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Failure Is Glorious

BY Ian Wylie
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Alberto Alessi transformed his family's ho-hum housewares business into a trendsetting design giant. His secret: walking the borderline between genius and failure.READ»

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Masters of Design 2009

BY Fast Company Staff
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This year's design issue features an array of dazzling talent: Coke's pop artist David Butler, Pentagram's infomaniac Lisa Strausfeld, the impresario David Rockwell, British architect David Adjaye, and the maestro of Italian design, Alberto Alessi. Plus, the women reinventing consumer electronics, China's answer to Nike and more...READ»

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French Design Master: "I'm a Kind of E.T."

BY Cliff Kuang
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Matali Crasset talks to FastCompany.com about her development as a designer, and how growing up on a farm keeps her ideas fresh.READ»

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Celebrate Failure

BY Richard Watson
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You don't read about failure very often. And I'm not just talking about ideas that don't see the light of day. I'm talking about people too. Why is this? What are we afraid of? After all, it's not as if it's unknown. Most companies -- ...READ»

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Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask

BY Richard Watson
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This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck... “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527) One of the ...READ»

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Letter From the Editor: The Best Rivalry in Business, Refreshed

BY Robert Safian
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When you're in the media business, you worry about the cost -- and the risk -- of creating a new product from scratch each time. Movies, music, magazines: We all share the same challenge. In comparison, the idea of creating the same ...READ»