🙋🏽♀️ Founder + director of Eye on Design, an award-winning site and magazine about the world’s most exciting designers—and the issues they care about (buy the magazine + get the newsletter).
📊 Researcher of big projects like the 2019 Design Census, but mostly of internet wormholes that are personally thrilling but lead nowhere.
✍🏽 Writer of non-design things, too. I’m currently working on a top-secret satire project, a short story collection, and a book about The Sound of Silence. 🤐
🤳🏽 Instagram @perrindrumm + 😾 Twitter @perrindrumm
Things I’ve written lately-ish:
- 👾 “Queen’s Quest,” a critical look at the first visual computer game designer, Roberta Williams.
- 😨 A series of interviews about imposter syndrome (Jennifer Daniel, Eric Hu, and Carly Ayres), for SuperHi
- 🤔 “Can One Small Design Space Save New York City From Itself?” + more from Eye on Design
📅 Where you’ll see me next:
- Us By Night, Antwerp, Sept 2019
- Design Thinkers, Toronto, Oct 2019
🗣️ Where I’ve spoken lately:
- Moderating the first Eye on Design Debate with managing editor, Liz Stinson (featuring Natasha Jen of Pentagram, Rik Lomas of SuperHi, and Aliza Dzik of McKinsey)
- Blathering about the problem with the word “community” at Birmingham Design Festival
- Talking about magazines on magCulture’s panel, A/D/O
- In conversation with the great Ian Birch + Jeremy Leslie at ModMag NYC
- At the Wix Playground dishing out career therapy
- On a sidewalk in the snow wearing my grandma’s old coat
Where I’ve spoken less lately:
- ModMag London 2018, where I referred to myself as a “den mom”
- ModMag NYC 2018, where I managed to avoid animal family references
- Stack Magazine’s podcast, where I referred to myself as a “sort-of business lady”
- Monocle Radio, and then again a few weeks later
- Jessica Walsh’s Ladies, Wine & Design at The Wing
- Attempting to start a design union to advocate for fair labor practices creative freelancers
