Congratulations to Jonathan Ive, Apple's lead designer, for earning the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The Fast Company master of design was recently named to the Queen’s New Year’s Honours ...READ»
At a recent London screening of the new documentary about industrial design, Objectified, Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive joined Marc Newson to introduce the film. The event wasn't exactly a love-note to contemporary ...READ»
Ten years ago, before the iPod and the iPhone became objects of the world's electro-lust, Jonathan Ive sat down with Fast Company to talk about his first Apple blockbuster, the iMac. The machine could not have been a more radical ...READ»
My grandfather used to paint. He wasn't particularly good at it, but he found it calming. He would also make collages with found objects. I look at his work sometimes and try to figure out the stories he was trying to tell (he's been ...READ»
“First, I’d like to apologize for my attire, and its lack of festiveness,” Paul Simon, wearing a tasteful, but banker-like business suit, said to the largely black-clad crowd at last week’s National Design Awards. Simon was ...READ»
No matter what you do for a living, design matters. Meet and learn from 20 visionary men and women who are using design to create not just new products, but new ways of working, leading, and seeing.READ»
Computers are a commodity: They're all the same shape and color. The iMac changes all of that. Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac, describes the rules behind design that has power, passion, and purpose -- design that makes us buy.READ»
Radiolaria is designed by Shiro Studio architects, and it's a pretty cool free-form structure that will act as a pavilion. But perhaps the coolest thing about it is that its designer is using the worlds largest rapid-prototyping ...READ»
Boeing's newest research aircraft got a public unveiling yesterday, which is interesting for such a future-facing aircraft that's surely destined for a ton of cloak-and-dagger work. It's an unmanned spy plane, and even its looks are ...READ»
As you slept last night, and Roger Federer drowned his sorrows in the Chalkdust pub in Wimbledon, innovation was putting on the pancake makeup and stepping out of its FEMA trailer for a YouTube appearance. 1. While Hurricane Alex ...READ»
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»
In the past months I’ve read several articles and blogs about the possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple, could succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. As far as I can tell this is only a rumor, but it prompts the ...READ»
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»
Design recruiter RitaSue Siegel divulges what companies want in design executives (think Apple), why collaborative is the new cocky, and how the bottom line is as important as blueprints.READ»
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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