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Straight Talk On American Design | Part 2

  Straight Talk On American Design By Fast Company Staff We asked dozens of designers to critique U.S. design. They're not a bashful bunch.   In the past 15 years, the U.S. market has ...READ»

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The Future Of Subway Swiping

Take a good look at these transit cards -- thanks to new technology, they might be on their way out.READ»

For MoMA's New Exhibition "Talk to Me," They'd Like You to Talk to Them

A new MoMA show will focus on the communication between people and objects, as enabled by design. In that spirit, the curators have opened up their process to the public.READ»

Sweet Stank of Innovation Wafts Across Parsons' Scent Symposium

Panelists from IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.), product designers, researchers, neurobiologists, architects, and design critics discuss scent as a design tool--and get the full olfactory array, from "partnership" to "sexy time," "birth" to "death," and more. READ»

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MoMA Acquires "@" Symbol. "WTF" Next?

New York's Museum of Modern Art is adding the ubiquitous typographic icon to its permanent collection. Here's the story behind the acquisition.READ»

Design Challenge of the Day: What Should Quarantine Look Like?

In the wake of swine flu and body scans, designers reimagine isolation.READ»

Ron Arad at MoMA: Who Needs Discipline?

Designer Ron Arad’s exhibition at MoMA is a lot about "no." No limits. No right angles. No expense spared.READ»

MOMA's "No Discipline" Show

Israeli-born designer Ron Arad "is the most curious person I know," says Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. "We titled the show 'No Discipline' because so many designers choose ...READ»

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Paola Antonelli on Designing Ideas, Not Products

When we named Paola Antonelli as a 2007 Master of Design, she hinted at her upcoming exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, which included both actual and virtual objects by designers that "explore design's response to ...READ»

Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes Preview [video]

Dutch designers are usually the brainy class clowns of design shows, with their ironic, off-kilter work. None has gained more attention in recent years than Hella Jongerius.   Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes from ...READ»

Objectified: The New Design Film That Sickens, Inspires

"Your movie made me physically sick," one audience member told Gary Hustwit (left), the director of Objectified, the eagerly anticipated film about industrial design, last night at a screening in New York. Far from ...READ»