Topic: Rhode Island School of Design

Tiny Town: A Cabinet of Curiosities at the Rhode Island School of Design

Exploring a carefully curated and labeled collection of natural specimens at the Providence design school is like using an analog search engine that yields incredible real-life results.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

A Beautiful Find

A Providence shop selling the work of RISD graduates is sure to be the place to find that one-of-a-kind item.READ»

RISD Pride: Shepard Fairey's Show Opens in Boston

RISD alum Shepard Fairey's first solo show is opening this weekend at Boston's ICA and, as a RISD student, I can hardly wait to go. And not to simply see the Obama poster. (Although it would be fun to calculate just how many millions ...READ»

It's All-Feeling All the Time at Masters of Design Gala 2008

I attended the Annual Masters of Design (MOD) Gala that was held yesterday night at (appropriately) the recently opened Museum of Art and Design where Marcel Wanders, world-renowned Dutch designer, John Maeda, president of Rhode ...READ»

Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design

John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl

Simply the Best: Maeda’s the Man at RISD

John Maeda, MIT Media Lab guru, artist, designer, computer scientist, author – in short, a guy who comes about as close as it gets to being a Renaissance Man, circa 2007 --- was just named the new president of the Rhode Island ...READ»

John Maeda: Question Everything, But Nail Those Deliverables

He's just started as president of the Rhode Island School of Design, but we'd love to appoint designer John Maeda to another position we just invented: Official Ambassador Between Academia and Business. The man is firmly ...READ»

• Slideshow: The Vision of John Maeda
• Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design

The Kids Are Alright: RISD Students Strut Their Stuff at the ICFF

Students at the Rhode Island School of Design will show off their work at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, which convenes this Friday and runs through Tuesday. The exhibition, titled Immaterialize, ...READ»

Letter From the Editor of Fast Company: Shock Value

If I had thought ahead, I would have gotten a pedicure. A few weeks ago, I was at an executive retreat and found myself in a strategy session that took place in an open-air porch. All of us were sporting shorts (or skirts) and bare ...READ»

Good Intention and Rounding Errors: Occupational Hazards of Sustainable Design

An occupational hazard of working in sustainable design is the constant reminder that everything has impact. For everything in your field of view, materials and energy were wrestled from the ground and shipped around the earth in ...READ»

Masters of Design: A Jury of Their Peers

Introducing 11 jurors -- top leaders from universities, cultural institutions, and business -- who helped us select our 20 Masters of Design.READ»

What Is Next for Company Videos? 5 Thought-Provoking Links

I’ve recently bookmarked so many interesting sites on how companies use video I figured it’s time to open the vault and share a few of my favorite discoveries with you. I hope you’ll find something interesting, useful and ...READ»

100 Most Creative People in Business: #20 - Dawn Danby

Dawn Danby pops upover a Skype connection on the screen of my computer, holding up her laptop to the camera mounted in another. The machine in her hands shows a screen shot of Ecotect, a building-design program that represents the ...READ»

Contributors

Alex Ostroy Creating this month's Steve Jobs cover was "like a triathlon of image making," says Alex Ostroy, involving elements of sculpture, painting, and photographic lighting. Ostroy has been fascinated with the potential of ...READ»

Design Rules

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Design's Growth

Despite the growing demand for designers in the business world, there remains a dearth of qualified designers.READ»

Fast Company October 2008 Contributors

Jake Chessum When photographer Jake Chessum spotted Marcel Wanders's logo -- his face sporting a fake nose and the words "handle with love" -- on a roll of packing tape, he thought, Why not wrap Wanders up in it? ...READ»

Urban Outfitters

The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth.READ»

Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»

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»

• Infographic: The K-12 Educational Experience
• Ideo's Newest Design Projects
• 17 Career Lessons from IDEO's David Kelley

Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has built an empire of staggering proportions that nabbed him a record $100 million deal with Fox. And, with an innovative new series of animated shorts distributed by Google -- "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" -- he’s even teaching the search giant new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age?READ»

• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions
• The 6 Most Bizarre Family Guy Moments
• The 10 Most Controversial Family Guy Moments