Founder + director of Eye on Design, a site and magazine about the world’s most exciting designers—and the issues they care about. Subscribe to the magazine + sign up for the weekly newsletter.
Writer of non-design things, too.
Instagram @perrindrumm + Twitter @perrindrumm
Where you’ve seen me lately:
- Upcoming: ModMag London, November 1, 2018
- This is What Starting a Design Union Looks Like, an Eye on Design initiative advocating for fair labor practices within the graphic design industry.
- Jessica Walsh’s Ladies, Wine & Design at The Wing, talking about how to manage a growing team when you have zero management experience.
- Monocle’s “The Stack” podcast, talking about the business case for a small independent magazine published by a not-for-profit.
- ModMag NYC, magCulture’s annual independent magazine conference, talking about how Eye on Design went from a fledgling site to a full-fledge brand and tri-annual magazine.
Things I’ve written lately-ish:
- Interviews with designers, illustrators, and art directors about how they balance mental health, friendships, and work, like this conversation between Adi Goodrich + Ngaio Parr; and this one between Dani Balenson + Indihra Rojas
- A reported op-ed that asks: Can we design a more perfect design union?
- A charmingly psychotic account of my obsessive planning habits, for New York Magazine
- Some real hard-news reporting from a Balinese villa, for Departures
- “Drowning in Data — Making the unknown known with Mona Chalabi,” for Riposte
