Topic: Cuba

Return of La Buena Vida: Conran Poised for Cuban Invasion

Sir Terence Conran, the designer and founder of the Conran Shop, has made preparations to design a dozen hotels and resorts in Cuba. Sir Terence, who revolutionized the sale and marketing of home furnishings in the sixties and ...READ»

Smoke Ring

Introducing the cast of "My Dinner with Mondo Cigarro."READ»

Viva Recycling!

Now here's what we call creativity. In Cuba, where new things are rare, a phone gets turned into an electric fan, and a plastic bottle becomes a taxi sign.READ»

Smoker's Delight

Our six hand-picked aficionados share a fine meal and swap the finer points of lighting up with style.READ»

Single Malt, One Smoke

Preferred pairings.READ»

Will That Be a Table for One?

Fast Company focuses on five restaurants where solo diners can go for more than a good meal.READ»

Work/Life: Spam Me Baby, Just Make My Day

I say, I say, these spammers and solicitors are getting really enterprising. Not only do I get an email from Fred Smith almost immediately after I send an email to Fred Smith, and they're not the same Fred Smith, I received a ...READ»

Partying in the Name of Art

This is what Art Basel Miami looks like: it's Wednesday night at the Mondrian, the city's hottest new hotel, and a crowd is gathering for the official opening party -- a cocktail soiree toasting Marcel Wanders, the hotel's designer.READ»

• Design Stars Shine at Marcel Wanders Event
• Scene Report: Art Basel Miami 2008

Loose Lips Burn Ships

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

Work/Life: Banksy and Hilton: Getting it right by being very wrong

I've just been to the Banksy exhibition in NY. For those who are unfamiliar with this wildly popular subversive artist (where have you been for the past hour?) , Banksy is the anti-war, anti-capitalistic graffitist who pulled off ...READ»

Slow Cities

Urban centers that are going nowhere … slowlyREAD»

When Should Government Intervene?

These days it's hard to go anywhere without hearing people say that the government should step in and do something about the offshoring trend -- that hemorrhaging of service sector (and, increasingly, of white collar) jobs from the ...READ»

It's Time to Disambiguate

No, this isn’t a call for revolution. Disambiguation is the process by which paid search on the Internet tries to get smarter by understanding semantics, context and the intentions of the person doing the searching. For example, ...READ»

On not biting the feedback that feeds you

"Patronize your local, even if it's a little more expensive. Otherwise, one day, it won't be there." My mother's words, which I've adhered to for years, even when relatively skint. But do you "support ...READ»

Work/Life: When did you last give your customer some business?

I recently sat through a 1 hour family musical co-written by one of my customers, Karl Greenburg. It was a low-budget NY Fringe Festival production called Angela's Flying Bed. Now what was I, a single income no kidder with an ...READ»

Contributors

ALICE RAWSTHORN A Londoner since 1980, Alice Rawsthorn has kept a knowing eye on the city's creative community, which blossomed, she says, "in a ramshackle, grassroots way." Formerly the director of the Design Museum and a ...READ»

What Recession? Designers Storm the Waldorf for Gala

Despite the eco-friendly cardboard centerpieces, the ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria, with its velvet draperies and glittering chandeliers was an uncomfortably swanky venue for the annual AIGA Design Legends gala in a year when the ...READ»

Censorship Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders, the association devoted to press freedom worldwide, released its annual report this week. The section devoted to the Internet reveals that Net censorship is far more pervasive than you would think. Twenty ...READ»

The Devil’s Paint Brush within Organizational Leadership

The Philosophy of LeaderShaping, the off-spring of the “Six Levels of Leadership,” depends heavily on “Communications” and “Intelligence” to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result ...READ»

3 Honda Concepts for the Tokyo Motor Show

At the end of this month we'll see a parade of cool concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show. Honda has been releasing teasers of what it'll be showing--interesting stuff that's geared to the changes in community brought on by the rise of ...READ»

The Personality Behind Online Gaming Site Bodog

Mountains of cash, beautiful women, and a nonstop round-the-world party. Life was good for Calvin Ayre, founder of the online gambling powerhouse Bodog. Then he was gone.READ»

• Infographic: Global Online-Gaming Revenue
• 7 Fabulous Things You Probably Shouldn't Buy

What the world needs now is ... Soft Capitalism

While meandering around the Murray Hill district of Manhattan,  I was stopped dead by an intriguing sign: "Sal Anthony, famous Italian chef, has gone raw!" An Italian Chef going raw? Is that like a Chanel shopper going ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events April 2009

What's happening in AprilREAD»

• Numerology: The Golf Economy
• Celebrate: Dilbert's 20th Birthday

The Power of One

"My objective in life is not to have a spiritual life that is separate from the rest of my life." -- Ed McCracken, CEO, Silicon Graphics "My business is my ministry," proclaims Judy Wicks, founder and maitre d' of Philadelphia's ...READ»

If Your Goal Is Success, Don't Consult These Gurus

For years, motivational speakers have celebrated a Yale study on why people succeed. It's powerful! Compelling! Too bad it doesn't exist.READ»