The announcement that the 2014 Super Bowl will take place in New York has raised eyebrows for one big reason: weather.
Of the decision, Greg Cote of the Miami Herald wrote: “The NFL, with this open-air Jersey Super Bowl, has ...READ»
“The early adopters among you are likely to notice…” writes SXSW in a blog post dissecting their new iPhone app. Yes, early adopters are taking notice and descending upon the Mecca of Indie Creative Geek festivals...READ»
An Italian furniture designer fell in love with American design at an early age, but was disappointed by its current state. So he relocated to the U.S. to help shake things up.READ»
Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now Tero Ojanperä is launching the world's biggest delivery system for services, apps, and entertainment.READ»
Savannah, Georgia is probably the last place you'd expect to find a bubbling hub of design innovation. But one visit to the boutique that sells the work by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design and you'll see that this is not some student shop; this is a world-class design store.READ»
When we named Steve McCallion as a Master of Design in 2006, we called him "The Mind Reader"--a title you don't just toss around haphazardly. But in his role as executive creative director at Ziba Design, in the burgeoning creative ...READ»
BETHEL, NY, MAY 8, 2007 – The teeming rivers and streams of the Catskills region in New York have long been considered the “Birthplace of American Fly Fishing,” with fly fishing roots dating back to the late 19th century. It ...READ»
Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, is going to be redesigned, and a proposed master plan just leaked to YouTube.
Because of the extreme sensitivity of the project, details about the redesign have been sparse. Nonetheless, it ...READ»
Women's rights in the Islamic world are grim; even in Turkey, which has a secular government, feminism is still a foreign concept. But Zeynep Fadillioglu has quietly pulled off a coup: She's the first woman in Turkey to design ...READ»
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By Donald Schwartz, FC Technology Moderator
Author’s Note: This story is a work in progress covering the ...READ»
Brands are less and less about what we buy, and more and more about who we are. That means your cola can't just taste good. It has to feel good, too.READ»
"Those who out of cowardice use their wealth to pay Danegeld to the preachers of hate and destruction must be taught that this aggression will boomerang. A nuclear war stirred up against the 'infidels' might end up displacing Mecca ...READ»
What happens when the defining industry of the old economy meets the defining medium of the new economy? Meet the in-the-trenches change agents who are working to reinvent Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen.READ»
Anita Borg is a living legend among computer scientists. She is also leading a worldwide movement to redesign the relationship between women and technology. Some of the world's most powerful technology companies are finally paying attention.READ»
Buckman Labs makes chemicals -- but it sells knowledge. The challenge: invent a way for the global salesforce to spend more time with customers and share its brainpower.READ»
People don’t have to buy what big business sells. The music business knows this all too well. What still sells is honesty and great beats. There is little of that on MTV and less on major-label Hip Hop. But “little” isn’t the ...READ»
