Topic: The United States Mint

The Butterfly Effect Hits Vending Machines

Earlier this week, the U.S. Mint announced plans to roll out new $1 coins, featuring each deceased president, at a rate of four per year. Mint officials hope this will a.) reacquaint Americans with some of our lesser-known presidents ...READ»

Obscura Digital Uses U.S. Mint for A Dazzling Light Show

Obscura Digital transforms building facades into multimedia light shows--and you have to check out their latest work, which used San Francisco's U.S. Mint as a backdrop The piece was sponsored by McAfee, ...READ»

Tim Burton, Eat Your Heart Out--and Watch This Castle Transform Before Your Eyes

Video of a mind-bending light projection by Apparati Effimeri, an Italian interaction-design firm. READ»

Coins With Missing Motto--A Way to Make Money?

Here's an amusing piece of information: The United States Mint released into circulation what is believed to be at least 50,000 new George Washington dollar coins that are missing their emblematic inscription of "In God We Trust." ...READ»

His People Are as Good as Gold

How Bill Daddio strives to build the nation's best police department.READ»

Can This Off-Site Be Saved?

Skip the PowerPoint. Forget the whiteboards and butcher paper. If you want to organize an off-site that is energetic and memorable -- an event that actually makes a difference -- then follow our seven-point guide.READ»

100th Anniversary of First Lincoln Penny

The first U.S. penny -- pure copper and featuring a woman with flowing hair -- was minted in 1792. But it wasn't until 1909, a century after Lincoln's birth, that the 16th prez's image made it to the coin. Now, to mark Honest ...READ»

Fast Pack 2000

Can hope scale up? Can change scale down? Can leadership grow from the grass roots? What's the meaning of "Dotcom Mania"? Some of the best brains in the Fast Company community convened on Nantucket for the roundtable of the year.READ»

Eight Amazing Interactive Light Shows

Nine Inch Nails' performs on a stunning interactive stage, a massive panel of lights that reacts to sound and the band's movements. Created by Montreal-based Moment Factory, it was picked as one of the best projects of 2008 by Creative Review (check out the making-of video). But Moment Factory isn't alone in making amazing light and music installations. READ»

Take the Cure

Inside the world's largest, most advanced pharmacy.READ»

DC's New Economy World: A Changing Landscape

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Mint Condition

Take a lesson in change from people who make change for a living. Philip Diehl and his colleagues at the U.S. Mint have transformed a clumsy bureaucracy into a fast-moving enterprise with great customer service and a cutting-edge presence on the Web.READ»

Historical Holidays IV

It's not been a bad week-plus for business innovation: On June 3, 1965, the first American space walk occurred. On June 4, 1626, Dutch colonist Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan. On June 6, 1934, the Securities and Exchange ...READ»

Genius at Change

Social entrepreneur Bill Strickland offers advice from the front lines of change -- San Francisco's nonprofit Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology.READ»

10 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Money

(and can't afford not to ask)



What are your chances of being audited? Could the economy function without bank machines? What's the one stock investment that you should have made when you were young? We answer 10 questions -- some serious, some lighthearted, all eye-opening -- about the stuff that makes the world go round.READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events July + August 2009

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