Topic: Marcel Wanders

The Marcel Wanders Collection You Won't See at Target This Holiday

The witty Dutch designer played it safe for the discount retailer, but a new behind-the-scenes look book released by his studio reveals the Christmas that could have been.READ»

Marcel Wanders Designs a Device to Slash Energy Use

This week Eneco, a Dutch energy company, kicked off a "battle of the watt" to challenge people to lower their energy use. The device, naturally, was designed by Marcel Wanders. Produced by Innovaders, the Wattcher ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Design

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Design.READ»

Design Stars Shine at Marcel Wanders Event

Inside the luncheon at Art Basel Miami celebrating the opening of the Miami Beach Mondrian, the first hotel created by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.READ»

• Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian
• Masters of Design

Balance

I just realized that my blog posts tend to be questions rather than sharing some sort of insight and this one is no different. As I read articles about people like Marcel Wanders and think about classic control freaks like ...READ»

Dishing with the 2008 Masters of Design

Marcel Wanders talked about the fairy tale that informed the design of the new Mondrian Hotel in Miami, and the fear he has to face down every time he begins a new project. John Maeda spoke of design's hidden return on investment --  ...READ»

It's All-Feeling All the Time at Masters of Design Gala 2008

I attended the Annual Masters of Design (MOD) Gala that was held yesterday night at (appropriately) the recently opened Museum of Art and Design where Marcel Wanders, world-renowned Dutch designer, John Maeda, president of Rhode ...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

Gold Gun? Lego Chair? Droog Store Opens in the U.S.!

If you’ve been pining after Tejo Remy’s drunken chest of drawers--with its secret compartment containing a gold gun, a line of cocaine, and a diamond ring--but can’t tear yourself away from the plunging Nasdaq to get to ...READ»

What Makes Dutch Design So Dutch?

An open competition seeking ingenious repairs proves that in the Netherlands, high-end design principals are practically a national motto.READ»

Feedback

Celebrating Design "Creative people should always try to do things they can't do," Marcel Wanders told guests at Fast Company's Masters of Design party in New York. "That's when creativity is needed." But what can design do, asked ...READ»

Letter From the Editor of Fast Company: Shock Value

If I had thought ahead, I would have gotten a pedicure. A few weeks ago, I was at an executive retreat and found myself in a strategy session that took place in an open-air porch. All of us were sporting shorts (or skirts) and bare ...READ»

The Puzzle Switch and Five Other Low-Tech Designs That Increase Energy Awareness

Our electricity use is invisible, so we consume it without much thought. That's a problem, and two Swedish designers are tackling it with clever, low-tech designs meant to make us a bit more conscious of the energy we use. They're ...READ»

Dutch Design Arrives in New York

This Satuday, the Cite gallery will open up 400 Years Later: Cite Goes Dutch, a month-long design exhibition. Curated by Alissia Melka-Teichroew and Jan Habraken--both young Dutch designers living in New York--the exhibition focuses ...READ»

Fast Company October 2008 Contributors

Jake Chessum When photographer Jake Chessum spotted Marcel Wanders's logo -- his face sporting a fake nose and the words "handle with love" -- on a roll of packing tape, he thought, Why not wrap Wanders up in it? ...READ»

Bling-Bling Design's Last Hurrah

Design in the last few years has been enjoying it's own bubble, as the mega-rich hovered up $50,000 tables and million-dollar chaise lounges. Not any more. And as a symbol of that gilded age, the newly opened Mondrian South Beach, ...READ»

Funky Fresh: Ace Hotel's New Breed of Design Comes to New York

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»

Design Develops Body Issues

An intriguing exhibit at SFMOMA explores designs that take cues from the human body.READ»

From Overwrought to Overly Simple: Is Green Design Anti-Style?

Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had ...READ»

Milan Report: Design's Most Valuable Player

Five reasons why Tom Dixon will triumph at this year’s furniture fair.READ»

ICFF Wrap-Up: The End of Luxe

With high-end furniture in eclipse, the furniture fair looks for a new esthetic of efficiency.READ»

Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian

As his multipart empire expands into the U.S., Marcel Wanders's moment has come. He's riding it for all it's worth. READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Marcel Wanders’s South Beach Mondrian
• The Vision of John Maeda

Letter From the Editor: The Best Rivalry in Business, Refreshed

When you're in the media business, you worry about the cost -- and the risk -- of creating a new product from scratch each time. Movies, music, magazines: We all share the same challenge. In comparison, the idea of creating the same ...READ»

Change Observer: A New Site Covering the Growing Field of Social Design

A hub for serious design commentary takes on the design field's new emphasis on problem solving for the people.READ»

The Standard Hotel's Stunning Video Collage of Heaven and Hell

A video artist assembles hundreds of movie clips into one stunning piece inspired by Dante's Inferno.READ»