A passage from John Williams's classic novel, Stoner.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
SOM and the United States’s Secret Cities.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Wes Anderson's new short films are the director's best work yet.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
How the director’s ongoing camera experimentation becomes part of the story in his new film.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Other Thing is the new photo book from writer, photographer, and walker Craig Mod. It’s the photo companion to Things Become Other Things, his new memoir out now from Random House, and is a reconceptualization and expansion of his 2023 book, also called Things Become Other Things. (Yes, the Mod-verse is getting increasingly confusing and at times insular.) I’ve yet to get the 2025 TBOT but I do have the 2023 edition. Unlike these other books, Other Thing is Mod’s first book of just phot...| Jarrett Fuller
I have a new essay out today over at Untapped Journal and I think its the most personal writing I’ve ever published. It’s about my experience living on a summer camp for two and half years when I was a child. I’ve sketched out the contours this time in my life before over the last few years but never this directly. Here’s how it opens: About 80 miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana’s capital and largest city, the Tippecanoe River bends tightly back on itself, creating a small val...| Jarrett Fuller
Music has a way of invading a moment, becoming intertwined with a memory, forever serving as its soundtrack. Driving home from a day in the city with A; slightly buzzed from the too-late-in-the-day coffees we grabbed at the Stumptown in front of the Ace Hotel before heading home. On the way home, the sunset stretches across the horizon — the skyline behind us, the mountains before us. We have another hour of light thanks to the long summer evenings. The headlights pass quickly; the crisp Fa...| Jarrett Fuller
It’s 2011 and I’m sitting in my first New York apartment. I had just graduated a few months earlier and was a few months into my first professional design job. A year earlier, during my final year of school, I discovered the design studio Project Projects. Founded in 2004 by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels (and later joined by Rob Giampietro), the studio worked across mediums and maintained an intellectual rigor I was immediately attracted to. Looking back, their way of thinking inf...| Jarrett Fuller
1/6/24 Inside (2023) 1/11/24 May December (2023) 1/12/24 Pale Flower (1964) 1/14/24 Barbie (2023) 1/15/24 Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy (2022) 1/20/24 The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) 1/21/24 The Super Mario Bro. Movie (2023) 1/24/24 Juno (2007) 1/28/24 Radical Wolfe (2022) 2/3/24 Burden of Dreams (1982) 2/4/24 Maestro (2023) 2/11/24 Moonage Daydream (2022) 2/18/24 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 2/18/24 Shortcomings (2023) 2/19/24 Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All (2024) 2/24/24...| Jarrett Fuller
A few thoughts on creating structures to find surprises.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Thinking about an era of paper architecture and the trajectory of my own work.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Reflecting on two decades of writing on the web.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
I want more design writing that is experimental and ambitious.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Thinking about Kevin Lo’s new essay collection as a model for a new type of design book.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
A few episodes that I can't seem to stop thinking about.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
On Lawrence Halprin’s creative processes in the human environment.| www.jarrettfuller.blog