Topic: Paris

McDonald's Design Heritage

The fast-food giant has built its success on ideas that bubble up from anywhere.READ»

• 2010 Masters of Design
• Super Style Me
• Where's Ronald McDonald?

Amtrak's $117 Billion Plan For High Speed Travel

It's a dream to make Joe Biden weep: trains that connect East Coast cities at 220 miles per hour. But it won't be finished until 2040. Hear that sound? That's Europe and Asia laughing. READ»

Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid

A third of the world's population earns $2.50 or less a day. This disparity takes my breath away, but there's a flip side to it: That's a market of more than five billion dollars a day. Add the next segment ($5 a day), and you see that the poorest people in the world spend more than ten billion dollars to live their lives.READ»

How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry

Nike's Mark Parker brings together extreme talents, whether they're basketball stars, tattooists, or designers obsessed with shoes.READ»

• Nike's All-Star Designer
• Kobe Talks Shoes
• Biomechanists at Play

SoBi Bike-Sharing Goes Completely Mobile

The new bike sharing network, piloting in New York City, raises the bar yet again.READ»

Trump Tea Bags: Taste the Status

Donald Trump branches into tea with his very own tea line.READ»

City of Bangkok: Social Unrest, Poverty, Dazzling Nightlife

Can we ignore violence and forgive urban vice in the name of the cool factor?READ»

David Harvey's Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg's New York

"New York? The whole damn place has been turned into a suburb," sneered David Harvey, startling a roomful of New Yorkers who prided themselves on the same things he derided: the makeover of the city's parks; the new network of bike ...READ»

Venezuelans Facing Jail Time for Tweeting About Banks

@leaoxford and @carmennares are facing up to 11 years in prison.READ»

Fast Blurbs: July/August 2010

Accessories When the sun is out in the summertime, the last thing you may want is some shade -- but your eyes need it. Proenza Schouler's 2010 sunglasses feature the same hardware as the brand's ultra-popular handbags, and they'll ...READ»

Looptworks and Upcycling: By the Numbers

60,000 pounds Average amount of excess fabric, trims, buttons, zippers, thread, and the like produced at a midsize garment factory each week. $18,000 What a rag sorter got for a pair of collectible Levi's at an auction in ...READ»

• Scrappy Couture

Neiman Marcus' CEO Karen Katz to Sell Luxury Through Social Media

Karen Katz currently runs Neiman Marcus's department stores and will take over as CEO of the entire corporation in October. The next step is to better exploit social media, to turn luxury retailer Neiman Marcus into an authority and an educator on fashion.READ»

Amnesty International Ad Sentences the Death Penalty to... Death

A commercial waxes eloquent about the injustices of capital punishment.READ»

Simon Trussell

Simon Trussell Exposure control The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time, and the shutter controls the length of time that the light hits the recording surface. Equivalent exposures can be made with a larger aperture and a faster shutter speed or a corresponding smaller aperture and with the shutter speed slowed down. READ»

Prison Valley Interactive Documentary Puts Anti-Social Behavior Into Social Media

Last month, a strange little project launched online. Prison Valley is an interactive, Web-based documentary with its own iPhone app, and a heavy social media presence. It's been produced in three languages, by two French guys with a ...READ»

American novelist Ernest Hemingway

Of America’s classic authors, the most influential on my life has been Ernest Hemingway. Characterized by understatement and direct, honest prose, Hemingway forged a unique place among American novelists. The peak of his ...READ»

Grant Achatz's Next Restaurant: Dinner and a Movie, Combined

Grant Achatz is a superstar. He's one of the few chefs, like Ferran Adria of the recently shuttered El Bulli or Wylie Dufresne of WD-50, for whom the term "molecular gastronomy" seems not so much inaccurate as inadequate. His ...READ»

Alex Bogusky's Bike-Sharing Baby, B-cycle, Launches in Denver

The country's first large-scale bike-sharing program debuts in the Mile High City.READ»

Jeff Koons Previews His BMW Design

The new car will be the 17th in BMW's fabled "Art Car" series.READ»

Three Ways To Sustain Your Innovation

In my research following the paths of successful innovations, I repeatedly see that the strategy that gets you there is not the strategy that keeps you there. It was Wal-Mart's focus on rural markets that got it to become the largest ...READ»

Biomimicry Design: The Answer May Be Zebra

 Our last blog was about the change makers co-working space housed at the BrowerCenter.org called The-Hub.net. Per its mission, it is here I met Cameron Matthews. Cameron is currently working on a green start ...READ»

Waiting for the Paris Metro? You Might Be in an Ikea Ad

Ikea takes over Paris subway stations with life-sized living rooms.READ»

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world? A beautifully illustrated video shows the causes.READ»

French Town Heats Swimming Pool With Sewage

Sometimes swimming in public pools can seem a little unsanitary, but one French town in the suburbs of Paris really puts the poo in pool. Sophie Deschiens, the Environment Councilwoman for the town of Levallois-Perret, was bugged by ...READ»

Object of Desire: An Urn That Displays the Age of the World

This is the stuff of life. We mean that literally: These urns by Paris designer Mathieu Lehanneur capture demographic data in enameled ceramic, with 99-year-olds at the top and newborns at the bottom.READ»

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