Detroit has seen plenty of projects that attempt to revitalize its
streets. But a temporary art installation might have left one of the
city's most lasting impressions.READ MORE›
Ralph McQuarrie dreamed up sci-fi images before cameras ever rolled for "Star Wars" scenes. He set the standard for film magic. He died today at age 82. Here is some of his best work.READ MORE›
Aram Bartholl's public art installations are a mash-up of the real and digital worlds. "Space and cyberspace mingle and mangle one another" in his work, as sci-fi author Bruce Sterling says in the introduction to this retrospective of ...READ MORE›
They were doing just fine before, but Facebook's biggest minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (or billions in some cases), here's a look at what ...READ MORE›
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 MORE›
How explicitly can companies rip off Apple's designs? That's the question we posed recently to Christopher Carani, an IP lawyer with McAndrews, Held & Malloy. Now it's your turn--in this 10-question quiz!READ MORE›
Saul Bass. Before I ever met him, before we worked together, he was a legend in my eyes. His designs, for film titles and company logos and record albums and posters, defined an era. In essence, they found and distilled the poetry of ...READ MORE›
Architecture of Fear is the title and subject of an intriguing new exhibit at Z33, a contemporary art space in Hasselt, Belgium--fear now being something we’ve politicized and commodified and generally made into a global way of ...READ MORE›
Scanwiches, by Jon Chonko, doesn't quite fit in the regular food-book pantheon--Sandwiched between the covers are ingredient listings, operational instructions, shout-outs, and factoids surrounding the sammie. What is the proper ...READ MORE›
Obscura Digital, the creative tech agency behind this crazy live-action data visualization and this (even crazier) animated building facade, has unveiled surprisingly un-crazy headquarters in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. ...READ MORE›
The lovable oddball Buckminster Fuller has inspired everything from surf mobiles to ice cream sandwiches. And now this: a faceted magazine cover that looks and feels like a flattened geodesic dome.
pull wrote:“The first ...READ MORE›
“Pharma,” an exhibition of pharmaceutical-focused graphic design that opened at the Herb Lubalin Study Center at Cooper Union on November 1, traces this evolution of visual trends using more than 60 pieces, some from as far back ...READ MORE›
What is good design? It’s a question that comes up regularly, either implicitly or overtly, when assessing an object. By and large, we look for examples of function and beauty. (If we considered criteria like sustainability and long ...READ MORE›
In terms of two-wheeled transportation, the e-bike has a reputation only slightly less lame than the three-wheeled motorcycle. But that didn’t stop IDEO and Paul Sadoff--well, it almost stopped Sadoff, who was less than enthusiastic ...READ MORE›
For the 175th anniversary of the Bristol Zoo, 60 artists were commissioned to create life-size gorilla sculptures that were installed around the English city this past summer. For one of them, the Bristol-based design studio 375 came ...READ MORE›
Last month, residents of (and visitors to) Melbourne’s Federation Square were invited to crawl through a vast network of semi-transparent tubes suspended nearly 20 feet in the air. If that sounds like a carnival ride you’d rather ...READ MORE›
The Wellcome Collection, in London, bills itself as a “free destination for the incurably curious.” To my mind, that’s one of the few taglines that is both enticing and truthful. If anything, it undersells itself--it's a ...READ MORE›
Ariana Page Russell isn’t the first artist to use her own flesh as a canvas, but she’s probably the first to do it without having to swallow a bottle of painkillers first.
Russell has an autoimmune disorder called dermatographic ...READ MORE›
French artist Arnaud Lapierre has unveiled an eye-popping new outdoor installation at the 18th-century Place Vendôme in Paris. Lapierre took the plaza’s Vendôme column, a vaulting bronze obelisk from the Napoleonic era, and set ...READ MORE›
If you’re an insurance company trying to come up with a memorable branding strategy, you can go the gecko route and get cute, or you can do what the Dublin-based insurance giant XL did: As a company that claims to be “risk ...READ MORE›
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