Topic: Autodesk Inc.

How the IT Sector Can Become a Legitimate Climate Solutions Provider

The IT industry has long enjoyed a reputation as a "clean" industry, representing significant GDP growth relative to its greenhouse gas footprint (for example, see "Earth Calling: The Environmental Impacts of the Mobile ...READ»

With Sketchbook for iPhone, Autodesk Wants to Democratize High-Tech Design

A company known for niche design programs ventures into the mass market. But why?READ»

Autodesk Offers Free Carbon Management Tool for Businesses

Autodesk, a popular architecture design software company known for its AutoCAD software, is no stranger to green building techniques. But its new methodology for tracking corporate carbon emissions, dubbed C-FACT (Corporate Finance ...READ»

100 Most Creative People in Business: #20 - Dawn Danby

Dawn Danby pops upover a Skype connection on the screen of my computer, holding up her laptop to the camera mounted in another. The machine in her hands shows a screen shot of Ecotect, a building-design program that represents the ...READ»

The True Sustainability Potential of Cloud Computing: Smarter Design

To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ»

Can Autodesk Make Green Building Accessible to the Masses?

Autodesk, a popular architecture design software brand, is best known for its AutoCAD software. But the company, which we designated as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies last year, is betting that upgraded versions of its ...READ»

Why Architecture Needs to Take Advantage of Natural Resources

Environmentally conscious vernacular architecture is making a comeback, says Autodesk's John F. Kennedy--and there are hundreds of millions of existing buildings on the planet that need to become energy- and resource-efficient.READ»

Good Intention and Rounding Errors: Occupational Hazards of Sustainable Design

An occupational hazard of working in sustainable design is the constant reminder that everything has impact. For everything in your field of view, materials and energy were wrestled from the ground and shipped around the earth in ...READ»

Who's Teaching Whom?

It's getting harder to tell the students from the teachers.READ»

Why Are the Majority of Things We Consume Inherently Unsustainable?

Although we've made great strides in sustainability--Wal-Mart, for example, has taken a huge step forward by setting a new standard for green manufacturing with its Sustainable Product Index--the majority of products, buildings, and ...READ»

Autodesk's SketchBook Goes Mobile, Has Pressure-Sensitive Brushes

Art nerds know that Autodesk's SketchBook Pro is the go-to animation for illustrators, but what they'll learn tomorrow morning is that it's also a powerful tool on the go. SketchBook Mobile is the handheld edition of its popular ...READ»

The Future is Younger Than You Think

If you're working to create products for the 21st century, why not work alongside the people who live there already? Eye-opening lessons from Xerox, Autodesk, and Compaq on the power of the inexperience curve.READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

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Restoring Trust Through Sustainable Excellence

The combination of innovation, globalization, and natural resource limits present two distinctly different futures: one that delivers dignified lives to more of the world's people than ever before, the other hits a brick wall brought on by a consumption-based model that the planet cannot sustain.READ»

Guilty by Association: The Colors of Christmas (and Other Holidays)

When it comes to branding and identity, red and green have been labeled taboo due to their Christmasy connotations.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog

Buyer Beware: Risks of Purchasing Used Software

According to used software dealers the savings can be as much as 50% compared to purchasing new licenses. But there are still risks involved in purchasing used software and continuing court cases in Europe on this subject oblige vigilance from multi-national organizations. READ»

Fast 50 Updates

Thirty-three of the companies on last year's Fast Company 50 didn't make the list this time. But that doesn't mean they've lost their luster. Here's what they've been up to.READ»

Can't We Change?

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Co-Create “Like You Give a Damn”

From Buenos Aires to Biloxi, architects anywhere can design emergency shelters for those who lost their homes in Sri Lanka. They may never meet in person or tour buildings they designed yet they can now see each other and their ...READ»

An Inconvenient Portfolio

Al Gore's financial-services startup, Generation Investment Management, buys shares in companies that fit its founders' definition of sustainability. The firm doesn't disclose holdings, but public filings reveal some familiar names--Whole Foods, Staples, and General Electric. Here's a sampling of seven other lesser-known stocks in the portfolio as of March 31.READ»

App Store for the Mac: Will It Be a Home Run?

The iPhone and iPad app store has been a huge success for Apple. Can Steve Jobs make lightning strike a third time -- on the Mac? Here's why it may be a little more difficult.READ»

Fixing Conferences: Six Lessons From the Designers Accord Summit

A new way to organize small groups, a focus on a deliverable, and declaring the conference a Twitter-free zone were a few successful elements of a recent meeting of design educators.READ»

• Valerie Casey's Networked Culture blog

IBM's Decade of Smart: Making Money by Making Sense of Data

On Tuesday, IBM CEO and chairman Sam Palmisano unwrapped the second phase of its already-ubiquitious "Smarter Planet" campaign, pronouncing the 2010s "the decade of smart." His premise: this is the decade in which everything will ...READ»

Building a Sustainable Design Community

Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Critical Mass
• 20 Coolest New Products from Top Design Shops