Design

Color Me Glad: Pantone Picks the Hue of 2010

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:28:02 -0500

Six Architectural Bloopers

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:12:17 -0500

Amazing Feets: 13 Cutting-Edge Kicks for Style-Obsessed Shoe-Gazers

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:43:56 -0500

Official Rule: Spot the Difference Sweepstakes

Fast Company staff — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:32:40 -0500

Official Rules- Spot the Difference Sweepstakes

Design Crimes: Philadelphia's Awful New Logo

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:34:25 -0500

On December 8 at approximately 13:00, Officer witnessed a crime in progress, in Philadelphia: A new logo for the city promising, "Life, Liberty, and You™"

Designers Know How to Recognize a Great Package

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:55:12 -0500

If you're gonna design a trophy for a packaging-design award, that trophy better be pretty damn cool.

Eye Candy of the Day: 300 of the World's Hottest Poster Designs

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:48:40 -0500

The Typo/graphic Posters project has relaunched its omnibus of typopgraphic genius, which features a curated selection of posters done by over 300 designers and agencies from around the world.

Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Hot Air in the Global Warming "Debate"

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:18:18 -0500

Track Air Pollution on Your Cell Phone

Anya Kamenetz — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:55:04 -0500

Image: Tiny air quality sensors from Seacoast Science.

At Last: Virgin Galactic Unveils Passenger Spaceplane

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -0500

Picassos With Pixels: 12 Groundbreaking Pieces of Digital Art

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:17:13 -0500

Google Unveils Real Time Search, Translation, Image Searching, Goggles...Awkwardly

Kit Eaton — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:55:35 -0500

Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you. But man, Google needs to hone its presentation style.

Real Time Search

You Vote: Top 10 Viral Sensations From 2009

Fast Company staff — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:09:21 -0500

The Nine Coolest Subway Stations in the World

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:03:33 -0500

American subways suck--no surprise there. But you'd probably be surprised at just how remarkable subways can be in other countries.

Infographic of the Day: The Year's Top Stories on Digg.com

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:44:20 -0500

Hard to believe, but on Friday, Digg celebrated its fifth anniversary. To mark that occasion, they've unveiled Digg365, a fantastic visualization of the most popular stories of the year.

PearlTrees: Swing Between Related Content Like Tarzan

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:28:29 -0500

Friday Fun: The Chicest Gear for Post-Apocalypse Savages

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:57:50 -0500

Well designed change will draw people in

Melissa Dutmers — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:44:16 -0500

There’s a reason Tim Brown, CEO of the design firm IDEO, titled his book, Change by Design. There’s a reason Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, titled his book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage.

Why? Because successful change happens by design.

Infographic of the Day: Tiger's Problems vs. Jay-Z's

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:43:17 -0500

Today is Jay-Z's birthday--he's 40! It's also marks the last weekday in the Worst Week Ever for Tiger Woods. Jay-Z has complained about his 99 Problems; Tiger's got at least as many. How do their problems compare?

"We Could've Stopped Global Warming...We Didn't"

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:25:03 -0500

Next week, the 15th U.N. Climate Change Congress convenes in Copenhagen--and the world leaders and functionaries passing through the airport might be met with a bracing message: A new series of ads, created by Arc Communications for Greenpeace, which depicts aged world leaders ruing what might have been, if they'd acted more decisively.

Will Honda’s new Concept Car make it to Miami Streets?

Brickell Honda — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:17:25 -0500

Honda has recently debut its new “Neo-Urban” vehicle dubbed the Honda P-NUT
at the Los Angeles Auto show. This vehicle of the future seats three
passengers and features a center-driving configuration. The objective
for the design of the vehicle was to explore the new type of
small-segment vehicle. The vehicle, which is shaped like a Porsche 911,
has a rear engine and rear-wheel drive. As of now the vehicle has no

Can You Solve these Typographic Riddles? (Help Us, Then, Please)

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:00:46 -0500

Harry Pierce, a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram, is an avid collector of a type of puzzle the British call conundrums, graphic representations of common phrases. They can be devilishly hard, and when you find out the answer, you usually slap your head.

Bilbao's Newest Park Is a Gem

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:48:55 -0500

Roy Lichtenstein-Inspired, Seizure-Inducing Interiors

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:58:25 -0500

Everyone knows the comic-book inspired work of Roy Lichtenstein. But for some, a measly painting just isn't enough. They'd prefer to actually live inside of one.

Design Crisis has rounded up some amazing examples, like this interior by Jeffrey Miller.

Global Greening Lifestyles: Japan

Jody Turner — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:43:08 -0500