Topic: Michael Graves

Liquid Agency collaborates with Michael Graves on product design project.

As the branding agency for Slice - a manufacturer of innovative products that cut, slice, grate, etc. - Liquid Agency is already collaborating with world-class architects and designers like Karim Rashid and Yves Behar. Now, Michael Graves - the renowned architect whose line of products for Target is wildly successful is developing a new line of products for Slice.READ»

With the Advent of Edge Architecture, the Old Boys Are Making Way for Newcomers From Mumbai and Burkina Faso

Move over Foster and Stern: tomorrow's design stars are the ones building schools and community shelters in their native countries.READ»

A Design for Living

After Michael Graves fell ill, his business had one of its best years ever. This great designer's greatest design may be his company.READ»

Target Practice

The Michael Graves-Target partnership is the very model of a successful designer-retailer collaboration. But getting there was an occasionally bumpy ride.READ»

Distilled to Our Essence

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Fast 50 2008: Target

Target's strategy of rolling out capsule collections by well-known designers -- Loeffler Randall shoes and handbags, Erin Fetherston sweaters, Alice Temperley sportswear, Jovovich Hawk dresses -- has been a tried-and-true strategy ...READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Hideous Chic: The World's Ugliest Buildings

Travel & Leisure finds 15 of the ugliest buildings in the world. What on earth were these architects thinking?READ»

Does Your Childhood Home Dictate Your Design Choices?

Get on the couch: A design psychologist says your grandmother’s garden and your father’s den influence your sense of place in ways you don’t understand.READ»

Luxury's Long Tail

Thanks largely to the deluxe-uccinos at Starbucks and the Michael Graves teapot at Target, it's now an article of faith that luxury is within reach of nearly every man, woman and child. But it also raises an enduring question: When a ...READ»

Design Minded

Dan Pink examines some of the causes of the rise of the creative class.READ»

The Future of Design

From the $300,000 table to the $30 teakettle, design is dressing up the American way of life. READ»

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

Design Like a Surfer..and How Hyundai Caught the Wave

Over the past decade, driven by an ever-more sophisticated consumer, design has gone from being a bonus to being an essential ingredient in almost every market sector. Target earned itself a spot on Fast Company's 2008 Fast 50 ...READ»

• Designing From the First-Person Perspective
• Change-Agent Designs: They Inspire You to Do the Right Thing

A cuppa joe and a toaster, to go

This morning I had a really great cappuccino (and, I confess, a sinful sugared doughnut) out of a chic little cup while cruising the wares at the new Alessi store in Soho. Why should you care (except for a justifiable concern about ...READ»

Masters of Design

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»

Failure Is Glorious

Alberto Alessi transformed his family's ho-hum housewares business into a trendsetting design giant. His secret: walking the borderline between genius and failure.READ»

Obscura Digital's High Def Projections

A multi-media design lab out of San Francisco lights up companies such as GM, Google, and Oracle with mind-blowing projections. READ»

• The State of Mobile Advertising

How to Stay on the Move ... When the World Is Slowing Down

It's hard to remember a less-inviting time to have a great idea for a new company or to champion new ideas to change a big company. But leaders who think big aren't willing to downsize their ambitions -- they just have to work a little harder (and smarter). Here's some battle-tested advice on how to stay fast in slow times.READ»