Topic: Memphis

7 Ways Real-Life Crime Fighting Mirrors "Minority Report"

From Facebook to facial recognition, the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day.READ»

Christie Acquires Assets from Luminetx Corporation

Visual technology leader Christie aacquires Luminetx Corporation, a medical biosciences technology company. Assets include VeinViewer, a technology that locates subcutaneous veins and project a real-time image of their location onto the surface of the skin.READ»

What Is "Industrial Design"?

The demise of I.D. magazine leads Tucker Viemeister to examine the term "industrial design" and what it has meant throughout the years.READ»

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Happy Crazy Holiday Package Mailing Day!

Historically Dec. 15 is the busiest day of the year for FedEx, the day they ship more packages in 24 hours than during any other day of the year. This is slightly surprising in a couple of respects: 1. It shows that ...READ»

Sustaining your business, and sustaining yourself in business

During my graduate studies in Sustainability through Arizona State University I have learned much about organizational strategies built around sustainability initiatives. The definition of sustainability is “meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Sometimes it is referred to in the context of the more commonly known Triple Bottom Line which takes into account an organization’s social, economic, and environmental practices and policies. Plainly put, making money while doing good. Interestingly, when people think of “sustainability” they don’t include the social aspect... READ»

Google's Marissa Mayer Assaults Designers With Data

The keeper of Google's homepage told an audience of shocked graphic designers that the company trusts user testing data over the intuition of its own designers.READ»

AIGA Design Conference

Forget the networking and the keynote speeches at the American Institute for Graphic Artists' summit -- for true design geeks, there's only one reason to attend this biennial creative meet-up: the typographic quiz. Some 200 ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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Introducing Guest Blogger Debbie Millman: Design Matters

As host of the radio show Design Matters, Debbie Millman has introduced over one hundred of the world's greatest designers, illustrators, authors and thinkers as her guests. So let me be the first to tell you how daunting it is to introduce Debbie herself.READ»

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I am marygardner working as a medical consultant in Memphis, I am specializing in Fitness and weight loss. I am currently workingin major hospital and also interested in developing websites retalted to medical science. Now i am ...READ»

Mirimichi: A Green Golf Course, Courtesy of Justin Timberlake

Whether golf courses can ever truly be "green" is a hotly contested topic in the environmental community. An unlikely golf course defender has appeared in the form of pop star Justin Timberlake, a passionate golfer. He recently opened ...READ»

Cameron B Sharpe - iJango

Cameron Sharpe Articles After a six-year hiatus, Julian "JuJu" Marley is back with his third album, "Awake." The Ghetto Youths/Universal release, which he co-produced with his brothers Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and Stephen Marley, drew inspiration from the spirit of Cedella Marley Booker, their grandmother (and Bob Marley's mother), who died in 2008. Marley spoke to Billboard about maturing as an artist, youth-on-youth crime and the family legacy that inspires his music. READ»

Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden

Technology, savvy brand management, and a little bit of soul have made $6.7 billion Darden Restaurants the world's biggest casual-dining operation -- and it's still growing, even in tough times.READ»

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Steve Jobs Was "Sickest Patient" on Liver Donor List

On June 21, FastCompany.com reported on speculation that Apple's mercurial chief executive had undergone a liver transplant, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, the surgery was confirmed by the operating hospital, ...READ»

Did Steve Jobs Have A Liver Transplant?

According to MSNBC, Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have begun his current six-month hiatus from Apple in order to recover from a liver transplant he received in Tennessee. A survivor of pancreatic cancer, Jobs appeared increasingly thin ...READ»

Tokyo for the glare of the television sky

Tokyo for the glare of the television sky, not even the towering hologram logo of the Fuji Electric Company READ»

What's Wrong With Our Cities? A Two-Minute Video Explains

The Congress for New Urbanism recently held a competition to explain just what the connection is between urban planning and the environment--and if you're fuzzy on the issue, you need to watch the winning video, created by John ...READ»

The Business of Barbecue

Where's the beef? During National Barbecue Month, it's usually sizzling over charcoal with pork, poultry, and (sometimes) veggies. As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here's a tasting platter of stats.READ»

From Housing to Banks to Revenue...

Friday, April 24, 2009   SOU Viewing Reminder   To view the 2009 State of the Union videos on Youtube click here.   From Housing… We concluded last week’s edition of the ...READ»

Milan 2009: Boxing Ring Bed

The Tawaraya (boxing ring) bed that once held Memphis design heavyweights fills a room at Galleria Carla Sozzani in Corso Como 10 in one of hundreds of special exhibits tied to the fair. -Janet Eastman See more pictures from ...READ»

Memphis? The "IT" Real Estate Market?

Memphis, TN is home of homes... and it's booming... fast... One real estate market that isn't crashing. Enter Memphis Invest.READ»

March Madness Begins

Last year's NCAA title game ended in OT with Kansas overwhelming Memphis with perseverance ... and free throws. The win scored KU not just bragging rights but also big money. Merchandise tied to the victory earned Kansas more ...READ»

Why a Bowling Shirt Made Me Love David Kelley

It was a Power Point slide of Ettore Sottsass in a bowling shirt that first made Jim Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, want to get to know David Kelley. Fifteen years ago, Hackett remembers, the Ideo founder had been summoned to ...READ»

Now March 2009

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Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"

David Kelley, founder of the design firm Ideo and the Stanford d.school, was leading a charmed existence. Then he felt a lump.READ»

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