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Epinions, Boing Boing Illustrates Rise in Transparent Brands

With access to more information than ever before, consumers can be savvier buyers. We have the power to make more informed decisions through online tools, such as Google. More importantly, we’re able to better trust...READ»

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One Smokin' Jacket

A hot new jacket built with sportcar-like engineering.READ»

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Social Entrepreneurship, the Creativity Economy, and Reciprocity: Investing in a Better World

  Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world. Echoing Green was ...READ»

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Why Pay Less?

Fast Company today kicks off a column called "Spare No Expense" and I'm already intrigued. The column speaks to the "budget crunching" issues faced by the Beatles, among others, as well as the audacious pricing model of Intelligencia ...READ»

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" Mom, look! Cool!"

Dylan's Candy Bar is heaven on earth for the sweet-tooth set.READ»

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Advertisers -- Issue 50

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Fast Talk: The Creative Impulse

Five young professionals in the fields of fashion, design, publishing, advertising, and architecture discuss the source of their creativity and what drives it.READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 46

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Advertisers in Issue 44

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Paypal accepted China online wholesale shop--cheerwholesale.com

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The Winter Olympics Uniforms: For God, Country, Fashion, and Sport

Appearances are everything when it comes to competing for your country. Joe Duffy gives the U.S. and Canadian Olympic uniforms a design review.READ»

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Military Boots – Look Fabulous in Military Boots

Military boots have become very appealing to people in the past few years. The military boots are quite functional and in many magazines whole collections are based on them. The combat boots have been used by soldiers in the past ages, as far back as the Roman army. READ»

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60 Seconds With Gary Baseman

For two decades, Gary Baseman has been priming the engines of an artistic movement he calls "pervasive art." How pervasive? To date, he's crafted art for TV, books, magazines, toys, ads, wrapping paper--and, most recently, for the animated film "Disney's Teacher's Pet", which arrived to critical raves (but middling ticket sales). Fast Company stepped into Baseman's offbeat world to get his take on dealing with the suits, Martha Stewart, and what's with all that gore.READ»

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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»

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Jewelry Designs Remain Bold and Bodacious in Spring 2009

 Many designer jewelry experts recommended stock-piling up on statement Juicy Jewelry in 2008, with anticipation that the trend would continue into 2009. While the focus last year was on choosing one signature piece and ...READ»

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Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the ...READ»

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Mercedes Reveals Successor to the Legendary Gullwing

The new car looks to be a worthy heir to what's widely considered to be the most beautiful car that Mercedes ever built, the 1955 300SL.READ»

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Barbie Turns 50, Celebrates by Having Some Work Done, Dropping Price to '59 Levels

For 50 years, a certain American blonde with the figure of a Playboy bunny, the hair-do of a USC cheerleader, and the arches of a Conde Nast editor has been channeling the zeitgeist and fashioning her wardrobe accordingly. She ...READ»

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The NFL Football Garments has sympathetic

Training hilarity, or should I rumor as we all submit to it as the NFL jersey, has been around for fifty (50) spree, there have been a crew of changes in the way the vocation is played, but has anyone sincerely paying deification as ...READ»

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Denim is fresh for spring

The time is packed with collaborations between high-rage designers and denim manufacturers, novel looks, new fabrications and super-stretch technology for a better fit and no flabby. Of the last, Red Engine stingy jeans are made ...READ»

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Can Contemporary Design Make Harris Tweed Cool Again?

Sherlock Holmes's creator wore it. So did your grandfather. Can contemporary fashion and design make Harris cool again?READ»

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Rush Hour

Russell Simmons, the godfather of hip-hop, has used street smarts and a platinum Rolodex to create a $300 million conglomerate. Now he's flexing his political muscle. Come inside the frenetic world of a modern entrepreneur.READ»

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Fast Forward 2005: <span>55-58</span>

The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.READ»

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Eco-Friendly Designs From New World Home

New World Home's eco-friendly designs combine time-honored style with modular, modern efficiency.READ»

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2010 Trend Report

What does it mean to Wave? How is crowdfunding revolutionizing the non-profit sector? What does it mean to make tangible impact? Since our 2009 trend report, Google Wave has turned the tech world on its head, Kiva revolutionized the non-profit business model and Kleiner Perkins is funding eco-innovation with the $500 million Green Fund. While...READ»