Design

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

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

Picassos With Pixels: 12 Groundbreaking Pieces of Digital Art

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

From Treestumps to Transformers: Dutch Laud Top Interior Design of '09

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:38:25 -0500

Making the Mall More Family-Friendly

Alissa Walker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:24:37 -0500

Rise and Sprawl: How Los Angeles Came to Be

Alissa Walker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:20:11 -0500

Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:23 -0500

The Enduring Genius of Dieter Rams

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:30 -0500

Six Decades of Monumental Architecture: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Sheryl Sulistiawan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:27:02 -0500

Opening Today: Konstantin Grcic's "Decisive Designs" at the Art Institute of Chicago

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:20:33 -0500

Art House: The Private Spaces of 8 Great Artists

Sheryl Sulistiawan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:48:38 -0500

David Rockwell Gets Academy Award Gig Second Year Running

Addy Dugdale — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:14:47 -0500

The Biggest Stories of Our Time, Visualized

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:15:50 -0500

Phaidon's 100-Year, 1000-Product Survey of Design

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:33:20 -0500

Plot Jewelry Is Neckwear for Data Fiends

Addy Dugdale — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:38:52 -0500

A couple of employees of ad agency W+K have come up with one of the kookier ideas in recent memory: data-driven jewelry. After scores of meetings, planner Lisa Prince noticed that data was being packaged up in ever increasingly-beautiful ways. So she teamed up with fellow W+K employee, art director Nicholla Long, to create Plot jewelry, described as "a brand that takes interesting data and transforms it into wearable art."

Masters of Design 2009 Event

Fast Company staff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:53 -0400

Fast Company's annual October Masters of Design issue, featuring David Butler, VP of Global Design for Coca-Cola on the cover, opens with a never-been-done treatment promoting Porsche's new Panamera, the world's first true sports car for four. To celebrate the special issue, more than 300 of the country’s design all-stars attended a VIP event on October 21 at Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. Masters of Design 2009 content is featured online at www.fastcompany.com/design/2009

Sugar and Vice: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back

Mary-Louise Price — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:45:19 -0400

Full Throttle: Vintage Motorcycles, Custom Choppers, and Racing Machines

Ken Carbone — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:30:06 -0400

This slideshow highlights five of my favorite custom bikes from the exhibition, Full Throttle: Vintage Motorcycles, Custom Choppers, and Racing Machines at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. I’ve limited the technical information because I have no idea how to describe the impressive features of these motorcycles. More importantly, I want to avoid incurring the wrath of any burly bikers who may be reading this should I confuse a brake caliper with a clutch housing. The exhibition is up until October 25, 2009.

How InterContinental Is Redesigning The World's Largest Hotel Chain

Alissa Walker — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:05 -0400

With more than 3,200 hotels around the world, InterContinental Hotel Group's Holiday Inn is the most recognized and most popular hotel brand in the world--every second, three people check into a Holiday Inn property. This year, the hotel embarked upon a massive global relaunch, the largest in hospitality history. And after conducting extensive research to find out what was important to their guests, Holiday Inn focused on several physical changes in the hotels and rooms.

Negative Space: The Inside-Out Illustrations of Noma Bar

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:15:05 -0400

Noma Bar, an Israel-born illustrator based in London, tackles politically charged issues with eloquence and wit; his subjects range from Iraq to corporate greed, and his work appears regularly in The Economist, Esquire, Wallpaper, and The Guardian. He works by honing the negative space of a drawing, so that it adds nuance to the dominant subject he’s depicting--the meaning snaps into focus only after a split-second. His best work gives you the feeling of a light bulb, popping in your head.

Scene Report: Art Basel Miami 2008

Linda Tischler — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:57:09 -0500

I guess it takes getting out of New York, and a reprieve from constantly watching CNBC to make you realize that not all the world is fixated on the Dow.

Miami, of course, is one of the centers of the subprime mayhem, but last night, at the opening of Design/Miami 2008, revelers were partying like it was 1929.

The Designer-Small Biz Connection

Rachel King — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:49:06 -0400

If you want your business to be noticed, design is everything. However, a lot of startups and small businesses often don’t have the budget for an in-house design department. In an effort to facilitate the connection between freelance designers and small businesses, there’s 99designs, an online crowdsourcing contest that creates a forum for designers to showcase their work and win new clients. The Melbourne, Australia-based operation just opened up their American headquarters in San Francisco.

Redesigning a Brand

Rachel King — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:37:13 -0400

Redesigning a magazine's layout doesn’t just update it – it revolutionizes it. Luke Hayman, an art director with the design firm, Pentagram, spoke to an audience of about 50 students and professors at the final meeting of the Delacorte Lecture Series at Columbia Journalism School on April 24. Hayman explained that any redesign has to be a careful process, as a magazine represents a brand and a particular audience base.

Designing the Future

Rachel King — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:35:47 -0400

Fast, and Not So Fast

Ginger Zumaeta — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:41:21 -0500

OK, so I really like FastCompany. Consistently good, compelling articles . . . but I don't read it, I listen to the magazine that I download from audible.com. I have too many trade magazines and email newsletters to contend with at work to sit down and really read the extended features. So, I turned my L.A. commute (and I've got one of the shorter ones, under half an hour) into a time to listen to FastCompany. Yay, Fast!

Good and bad

Ian Leong — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:10 -0500

I like the concept - that whether you are logged in or not governs how the site is personalized.

I have quite a number of thoughts and will address each separately as I come across them, rather than providing a full review of the site in one go.

Site Advisors & Testers