Topic: Kurt Andersen

Branding Bunny Burgers

Branding's a pretty brutal business, as any designer will tell you. But for a look at the complicated issues around pushing a product you can't quite get behind, it doesn't get much better than this hilarious prank by the sweet, ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 47

"Many things matter, and here's what matters most."READ»

If It Quacks Like a Duck...

In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates." Andersen artfully ...READ»

Changing the Game - Again

Back in 1995, when we launched Fast Company, our most valuable asset was our originality. What was different about the magazine? Its message. Its language. Its design. Most important, its promise to readers. Nobody talked about ...READ»

A Monthly Column on Culture

Anne Here's my take on business and the natural order. Synergy was all a big mistake. Nature is hardwired for antisynergy. Do coyotes collaborate with sheep? Do fish empower dragonflies in the pond? Naturally, that brings AOL Time ...READ»

Culture

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

Culture

Anne Having read each new newspaper story about the impending war with Iraq, I'm familiar with (and not entirely unsympathetic to) the Bush administration's rationale: We need to prevent Saddam from deploying biological and nuclear ...READ»

iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation worked a double shift, popped a couple of brewskis, and then fell asleep in his work clothes. Here's today's innovation news: The family can stop worrying: Jeff Bezos got a warehouse job in ...READ»

State of the New Economy

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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»

• 'Objectified' Review: A Hurricane of Consumer Values