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Masters of Design 2009 Event

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Masters of Design 2009 Party Pics

On October 21st at Chelsea Art Museum in New York, Fast Company revealed its annual October Masters of Design issue. Along with Masters of Design partners, Porsche and Morgans Hotel Group, the event featured David Butler, VP of global design for Coca-Cola; David Rockwell, designer of this year's Academy Awards set and the upcoming Ames Hotel in Boston; starchitect David Adjaye; digital designer Lisa Strausfeld; and Smart Design's Femme Den.READ»

Coke's Master of Design Meets the Porsche Panamera

Who better to test drive the 2010 Porsche Panamera than David Butler, the designer of Coca-Cola's 100-flavor video vending machine and the cover profile in our 2009 Masters of Design issue? The thing you'll notice immediately when ...READ»

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David Adjaye: Starchitect, Luminary

A starchitect-in-the-making brings his love of light--and a social conscience--to London, Moscow, and the National Mall in D.C. Let's say we gathered the world's top architects and played a game of "Which of these is not like the others?" David Adjaye, one of the newest members of that club, would stand out. Because at 43 years old, he is so young.READ»

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Data On Display: Lisa Strausfeld's Bloomberg HQ

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How to Film a Coca-Cola Volcano

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Masters of Design 2009

This year's design issue features an array of dazzling talent: Coke's pop artist David Butler, Pentagram's infomaniac Lisa Strausfeld, the impresario David Rockwell, British architect David Adjaye, and the maestro of Italian design, Alberto Alessi. Plus, the women reinventing consumer electronics, China's answer to Nike and more...READ»

Self Licking Promotion

For purveyors of the Gutenbergian craft of typeface design, the folks at House Industries can execute new products at an impressive pace. Fast Company readers know House as the font provocateurs we profiled in our October Masters of ...READ»

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• Evolution of a Typeface: Neutra

A Behind the Scenes Peek at Making the "Typographreaks" Font

The designers at House Industries offer a show and tell of how they created the “Typographreaks” font to accompany the article we wrote about them for Masters of Design. They were inspired by Rick James’s red boots.READ»

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• Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design
• Building a Sustainable Design Community
• Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs
• Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever
• Steven Holl's Global Architecture Footprint
• Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love
• The Masters of Typography: House Industries
• President of RI School of Design
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl
• Next Design – LA Port
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Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love

American industrial designers are the secret heroes of the marketplace, finessing products to make them easier to use and help them sell better. Here's how five top firms have been busy shaping our world.READ»

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs

The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Port of Los Angeles is the Gateway to Ingenuity

The Impact of the Designers Accord Movement

Valerie Casey is rallying the creative community to her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»

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Building a Sustainable Design Community

Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Critical Mass
• 20 Coolest New Products from Top Design Shops
• Future Trends: What’s Hot and What’s Not

Steven Holl's Global Architecture Footprint

How rule breaking, vision, and a healthy shot of ego propel an architect to the top of his craft.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl
• How Big is Holl's Vanke Center?
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Port of Los Angeles is the Gateway to Ingenuity
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever
• Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian
• Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter
• Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love
• Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs
• The Masters of Typography: House Industries
• Behind the Scenes Peek at "Typographreaks"

The Economics of Intel

PC processor revenues are expected to grow 7.5% this year, to a record $32.8B. Intel dominates market share with 79.7% and its closest rival, AMD, has 19.7%. Intel's global shipments were up 20.8% in Q2 of 2008, compared ...READ»

• Reinventing the Atom

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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The Masters of Typography: House Industries

A merry band of typeface provocateurs is styling down to the letter. READ»

• Evolution of a Typeface: Neutra

Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design

John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Port of Los Angeles is the Gateway to Ingenuity
• Maeda Data
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever
• Steven Holl's Global Architecture Footprint
• Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love
• The Masters of Typography: House Industries
• Behind the Scenes Peek at "Typographreaks"
• Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian
• Building a Sustainable Design Community
• Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs
• Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter

Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian

As his multipart empire expands into the U.S., Marcel Wanders's moment has come. He's riding it for all it's worth. READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Marcel Wanders’s South Beach Mondrian
• The Vision of John Maeda
• Slideshow: Future Trends: What’s Hot and What’s Not
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• Cool Products From the Labs of Five Top Design Firms
• The Port of Los Angeles is the Gateway to Ingenuity
• Building a Sustainable Design Community
• Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever
• Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter
• Steven Holl's Global Architecture Footprint
• Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love
• The Masters of Typography: House Industries
• Behind the Scenes Peek at “Typographreaks”