Perrin Drumm is a writer, an editor, and is up for almost anything.

🙋🏽‍♀️ 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 an experimental satire project, a short story collection, and a book about The Sound of Silence. 🤐

🤳🏽 Instagram @perrindrumm + 😾 Twitter @perrindrumm

Things I’ve written lately-ish:

• 🤖 “Upgrade or Die,” short satirical fiction for the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design Magazine
• 👾 “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
• 🤔 Design + money, politics, diversity, and lots of un-asked for opinions for Eye on Design

Residencies:

• 2020 Designer in Residence (Faculty), UT Austin’s School of Design + Creative Technologies

Jury:

• 2019 Monotype Type Champions Award
• 2020 RGD So(cial) Good Design Awards
• 2020 Paris Design Awards
• 2020 Pearl Awards (Pearlfisher)

🗣️ Where you’ve heard me lately: 

• Designing a New MoMA, a conversation with MoMA’s design team (AIGA/NY @Parsons)
• äntrepõ podcast, talking about writing, design education, and experimentation.
• Moderating the first Eye on Design Debate with executive 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 the magCulture 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 you’ve heard me less lately:

• Guest lecturer, SVA’s Design department
• 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 for creative freelancers