[This is the first in a series of posts drawn from a sprawling survey we conducted about the state of American design.—Ed.]
This question has been troubling me for some time. Have we lost our edge at a particularly dynamic (and ...READ»
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.
Even the most celebrated American design ...READ»
Bruce Nussbaum was right to close the book on Design Thinking. It is time to move on. Business never really got the message. What businesses continue to care about is innovation. While designers may think that innovation requires ...READ»
It's easy to forget the commitments you shared with family and friends in the fading hours of 2010. That's the trick with New Year's resolutions: They rarely stick for very long. We can often chalk these failures up to faults in ...READ»
Can designers really help when it comes to social issues? Robert Fabricant outlines eight lessons he has learned from social impact partnerships. READ»
The real road kill this time will not be the Kindle. It will be handheld video gaming devices like Sony's PSP and the Nintendo DS, as Apple establishes a lock on the economics of casual gaming with its newest device.READ»
Forget the smartphone. This is a war between Super Phones, baby. And with Apple pitted against Google, it's a brand war as much as a technology one. Robert Fabricant outlines some strategies on how to win it.READ»
Two years ago, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York displayed 30 humanitarian design and engineering projects, including a biodegradable shelter, a low-tech food cooler, and a straw that helps prevent the spread of ...READ»
Designers, corporate leaders, foundation heads and journalists meet next month in Aspen to solidify plans for a national design center in Alabama to study and alleviate rural poverty.READ»
As a participant in the recent Pacific Health Summit, I was struck by the bold talk of innovative approaches to addressing the global threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). And yet few of the projects that were ...READ»
I hope I got your attention with my last post about the Pacific Health Summit and the acute global threat of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). All of the issues around innovation in public health that I are covered in this ...READ»
We're back with the final installation of this week's cell phone roundtable. We choose the topic, put forth a few questions to our panel, and bring the most provocative answers back to you. This week, with more details about the ...READ»
With more details about the Palm Pre and some rumors about Apple’s 2009 iPhone event on Tuesday, it seemed a good time to gather our design experts together and ponder some issues about our love affair with mobile. Today's question: How can cell phones be used to improve the world?READ»
