City A.M.

ASMR you listening? Design Museum’s new exhibition brings ASMR IRL

To give some idea of the seismic level of popularity around ASMR, the most-watched YouTube video on the topic has earned four times the amount of views as Netflix’s most-watched film ever. In it, ...
CNN

Experiencing the tingling taboo of ASMR in real life

ASMR – short for autonomous sensory meridian response – is a physical sensation that has dominated a corner of the internet for the best part of a decade. It has a dedicated following, with more than ...
The Quietus

Tickling In My Head: ASMR At The Design Museum

In the centre of the Design Museum’s subterranean exhibition space is a room constructed from scaffolding and long curling beanbags. When viewed from above, these intertwining cushions resemble the ...
Artnet

C-C-Cool New Shhhhhhhhow? London’s Design Museum Hosts the World’s First Exhibition Dedicated to ASMR

A sedative tingling feeling that slowly forms on the scalp, prickling as it descends its way over the entire body before finally becoming an immersive physical experience that collapses the acoustic ...
The Guardian

This way for brain tingles: ASMR gets a shiver-inducing exhibition

From cucumber-crunchers to cranial exams, YouTube is full of ASMRtists provoking the strangely pleasurable autonomous sensory meridian response. Now they’ve got their own euphoric museum show Some ...
London Evening

Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR at the Design Museum review

Even if you haven’t heard of ASMR, odds on you’ve experienced something like it, either intentionally or unintentionally. Popping bubble wrap, perhaps, zithering your fingertip down the teeth of a ...
Creative Review

Does ASMR translate to public spaces?

In 2010, Jennifer L. Allen finally coined a term for the sensation that people have long experienced but rarely been able to sum up: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It takes many forms, from ...
Hypebeast

London's Design Museum Delves into the World of ASMR

London’s Design Museum has collaborated with the ArkDes centre in Stockholm, Sweden to present the UK’s first-ever exhibition dedicated to the sensory phenomena of ASMR. Looking at the subject from a ...
Fast Company

ASMR, The Internet Subculture Of “Sounds That Feel Good,” Is Going Mainstream

On July 27, a 30-year-old Russian expat, known only to her followers as Maria, hit 1 million subscribers on her YouTube channel GentleWhispering–which features her doing just that. Maria is one of the ...
Los Angeles Times

Julie Weitz’s ‘Touch Museum’ tweaks time and space

Warning: Upon entering Julie Weitz’s “Touch Museum,” a multi-screen video installation at Young Projects in the Pacific Design Center, artgoers may experience bouts of lightheartedness and calm; a ...
The Guardian

Good vibrations: tapping in to the benefits of ASMR

ASMR, the euphoric tingling certain sounds provoke, has created online superstars with millions of followers. Is it just a weird fad, or could it help people with anxiety and depression? When I was ...