thomassons

Aug. 26, 2014

18:48

128- Hacking IKEA

Aug. 19, 2014

22:49

127- The Sound of Sports

Aug. 12, 2014

01:04:18

126- Walk This Way

Aug. 5, 2014

19:40

125- Duplitecture

July 29, 2014

14:58

July 22, 2014

21:07

July 15, 2014

20:38

122- Good Egress

July 8, 2014

21:56

121- Cold War Kids

July 1, 2014

26:01

120- Skyjacking

June 24, 2014

19:23

119- Feet of Engineering

June 17, 2014

18:16

118- Song Exploder

June 10, 2014

23:16

117- Clean Trains

June 3, 2014

23:29

116- Breaking the Bank

May 27, 2014

23:15

115- Cow Tunnels

May 20, 2014

25:53

114- Ten Thousand Years

May 13, 2014

33:24

113- Monumental Dilemma

May 6, 2014

27:36

112- Young Ruin

April 29, 2014

22:35

111- Masters of the Uni-verse

April 22, 2014

20:31

110- Structural Integrity

April 15, 2014

27:04

April 8, 2014

20:22

April 1, 2014

21:43

March 25, 2014

23:34

106- The Fancy Shape

March 18, 2014

19:42

105- One Man is An Island

March 11, 2014

23:20

March 5, 2014

24:24

Feb. 25, 2014

19:40

102- Icon for Access

Feb. 18, 2014

19:11

101- Cover Story

Feb. 11, 2014

22:45

100- Higher And Higher

Feb. 4, 2014

21:23

99- The View From The 79th Floor

Jan. 15, 2014

19:09

98- Six Stories- the memory palace

Jan. 3, 2014

23:41

97- Numbers Stations

Dec. 20, 2013

26:06

96- DIY Space Suit

Dec. 3, 2013

18:14

95- Future Screens are Mostly Blue

Nov. 21, 2013

27:18

Nov. 13, 2013

28:09

93- Revolving Doors

Nov. 6, 2013

20:44

92- All the Buildings

Oct. 29, 2013

23:51

91x- Always Read the Plaque- Kickstarter Announcement

Oct. 25, 2013

05:55

Kickstart Season 4 of 99% Invisible- Weekly Episodes

Oct. 23, 2013

02:30

91- Wild Ones Live

Oct. 14, 2013

35:22

90- Strowger and Purple Reign Redux

Oct. 2, 2013

27:23

89- Bubble Houses

Sept. 17, 2013

27:44

88- The Broadcast Clock

Sept. 3, 2013

19:20

87- I Heart NY, TM

Aug. 22, 2013

22:13

86- Reversal of Fortune

Aug. 9, 2013

22:52

85- Noble Effort

July 29, 2013

20:13

84- Ode to Ladislav Sutnar plus Trading Places with Planet Money

July 15, 2013

33:33

July 2, 2013

30:54

82- The Man of Tomorrow

June 20, 2013

15:26

81- Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge

June 7, 2013

14:27

80- An Architect’s Code

May 28, 2013

20:41

79- The Symphony of Sirens plus Soviet Design

May 8, 2013

26:58

78- No Armed Bandit

April 30, 2013

21:58

77- Game Changer

April 15, 2013

15:02

76- The Modern Moloch

April 4, 2013

26:51

99% Invisible-75- Secret Staircases

March 21, 2013

14:28

99% Invisible-74- Hand Painted Signs

March 8, 2013

15:19

99% Invisible-73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems

Feb. 18, 2013

14:29

99% Invisible-72- New Old Town

Feb. 5, 2013

23:05

99% Invisible-71- In and Out of LOVE

Jan. 23, 2013

19:09

99% Invisible-70- The Great Red Car Conspiracy

Jan. 11, 2013

16:17

99% Invisible-69- The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo

Dec. 31, 2012

27:25

99% Invisible-68- Built for Speed

Dec. 12, 2012

15:05

99% Invisible-67- Broken Window

Nov. 29, 2012

14:13

99% Invisible-66- Kowloon Walled City

Nov. 19, 2012

18:03

99% Invisible-65- Razzle Dazzle

Nov. 5, 2012

15:14

99% Invisible-64- Derelict Dome

Oct. 25, 2012

17:04

99% Invisible-63- The Political Stage

Oct. 12, 2012

17:46

99% Invisible-62- Q2

Oct. 2, 2012

17:48

99% Invisible-61- A Series of Tubes

Sept. 20, 2012

19:55

99% Invisible-60b- BackStory- Heyward Shepherd Memorial

Sept. 10, 2012

15:11

99% Invisible-60a- Two Storeys

Aug. 22, 2012

11:06

99% Invisible-60- Names vs The Nothing

Aug. 6, 2012

18:30

99% Invisible-59- Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life

July 25, 2012

22:11

99% Invisible-58- Purple Reign

July 13, 2012

21:03

Kickstarter Video for Season 3 of 99% Invisible

July 12, 2012

02:30

99% Invisible-57- What Gave You That Idea

June 28, 2012

16:58

99% Invisible-56- Frozen Music

