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The 10 Most Creative People on Twitter

When we launched our 100 Most Creative People in Business list last year, we were surprised that only 20 of those individuals were on Twitter. In the year since, another 10 have joined. But out of those tweeting who do you need to follow?READ»

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Lights, Camera, Action: Take the Living Climate Change Challenge

A new competition sponsored by IDEO and Design 21 hopes to launch a positive, design-centered conversation about climate change through the power of video.READ»

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One Man's Junk Is a Storyteller's Treasure

In his monologue that closes out the industrial design film Objectified, reviewed here back in March, it's clear that columnist and author Rob Walker is perplexed by our obsession with material culture. He even goes so far as to ...READ»

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Watch Your Back Depp: Design Films Are On a Roll

A wave of design documentaries are unlikely crowd pleasers.READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Jennifer Bove: Kick-Starting a New Firm in Trying Times

I first met Jennifer Bove in Austin, Texas, at the annual interactive hootenanny SXSW. We had just watched the premiere of the industrial design film Objectified at the Paramount Theater and, after being introduced by a mutual ...READ»

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Why Are the Most Creative People in Business Skipping Out on Web 2.0?

These days, we're all public figures. We're sharing our friends on Facebook, our photos on Flickr, our music on Last.fm, and our goofy links insightful observations on Twitter. So when Fast Company set out to capture ...READ»

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Carbon Credits Miss the Point

It may not be a popular thing to say, but all the feel-good talk about carbon emission policies may be obscuring a bigger and more important problem: Our society's long-entrenched habit of rampant over- consumption. When we focus ...READ»

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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»

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'Objectified' Review: A Hurricane of Consumer Values

    There's a moment, at the beginning of the documentary Objectified, where Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, takes his iPhone out of his pocket and wipes it along the hem of his shirt to remove the ...READ»

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The Stars of 'Objectified' Discuss the Future of Stuff at SXSW

The South by Southwest festival in Austin hosted the world premiere of Objectified, a film by Gary Hustwit, the celebrated director of Helvetica, the fascinating and unlikely story behind a font you see absolutely ...READ»

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Does Apple Really Own Multitouch?

The Macintosh turned 25 years old this past weekend, and Apple seems to be celebrating the occasion by unleashing its blood-lusting attorneys on Palm in a potential patent infringement suit.READ»

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Gary Hustwit's "Objectified" [video]

Gary Hustwit's documentary about the ubiquitous Helvetica font was an instant classic for design geeks. He's now turned his lens on process behind product design in "Objectified." Above is the just-released trailer. In the film, ...READ»