We take a look back at the last year of Fast Company through the lens of photography. From the professional portraits that graced our magazines to the unusual images utilized for our website, it's been an interesting year.READ»
If you had to give an award for the year's most breakthrough piece of consumer tech, there's a good chance it would go to Lytro, a camera company which recently unveiled its first product. Unlike other cameras, you never need to focus ...READ»
Lytro's amazing "light field" camera tech has everyone from pro photogs to casual clickers abuzz. But the innovations now en route suggest that the company's best is yet to come.READ»
In the century and a half since it was invented, has the basic user experience of consumer photography changed all that much? Cameras have gotten smaller, more rugged, more sensitive, sharper and smarter. But you still basically hold ...READ»
What do you get when you mix the post-millennial American ennui of American Beauty with the lusciously art-directed imagery of a food magazine? "Disparity," a series of impish-but-eerie photographs in which mysterious micro-scenes--a ...READ»
Landscape photography tends to focus on larger-than-life subject matter, like Edward Burtynksy’s gobsmacking photos of the Gulf oil spill last year, or the epic Arctic Circle photos from Nadav Kander. But photographer Delaney Allen ...READ»
We all know we aren’t at our most attractive after working out. But how bad could we possibly look? I mean really?
Bad. Extraordinarily bad. Like we-shouldn't-go-out-in-public bad. Nick-Nolte-on-a-bender bad. ...READ»
Most of us assume that packaging protects the stuff we buy from people and their grubby paws. Boy, are we wrong. As a series of photographs by New York- and L.A.-based Lorena Turner shows, even our most meticulously packaged goods ...READ»
Stéphane Couturier, the French photographer who was recently shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, once said that the greatest picture he never took was “the birth of matter.” Heavy stuff -- but then again, Couturier’s photographs ...READ»
Take a drive along a major highway and you'll see the fodder for Josef Schulz's photographic oeuvre: nondescript industrial factories, office parks, and clusters of hotel and restaurant signage bidding you to take the next exit. If ...READ»
TagSense, a prototype app designed by two Microsoft interns, can automatically tag a picture with a person's name, physical activities, facial expression, and exact physical location--all without human input.READ»
It's hard to impress us sometimes with new display typefaces -- we just see so damn many of them. The ones that do catch our eye usually incorporate some unexpected physical process into their design. Marc Böttler's "Klotz" type ...READ»
A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.READ»
The magi-cam is a robotic and mirrored surveillance device that most animals can't even see--taking advantage of many species' lack of sense of self.READ»
The startup's capital comes from big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock, and its tech team includes a cofounder of Silicon Graphics and the man who was the chief architect for Palm's revolutionary webOS software. So what's the fuss all about?READ»
Photographers have long trained their lenses on the atrocities of war, and even influenced the outcomes of few major battles. J Henry Fair is a member of that politically motivated tribe, though his focus is on the war we seem to be ...READ»
Henri Cartier-Bresson, god of street photography, would have loved the iPhone camera. But he might have been frustrated with its ergonomics -- how are you supposed to capture "the decisive moment" quickly, spontaneously, and artfully ...READ»
Drop that iPhone! An Apple patent application is stirring controversy because it suggests future iPhones may automatically prevent filming or photography of films in the theater and of stage performances. Is a Phish concert still a Phish concert if no one's there to record it? READ»
Kitty and Lala are Chinese wedding photographers and bloggers who are introducing a playful, modern angle into fuddy-duddy Chinese wedding photos. They're also part of Intel's global campaign to promote its new-gen Core 2 CPUs. The pairing makes sense on a number of levels--but will it resonate with American audiences? READ»
In the age of iStuff, we all idly dream of casually coming up with a hit app idea and making a mint off it. MetaLab designer William Wilkinson is one of the few people who have actually accomplished this.
Inspired by the wildly ...READ»