June 14, 2012

12:54

99% Invisible-55- The Best Beer in the World

May 31, 2012

15:51

99% Invisible-54- The Colour of Money

May 16, 2012

19:11

99% Invisible-53- The Xanadu Effect

May 1, 2012

13:50

99% Invisible-52- Galloping Gertie

April 18, 2012

14:57

99% Invisible-51- The Arsenal of Exclusion

April 3, 2012

13:17

99% Invisible-50- DeafSpace

March 22, 2012

14:11

99% Invisible-49- Queue Theory and Design

March 9, 2012

12:24

99% Invisible-48- The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room

Feb. 26, 2012

13:37

99% Invisible-47- US Postal Service Stamps

Feb. 10, 2012

14:56

99% Invisible-46- Vulcanite Dentures

Jan. 27, 2012

11:56

99% Invisible-45- Immersive Ideal

Jan. 18, 2012

14:35

99% Invisible-44- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Jan. 6, 2012

13:57

99% Invisible-43- Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators

Dec. 19, 2011

09:50

99% Invisible-42- Recognizably Anonymous

Dec. 9, 2011

13:06

99% Invisible-41- The Human-Human Interface

Dec. 3, 2011

07:40

99% Invisible-40- Billy Possum

Nov. 23, 2011

14:35

99% Invisible-39X- The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet

Nov. 18, 2011

33:47

99% Invisible-39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse

Oct. 28, 2011

10:02

99% Invisible-38- Sound of Sport

Oct. 13, 2011

07:59

99% Invisible-37- The Steering Wheel

Sept. 29, 2011

09:49

99% Invisible-36- Super Bon Bonn

Sept. 16, 2011

12:25

99% Invisible-35- Elegy for WTC

Sept. 1, 2011

08:51

99% Invisible-34- The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids

Aug. 19, 2011

12:28

99% Invisible-33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll

Aug. 4, 2011

09:25

99% Invisible-32- Design for Airports

July 28, 2011

10:37

99% Invisible-31- Feltron Annual Report

July 14, 2011

12:24

99% Invisible-30- The Blue Yarn

July 1, 2011

12:49

99% Invisible-29- Cul de Sac

June 17, 2011

14:16

99% Invisible-28- Movie Title Sequences

June 10, 2011

11:40

99% Invisible-27- Bridge to the Sky

June 3, 2011

07:14

99% Invisible-26- Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper

May 20, 2011

09:51

99% Invisible-25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design

May 13, 2011

10:30

99% Invisible-24- The Capitol Columns

May 6, 2011

08:59

99% Invisible-23- You Are Listening To + Radio Net

April 22, 2011

22:16

99% Invisible-22- Free Speech Monument

April 15, 2011

10:02

99% Invisible-21- BLDGBLOG: On Sound

April 1, 2011

07:52

99% Invisible-20- Nikko Concrete Commando

March 25, 2011

09:22

99% Invisible-19X- RJDJ Reactive Music

March 21, 2011

11:59

99% Invisible-19- Liberation Squares plus NY Dick

March 11, 2011

13:16

99% Invisible-18- Check Cashing Stores

March 4, 2011

07:35

99% Invisible-17- Concrete Furniture

Feb. 25, 2011

09:02

99% Invisible-16- A Designed Language

Feb. 18, 2011

08:23

99% Invisible-15- Sounds of the Artificial World

Feb. 11, 2011

07:20

99% Invisible-14- Periodic Table

Feb. 4, 2011

08:30

99% Invisible-13x-Game Over (Snap Judgment)

Jan. 7, 2011

13:35

99% Invisible-13- Maps

Dec. 17, 2010

07:00

99% Invisible-12- 99% Guilt Free

Dec. 3, 2010

06:59

99% Invisible-11- 99% Undesigned

Nov. 25, 2010

07:01

99% Invisible-10- 99% Sound and Feel

Nov. 19, 2010

07:21

99% Invisible-09X-99% Doomed

Nov. 13, 2010

14:01

99% Invisible-09- 99% Private

Nov. 5, 2010

06:59

99% Invisible-08- 99% Free Parking

Oct. 29, 2010

07:21

99% Invisible-07- 99% Alien

Oct. 14, 2010

07:00

99% Invisible-06- 99% Symbolic

Oct. 7, 2010

06:59

99% Invisible-05- 99% Forgotten

Oct. 1, 2010

06:59

99% Invisible-04- 99% Details

Sept. 24, 2010

07:03

99% Invisible-03- 99% Reality (only)

Sept. 24, 2010

07:00

99% Invisible-02- 99% 180

Sept. 23, 2010

07:27

99% Invisible-01- 99% Noise

Sept. 23, 2010

07:18

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